I'm hoping someone can help me impress my boss. He randomly asked if I could find the Latin translation and source of the phrase "To think about for a long time." He suggested maybe Cassius Dio or Gerundes (sp?). He was not 100% sure of himself either. The closest I could find is Cato's On Agriculture (diu cogitare). I took Latin in HS but my job is in no way related to that. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
diu cogitare is a perfectly adequate translation of the phrase, but tracking down the source of the phrase means tracing a specific phrase that triggered a specific usage in English. Is this phrase proverbial where you come from, or part of a longer quotation?
"Gerundes" doesn't resemble any ancient author I've heard of, by the way, and I've no idea what that might be a misremembering of. The Latin source certainly wouldn't be Cassius Dio, who wrote in Greek.
I don't want to discourage discussion or anything, but you may want to try r/linguistics