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Oh there was actually a point to the wrong virgil translation. “Your bracelet,” she said. “ ‘Acheronta movebo.’ It doesn’t mean ‘Thus always to tyrants.’ That’s ‘sic semper tyrannis.’ This is from Virgil. ‘Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.’ ‘If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell.’ ”
Is there a deeper reason for the bad toddler’s french too?

Its so obvious that jonathan/sabastian really does want to create a dark demon race of shadowhunters lol how is clary so naive and gullible. I hate stupid protagonists

“Nous avions rendez-vous?”

Excuse me? Whats happening this is all so annoying

“You got a euro for returning them”
They dont use euros in the czech republic? How are authors reasear hing their books so badly? How are editors and publishers not catching these mistakes? Why not do a 5 second google search. Completely takes me out of the story when authors do ts

If u wanna use latin in your books learn latin? Or at least look up translations? “Acheronta movebo. Boldly she put her hand on his wrist. “What does this mean?”
He looked at her hand where it touched the silver on his wrist. “It means ‘Thus always to tyrants.”
it does not? It means I shall raise hell/the underwold. It’s by virgil and the whole quote is if i cant move the heavens i shall raise hell.