"All good things come to an end"

[ossian]

Can some erudite subscriber translate the titled aphorism into Latin? Many thanks in advance. Stu

[bibblebub]

Totus bonus res adeo an terminus

using http://www.translatio...from=English&to=Latin

[Quizmonster]

Click http://latinforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6696 for a whole raft of possibilities offered by people who actually seem to know what they are talking about. On-line translation sites as such are generally hopeless.

[MarkRae]

> Totus bonus res adeo an terminus

ROTFLMAO!!!!!


> using http://www.translatio...from=English&to=Latin

Ah, well what did you expect...?

[MarkRae]

This was originally "I see that all things come to an end", and is nothing more than a quote from the Prayer Book (Psalm 118:96). As such, it was originally in Latin anyway:

"Omnis consummationis vidi finem"

The extra word "good" somehow found it way into the expression over the ensuing centuries, during which time the phrase became proverbial.

[MarkRae]

> found it way

found *its* way - apologies