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- Labor omnia vincit
- Work conquers all things. (Virgil)
- Dira necessitas
- The dire necessity. (Horace)
- Data et accepta
- Expenditure and receipts
- Deus et natua non faciunt frusta
- God and nature do not work together in vain
- Fiat justitia (et ruat caelum)
- Let justice be done. (though the heavens fall)"
- Venienti occurrite morbo
- Meet the misfortune as it comes. (Persius)
- Pro rata
- In proportion to the value. (per hour for example)
- Nulli secundus
- Second to none
- Theatrum mundi
- The theatre of the world
- Latine loqui coactus sum
- I have this compulsion to speak Latin
- Ad libitum (ad lib)
- At one's pleasure
- Filioque
- and from the son
- Vi et armis
- By force and arms
- Cum laude
- With praise
- Tempus incognitum
- Time unknown
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Reduction to the absurd. (proving the truth of a proposition by proving the falsity of all its alternatives)
- Sobria inebrietas
- Sober intoxication
- Ut humiliter opinor
- In my humble opinion
- Vice
- In place of
- Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore
- I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting. (Cicero)
- Bis repetita placent
- The things that please are those that are asked for again and again. (Horace)
- Ultima ratio regum
- The final argument of kings
- Hoc tempore obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit
- In these days friends are won through flattery, the truth gives birth to hate. (Terence)
- Extinctus amabitur idem
- The same [hated] man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget. (Horace)
- Amicus verus est rara avis
- A true friend is a rare bird
- Fabas indulcet fames
- Hunger sweetens the beans, or hunger makes everything taste good!
- Quo vadis?
- Where are you going? / Whither goest thou?
- Tu autem
- You, also
- Senatus populusque romanus (SPQR)
- The Senate and the Roman people
- Per ardua ad astra
- Through difficulties to the stars
- Fac ut vivas
- Get a life
- Amor patriae
- Love of country
- De facto
- Something that is automatically accepted
- Cum laude magnum
- With great success
- Lares et penates
- Household gods
- Sub silentio
- In silence
- Pax
- Peace
- Ubi concordia, ibi victoria
- Where is the unity, there is the victory. (Publius Syrus)
- Deus vult!
- God wills it! (Slogan of the Crusades)
- Si tacuisses, philosophus manisses
- If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher. (Boethius)
- Petitio principii
- An assumption at the start
- Ultima Thule
- The most distant Thule
- Fortiter fideliter forsan feliciter
- Bravely, faithfully, perhaps successfully
- Nil admirari
- To admire nothing. (Horace)
- Vescere bracis meis
- Eat my shorts
- Braccae tuae aperiuntur
- Your fly is open
- Transit umbra, lux permanet
- Shadow passes, light remains (On a sun dial)
- Per annum
- Yearly
- A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi
- A precipice in front, wolves behind (between a rock and a hard place)
- Verba de futuro
- Words about the future
- Primus inter pares
- First among his equals
- Furnulum pani nolo
- I don't want a toaster
- Liberae sunt nostrae cogitationes
- Our thoughts are free. (Cicero)
- Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris
- Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's
- Ego
- Consciousness of one's own identity
- Cum homine de cane debeo congredi
- Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog
- Hoc est in votis
- This is in my prayers
- In se
- In itself
- Qui docet discit
- He who teaches learns
- Post meridiem (p.m.)
- After midday
- Cetera desunt
- the rest is missing
- Sane ego te vocavi. forsitan capedictum tuum desit
- I did call. Maybe your answering machine is broken
- Sona si latine loqueris
- Honk if you speak Latin
- Codex juris canonici
- Book of canon law
- Advocatus diaboli
- The devil's advocate
- Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur
- What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke's on you. (Horace)
- Graeca sunt, non leguntur
- It is Greek, you don't read that
- Ut dictum (Ut dict.)
- As directed
- Sine qua non
- Something/someone indispensable
- Sua cuique voluptas
- Everyone has his own pleasures
- Perscriptio in manibus tabellariorum est
- The check is in the mail
- Actus reus
- Wrongful act
- Ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora
- Eggs today are better than chickens tomorrow (a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush)
- Cui malo?
- Who suffers a detriment?
- Natura nihil fit in frustra
- Nature does nothing in vain
- Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
- I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head
- Schola cantorum
- School of singers
- Non sibi, sed patriae
- Not for you, but for the fatherland
- Sic semper tyrannis
- Thus always to tyrants
- Longo intervallo
- After a long gap
- Finis
- the end
- Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat
- All (hours) wound, the last kills. (inscription on solar clocks)
- Probitas laudatur et alget
- Honesty is praised and left in the cold. (Juvenal)
- Mare liberum
- An open sea
- De minimis
- With respect to trifles
- Olevm addere camino
- To pour fuel on the stove adding gasoline to a fire
- Est queadam fiere voluptas
- There is a certain pleasure in weeping. (Ovid)
- In infinitum
- To infinity; without end
- Tu fui, ego eris
- What you are, I was. What I am, you will be. (This is found on graves and burial sites)
- Honores mutant mores
- The honours change the customs. (Power corrupts)
- Pecvniate obedivnt omnia
- All things obey money. Money makes the world go round
- Ultra posse nemo obligatur
- No one is obligated beyond what he is able to do
- Da mihi sis cerevisiam dilutam
- I'll have a light beer
- Vivos voco, mortuos plango
- I call the living, I mourn the dead. (church bell inscription)
- Consensus audacium
- An agreement of rash men. (a conspiracy) (Cicero)
- Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet
- He who feared he would not succeed sat still. (For fear of failure, he did nothing.) (Horace)
- Nemo malus felix
- No bad man is lucky. (Juvenal)
- Si post fata venit gloria non propero
- If glory comes after death, I'm not in a hurry (if one must die to be recognised, I can wait)
- Nullus est instar domus
- There is no place like home
- In cavda venenvm
- In the tail [is the] poison. Watch out for what you don't see
- Nonne macescis?
- Have you lost weight?
- Dies irae
- The Day of Wrath, or Judgment Day
- Nemo propheta in patria sua
- No one is considered a prophet in his hometown/homeland
- Conlige suspectos semper habitos
- Round up the usual suspects
- Sui iuris
- Of one's own right
- Fiat
- Let it be done
- Haec olim meminisse ivvabit
- Time heals all things, i.e. Wounds, offenses
- Credidi me felem vidisse!
- I tought I taw a puddy tat!
- Respice finem
- Look to the end
- Quod est (Qe)
- Which is
- Coniecturalem artem esse medicinam
- Medicine is the art of guessing. (Aulus Cornelius Celsus)
- Palmam qui meruit ferat
- Let him who has earned it bear the reward
- Credo elvem etiam vivere
- I believe Elvis lives
- Duc, sequere, aut de via decede
- Lead, follow, or get out of the way
- Ex cathedra
- From the chair. With authority (without argumentation)
- Tetigisti acu
- You have hit the nail on the head. (Plautus)
- Quo usque tandem abutere, catilina, patientia nostra?
- How long will you abuse our patience, Catiline? (Cicero)
- Pro hac vice
- For this occaision
- Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
- A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. (Curtius Rufus)
- In medio stat virtus
- Virtue stands in the middle. Virtue is in the moderate, not the extreme position. (Horace)
- Astra non mentiuntur, sed astrologi bene mentiuntur de astris
- The stars never lie, but the astrologs lie about the stars
- Medice, cura te ipsum!
- Physician, heal thyself! (Versio Vulgata)
- E vestigio
- From where one stands
- Virgo intacta
- Intact virgin
- Annus horribilis
- A horrible year
- Cadit quaestio
- The question drops
- Arbiter elegantiae
- Judge in matters of taste
- Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta
- He who excuses himself, accuses himself (qui s'excuse, s'accuse)
- Nemine contradicente (Nem. Con.)
- With no one speaking in opposition. Unanimously
- Osculare pultem meam!
- Kiss my grits!
- Patria est communis omnium parens
- Our native land is the common parent of us all. (Cicero)
- Emeritus
- Honorary; by merit
- Quia natura mutari non potest idcirco verae amicitiae sempiternae sunt
- Since nature cannot change, true friendships are eternal. (Horace)
- Primum viveri deinde philosophari
- Live before you philosophize, or Leap before you look
- Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis
- We do not fear death, but the thought of death. (Seneca)
- Homines, dum docent, discunt
- Men learn while they teach. (Seneca)
- Crudelius est quam mori semper timere mortem
- It is more cruel to always fear death than to die. (Seneca)
- Cuius regio, eius religio
- He who rules, his religion
- Facile princeps
- Acknowledged leader
- Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet
- As loyal as she began, so she remains
- Virtvs probata florescit
- Manly excellence in trial flourished
- Fides quaerens intellectum
- Faith seeking understanding
- Eppur si muove
- But it does move... (Galileo)
- Corpus juris civilis
- The body of civil law
- Magister mundi sum!
- I am the master of the universe!
- Pro forma
- As a matter of formality
- Sic ad nauseam
- And so on to the point of causing nausea
- Magnum bonum
- a great good
- Rex non potest peccare
- The king cannot sin
- Numquam non paratus
- Never unprepared
- Auget largiendo
- He increases by giving liberally
- Eo nomine
- Under that name
- Factum est
- It is done
- Nil actum reputa si quid superest agendum
- Don't consider that anything has been done if anything is left to be done. (Lucan)
- Esto perpetua
- Let it be forever
- Die dulci freure
- Have a nice day
- Artium magister
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere
- To accept a favour is to sell freedom. (Publilius Syrus)
- Deus ex machina
- A contrived or artificial solution. (literally, 'a god from a machine')
- Patris est filius
- He is his father's son
- In pace
- In peace
- Lege atque lacrima
- Read 'em and weep
- Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur
- A true friend is discerned during an uncertain matter
- Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit
- Often it is not even advantageous to know what will be. (Cicero)
- Intelligenti pauca
- Few words suffice for he who understands
- Homo doctvs is se semper divitias habet
- A learned man always has wealth within himself
- Cura nihil aliud nisi ut valeas
- Pay attention to nothing except that you do well. (Cicero)
- Iniqua nunquam regna perpetuo manent
- Stern masters do not reign long. (Seneca Philosophus)
- Lectio brevior lectio potior
- The shortest reading is the more probable reading
- Negotium populo romano melius quam otium committi
- The Roman people understand work better than leisure
- Deus commodo muto consisto quem meus canis sententia existo
- Which, in a very ham
- Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione
- I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult
- Stare decisis
- To stand by things decided
- Non compos mentis
- Not in possession of one's senses
- Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat
- A wise man states as true nothing he does not prove (don't swear to anything you don't know firsthand)
- Faber est suae quisque fortunae
- Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. (Appius Claudius Caecus)
- Sequentia (seqq.)
- The following (ones)
- Quid Novi
- What's New?
- Magnus frater spectat te
- Big Brother is watching you
- Concordia res parvae crescent
- Work together to accomplish more
- Auxilio ab alto
- By help from on high
- Ira furor brevis est
- Anger is a brief insanity. (Horace)
- Ante litteram
- Before the letter
- Ab ovo usque ad mala
- From the egg right to the apples (From start to finish) (Horace)
- Beata virgo (Maria)
- The Blessed Virgin (Mary)
- Peccatum tacituritatis
- Sin of silence
- Deo gratias
- Thanks be to God
- Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest
- A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it
- Ergo
- Therefore
- Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt
- By watching, by doing, by counsulting well, these things yield all things prosperous. (Sallust)
- Casus belli
- An act used to justify war
- Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet
- May he love tomorrow who has never loved before
- Horror vacui
- Fear of empty places
- Lex fori
- The law of the forum (country)
- Vis medicatrix naturae
- The healing power of nature
- Occasio facit furem
- Opportunity makes a thief
- Ego spem pretio non emo
- I do not purchase hope for a price. (I do not buy a pig in a poke.)
- Omnia munda mundis
- Everything is pure to pure ones
- Lapsus memoriae
- A slip of the memory
- Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere
- If it ain't broke, don't fix it