Dulce bellum inexpertis.

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Journal by Michael Woodhams on Tuesday September 06, 2005 @01:12AM

Sweet, pretty, inexperienced.

But the cases and plurality are all over the place. "Dulce" and "bellum" can be nouns instead of adjectives, but then "bellum" becomes "war".

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by DisownedSky ( 905171 ) * writes:

I thought "bellum" meant "war", as in "ante bellum" meaning "before the war." Thus the root of the word "belligerent."
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  by Michael Woodhams ( 112247 ) writes:
  
  They are homonyms. "Bellum" can be an adjective meaning "pretty" or a noun meaning "war". Some inflexions are nonambigous, such as bellae (adjective) or bellare (verb).
  
  http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?bel lum [nd.edu]

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