Legend has it that Johnny Ringo was an educated man. (Not so: a story for later.) But so he is depicted over and over. In this scene<\/a> from Tombstone<\/em>, the best of the movies about Doc Holliday and the shoot-out at the O. K. Corral, Ringo trades Latinisms with the gun-totin' dentist, who was indeed an educated man and a fearless and deadly gunslinger to boot, his fearlessness a function of his 'consumption.' <\/span><\/p>\n I don't mean his consumption of spirits, but his tuberculosis. His was the courage of an embittered man, close to death.<\/span><\/p>\n The translations in the video clip leave something to be desired. Age quod agis<\/em> gets translated as 'do what you do best'; the literal meaning, however, is do what you are doing<\/em>. Age<\/em> is in the imperative mood; quod<\/em> is 'what'; agis<\/em> is the second person singular present tense of agere<\/em> and means: 'you do' or 'you are doing.'<\/span><\/p>\n Curiously, Doc Holliday did not die with his boots on. He died in bed.<\/span><\/p>\n