Latin motto translation

[Jenni5]

I need a translation for the Latin motto "Utile Dulci" directly translated it means "useful sweetly" which as this relates to a college can't be quite right! can anyone help?

[brachiopod]

It means 'useful and agreeable' as in the phrase;

"omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci"

'He has gained every point who has mixed the useful and the agreeable'

or in a less accurate translation, but more flowing style;

'Who mixes the useful and the agreeable, gains every point'

[Quizmonster]

To add a little to Brachiopod's response - and because you say it is a college motto - it might possibly be loosely translated as: "Knowledge is useful if it produces happiness."

[Peter Pedant]

Cool translation - do you have a reference for it?

I think the college's motto has to come from this quote, because utile is accusative and dulci is dative, and misceo to mix takes an accusative and dative. (But I am willing to corrected by any Latinist lurking out there)

Which college?

[Peter Pedant]

oh, its a hexameter from Horace -but I am not sure which - he wrote quite a few.....