Important Translations

Since some of us obsessives wonder exactly what they're saying or showing us at various points throughout the movie.

To begin: the chant:

"Ab ovo, in toto,
Nil desperandum,
Sine die."

In the most literal sense:

"From the beginning, completely,
Never despair
Without a day."

In essence:

"We have come full circle,
And now we lose our despair,
For now we embrace the day."

Also, the motto on the McAshton crest (the translation of which (and part of the subsequent notes) I found on an Ask somewhere):

"Sola Animo At Maniforti" translates to "Alone in spirit but with strong hand" ("alone" is feminine while "spirit" is masculine, and given the motto is first seen on a woman trying to help a vampire (possible sympathizer?), it can be reasonable to assume that she, or an ancestor, behaves as both (Boudicca, anyone?)).

And "Caveat Vamptor", translated in-universe as "Let the vampire beware" by Rudolph. This little bit implies that vampires and certain humans have been at war/interacting for centuries, possibly millennia, long enough for curses against them to be developed and perfected by three hundred years prior to the events of the movie. This again leads me (at least) to wonder exactly how long vampires have been around and who (or what) created them, but there is absolutely no way of knowing for sure (unless the books have any sort of clue, but I'm no closer to reading them than I was a few weeks ago).