Got a pretty big phoenix tattoo on my back...Looking for a good Latin saying to go with it, and I am not abt you use one of those Latin translators..Wondering if anyone here would be able to help me out with the proper saying and how it is written? Thank you|||Ex cinere surgemus = Out of ashes we will rise
Ex cinere surreximus = Out of ashes we have risen
Added: To quote from Lewis and Short:
"ex or 膿 (ex always before vowels, and elsewh. more freq. than e; e occurs 19 times, but ex 61 times, before consonants 鈥攂ut no rule can be given for the usage."
You must use 'ex' before a vowel; you may use 'e' before a consonant, but 'ex' is used more often. Writers who used 'ex' included Cicero, Julius Ceasar, Pliny, and many others.|||E cinere surgemus
E cinere surreximus
"Ex" should technically only come before a word that starts with a vowel, like "an" in English, though in post-classical Latin, it became more common to use ex all of the time.
Also, you could say "cineribus" rather than "cinere" if you were so inclined. "Cineribus" is plural, but the singular doesn't mean just one ash, still implies a pile.
Go with whichever combination of words fits best on your back.|||" Ex cinis cineris nos mos orior oriri ortus"
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