Breves IX
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- Carpe diem
- Seize the day (opportunity) (Horace)
- In vitro
- In a test tube (literally glass)
- Ergo bibamus
- Therefore, let us drink
- Sub sole nihil novi est
- There's nothing new under the sun
- Mens rea
- Guilty mind
- Optimis parentibus
- To my excellent parents. A common dedication in a book
- In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello
- In peace, like a wise man, he appropriately prepares for war
- Proxime accessit
- He/she came close
- Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit
- He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow. (Ovid)
- Omnia mutantur, nihil interit
- Everything changes, nothing perishes. (Ovid)
- Libra solidus denarius (L.S.D.)
- Pounds, shillings, pence
- Manus manum lavat
- One hand washes the other. The favor for the favor. (Petronius)
- Res ipsa loquitur
- The thing speaks for itself
- Facilius est multa facere quam diu
- It is easier to do many things than to do one for a long time. (Quintilianus)
- Argumentum ad hominem
- An argument against the man. Directing an argument against an opponent's character rather than the subject at hand
- Amor tussisque non celantur
- Love, and a cough, are not concealed. (Ovid)
- Qvi docent discit
- He who teaches, learns. (George Bernard Shaw)
- Clara pacta, boni amici
- Clear agreements, good friends
- Tolerabiles ineptiae
- Bearable absurdities
- Errare humanum est
- To err is human. / It is human to err. (Seneca)
- Lex talionis
- The law of revenge
- In terrorem
- As a warning; in order to terrify others
- Compos mentis
- Of sound mind (and judgement)
- In extremis
- In extremity
- Appareo Decet Nihil Munditia?
- Is It Not Nifty?
- Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt
- When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults
- Memento vivere
- A reminder of life (literally remember that you have to live)
- Arduum sane munus
- A truly arduous task
- Lupus in fabula
- The wolf in the tale (i.e. Speak of the wolf, and he will come) (Terence)
- Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia
- Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives. (Cicero)
- Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
- Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts. (Vergil)
- Ex ante
- Before the event, beforehand. (economics: based on prior assumptions)
- Pro opportunitate
- As circumstances allow
- Res melius evinissent cum coca
- Things go better with Coke
- Ne nimium
- Not too much
- Mea maxima culpa
- Through my very great fault
- Inter caecos regnat strabo
- Among blinds the squinting rules. (Erasmus)
- Occasio aegre offertur, facile amittitur
- Opportunity is offered with difficulty, lost with ease. (Publius Syrus)
- Bella detesta matribus
- Wars, the horror of mothers. (Horace)
- Pro re nata (Prn)
- For an occasion as it arises
- Certum est, quia impossibile
- It is certain, because it is impossible. (Tertullianus)
- Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi
- The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. (still waters run deep)
- Consummatum est
- It is completed
- Memoria in aeterna
- In everlasting remembrance
- Abutebaris modo subjunctivo denuo
- You've been misusing the subjunctive again
- In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas
- In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity
- Diligite justitiam, o judices terrae
- Cherish justice, o judges of the earth
- Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?
- What forbids a laughing man from telling the truth? (Horace)
- Felis qvi nihil debet
- Happy [is] he who owes nothing
- Illiud latine dici non potest
- You can't say that in Latin
- Tu quoque
- You likewise
- In medio tutissimus ibis
- In the middle of things you will go most safe. (Ovid)
- Mvtatis mvtandis
- The things that ought to have changed having been changed with the necessary substitutions having been made
- Repetitio est mater memoriae/ studiorum/
- Repetition is the mother of memory/studies
- Sub secreto
- In secret
- Vita brevis, ars lunga
- Life is short, art is long
- Quantum meruit
- As much as he/she deserved
- Amicus humani generis
- A friend of the human race (philanthropist)
- Omnia mihi lingua graeca sunt
- It's all Greek to me
- Audentes fortuna juvat
- Fortune favors the bold. (Virgil)
- Ab aeterno
- From the beginning of time
- Ex tempore
- Off the cuff, without preparation
- Ipso facto
- By the fact itself
- Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
- It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. (Publilius Syrus)
- Ad locum
- At the place
- Est modus in rebus
- There is a middle ground in things. (Horace)
- Qvalis artifex pereo
- Such an artist dies in me
- In re
- Refering to
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc
- After this, therefore because of this
- Utinam populus romanus unam cervicem haberet!
- If only the Roman people had one neck!
- Homo sum
- I am a man
- Sit vis nobiscum
- May the Force be with you
- Fama volat
- The rumour has wings. (Vergil)
- Finis coronat opus
- The ending crowns the work. (Ovid)
- Simplex munditiis
- Unaffected by manners. (Horace)
- Melitae amor
- Love of Malta
- Struit insidias lacrimis cum femina plorat
- When a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears. (Dionysius Cato)
- Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem
- As long as we are among humans, let us be humane. (Seneca)
- In banco
- On the bench
- Salve veritate
- Saving the truth
- Nvnc avt nvnqvam
- Now or never
- Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas
- the love of money is the root of all evil. Avarice is the problem, money itself is not evil
- Gramen artificiosum odi
- I hate Astroturf
- Impossibilium nulla obligatio est
- Nobody has any obligation to the impossible. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)
- Nvllvm qvod tetiget non ornavit
- He touched none he did not adorn
- Potius mori quam foedari
- rather to die than to be dishonoured (death before dishonour)
- Absit omen
- May the omen be absent. (may this not be an omen)
- Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi
- I don’t really know all that much Latin
- Opere citato (op. Cit.)
- In the work just quoted
- Nunc est bibendum
- Now we must drink. (Horace)
- Quae vide (Qqv)
- See these things
- Flagrante delicto
- Literally while the crime is blazing. Caught red
- Nemo me impune lacessit
- No one provokes me with impunity. (motto of the kings of Scotland)
- Unum necessarium
- The one necessary
- Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit
- Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdues both intelligence and skill. (Cicero)
- Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos!
- You infernal machine! Give me a beverage or give me my money back!
- Malum consilium quod mutari non potest
- It's a bad plan that can't be changed. (Publilius Syrus)
- Divide et impera
- Divide and conquer
- Consule planco
- In the consulship of Plancus (In the good old days) (Horace)
- Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?
- How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? (Cicero)
- Nemo risum praebuit, qui ex se coepit
- Nobody is laughed at, who laughs at himself. (Seneca)
- Ubi dubium ibi libertas
- Where there is doubt, there is freedom
- Tempus fugit
- Time flees
- Homo vitae commodatus non donatus est
- Man has been lent to life, not given. (Pubilius Syrus)
- Saepe stilum vertas
- May you often turn the stylus (You should make frequent corrections.)
- Nummus americanus
- Greenback. ($US)
- Scandalum magnatum
- Scandal of magnates
- Variorum
- Of various people
- Anno regni
- In the year of reign
- Dum spiramus tuebimur
- While we breathe, we shall defend
- Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor
- I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way
- Lumen naturale
- Natural light
- Et sequens (et seq.)
- And the following
- Qvi nescit dissimlare nescit regnare
- He who doesn't know how to lie doesn't know how to rule
- Id tibi praebet speciem lepidissimam!
- It looks great on you!
- Pavpertas omnivm artivm repertrix
- Poverty [is the] inventor of all the arts necessity is the mother of invention
- Urbanus et instructus
- A gentleman and a scholar
- Victurus te saluto
- He who is about to win salutes you
- Qui multum habet, plus cupit
- He who has much desires more. (Seneca)
- Regnat populus
- Let the People rule
- Ex post facto
- After the fact, or Retrospectively
- Hac lege
- with this law
- Navigare necesse est
- To sail is necessary
- Ex proprio motu
- Voluntarily
- Nihil declaro
- I have nothing to declare
- Floreat regina regina
- May it flourish. (The motto of the City of Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)
- Vestis virum reddit
- The clothes make the man. (Quintilianus)
- Verum et factum convertuntur
- The true and the made are interchangeable. One can know with certainty only what he have created himself
- A mari usque ad mare
- From sea to sea (Motto of Canada)
- Omne trium perfectum
- Everything that comes in threes is perfect
- Nullius in verba
- (Rely) on the words on no one. (Horace)
- Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio
- Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway
- De jure
- By law. According to law
- Exceptio probat regulam de rebus non exceptis
- An exception establishes the rule as to things not excepted
- Serva me, servabo te
- Save me and I will save you. (Petronius Arbiter)
- Sensu stricto, nullo metro compositum est
- Strictly speaking, it doesn't rhyme
- Alterum ictum faciam
- I'm going to take a mulligan
- Mens agitat molem
- The mind moves the matter. (Vergil)
- Persona (non) grata
- (un)welcome person
- Nemo liber est qui corpori servit
- No one is free who is a slave to his body
- Ite, misse est
- Go, the Mass is finished
- Fama crescit eundo
- The rumour grows as it goes. (Vergil)
- Sic
- Thus, just so
- Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?
- How do you get your hair to do that?
- Satis
- Enough
- Bonum vinum laetificat cor hominis
- Good wine gladdens a person's heart
- Virtus in medio stat
- Virtue stands in the middle
- Incipit
- Begin here
- Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit
- There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part. (Pliny the Younger)
- Stultorum infinitus est numerus
- Infinite is the number of fools. (Bible)
- Gnothe seauton (Greek)
- Know thyself
- Odium theologicum
- Theological hatred. (a special name for the hatred generated in theological disputes)
- Ad acta
- To archives. Not actual any more
- In spiritu et veritate
- In spirit and truth. (Versio Vulgata)
- Tacet
- Silence
- Mors ultima linea rerum est
- Death is everything's final limit. (Horace)
- Vincit omnia amor
- Love conquers all
- Nulla avarita sine poena est
- There is no avarice without penalty. (Seneca)
- Fallaces sunt rerum species
- The appearances of things are deceptive. (Seneca)
- Bis vivit qui bene vivit
- He lives twice who lives well
- Nil desperandum!
- Never despair! (Horace)
- Aspice, officio fungeris sine spe honoris amplioris
- Face it, you're stuck in a dead end job
- Ante prandium (A.p.)
- Before a meal
- Sunt pueri pueri, puerilia tractant
- Children are children, (therefore) children do childish things
- Pictor ignotus
- Painter unknown
- Do ut des
- I give so that you give back
- Ita erat quando hic adveni
- It was that way when I got here
- Quos amor verus tenuit, tenebit
- True love will hold on to those whom it has held. (Seneca)
- Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
- Modus vivendi
- Way of living
- Non uno die roma aedificata est
- Rome was not built in one day (either)
- Mater artium necessitas
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- Scio me nihil scire
- I know that I know nothing. Certain knowledge cannot be obtained. (Socrates)
- Placebo
- I will please. Medical expression for remedies with no medical effect, which improve one's medical condition only because one believes they do
- Ego et rex meus
- I and my King
- Incredibile dictu
- Incredible to say
- Liberate te ex inferis
- Save yourself from hell
- Rigor mortis
- The rigidity of death
- Cacoethes scribendi
- An insatiable urge to write. (Juvenal)
- Per varios usus artem experientia fecit
- Through different exercises practice has brought skill. (Manilius)
- Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum
- Tell me, O Muse, of the skillful man. (Livius Andronicus)
- Non est vivere sed valere vita est
- Life is not being alive but being well (life is more than just being alive)
- Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo
- My conscience means more to me than all speech. (Cicero)
- Ad vitam paramus
- We are preparing for life
- Pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant
- Children are children, (therefore) children do childish things
- Ab imo pectore
- From the bottom of the chest. (from the heart)
- Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter
- Your knowledge is nothing when no one else knows that you know it
- Ante
- Before
- Annus bisextus
- Leap year
- Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant!
- May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!
- Odi et amo
- I hate (her), and I love (her) (Catullus)
- Fide, non armis
- By faith, not arms
- Stultorum calami carbones moenia chartae
- Chalk is the pen of fools, walls (their) paper No Graffiti please. Showing that graffiti is nothing new
- Fac me cocleario vomere!
- Gag me with a spoon!
- Exit
- He/she goes out
- Melius tarde, quam nunquam
- Better late than never
- Sic itur ad astra
- Such is the path to the stars (i.e. Gain reputation) (Vergil)
- Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant
- May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy
- Qvod cibvs est aliis, aliis est wenenum
- What is food to some is poison to others. One man's meat is another poison