Breves VII
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- Olevm perdisti
- You have lost oil you've wasted your time on this criticism for a misallocation of resources
- Audiatur et altera pars!
- Let us hear the opposite side!
- Ego me bene habeo
- With me all is well. (last words) (Burrus)
- Haud ignota loquor
- I say things that are known
- Frangar non flectar
- I am broken, I am not deflected
- Ille mi par esse deo videtur
- He seems to me to be equal to a god. (Catullus)
- Domine, dirige nos
- Lord, direct us
- Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit
- To boldly go where no man has gone before
- Quod natura non sunt turpia
- What is natural cannot be bad
- Omnes una manet nox
- The same night awaits us all. (Horace)
- Numquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit
- Never does nature say one thing and wisdom say another
- Licentia poetica
- Poetic licence. (Seneca)
- Mala fide
- In bad faith (something which is done fraudulently)
- Si vis amari, ama
- If you wish to be loved, love. (Seneca)
- Cura ut valeas
- Take care
- In vino veritas
- The truth is in wine. A drunk person tells the truth
- Honor virutis preamium
- Honour is the reward of virtue
- Cave canem, te necet lingendo
- Beware of the dog, he may lick you to death
- Aqua vitae
- Water of life (brandy)
- Nihil
- Nothing
- De integro
- Repeat again from the start
- Qui habet aures audiendi audiat
- He who has ears, let him understand how to listen
- Natura abhorret a vacua
- Nature abhors a vacuum
- Un idea perplexi na
- The idea is strange to us
- Alis volat propriis
- He flies by his own wings
- In pari materia
- Of like kind
- Obesa cantavit
- The fat lady has sung
- Non sequitur
- It does not follow
- Dominus tecum
- May the Lord be with you (Singular)
- Omnes deteriores svmvs licentia
- Too much freedom debases us
- Licentia liquendi
- Liberty of speaking
- In silico
- By means of a computer simulation
- Nil sine numine
- Nothing without providence
- Semper idem
- Always the same thing. (Cicero)
- in posse
- In possibility
- Numquam se minus solum quam cum solus esset
- You are never so little alone as when you are alone. (Cicero)
- Timor mortis conturbat me
- The fear of death confounds me
- Cave
- Beware!
- In saecvla saecvlorvm
- For ages of ages forever
- Inter partes
- Made between two parties
- Genus irritabile vatum
- The irritable race of poets. (Horace)
- Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter
- Necessity is the mother of all invention
- Pari passu
- With equal step
- Rem tene, verba sequentur
- Keep to the subject and the words will follow. (Cato Senior)
- Pinxit
- He/she painted it
- Quater in die (Q.I.D)
- Take four times a day
- Vis consili expers mole ruit sua
- Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight. (Discretion is the better part of valor) (Horace)
- Et cetera/etcetera (etc.)
- And the rest.
- Estne tibi forte magna feles fulva et planissima?
- Do you by chance happen to own a large, yellowish, very flat cat?
- Vita luna!
- Crazy life!
- Qua
- In the capacity of
- Hostis hvmani generis
- Enemy of the human race
- Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire
- I came, I saw, I want to go home
- Summam scrutemur
- Let's look at the bottom line
- Salve (plural salvete)
- Hail; welcome
- Scribere est agere
- To write is to act
- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
- Anything said in Latin sounds profound
- Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
- (At a barbeque) Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?
- Loco citato (Lc)
- In the passage just quoted
- Koming soon
- Sorry, bad joke
- Escariorium lavator
- Dishwashing machine
- Mellita, domi adsum
- Honey, I'm home
- Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
- Men readily believe what they want to believe. (Caesar)
- In virtute sunt multi ascensus
- There are many degrees in excellence. (Cicero)
- Diabolus fecit, ut id facerem!
- The devil made me do it!
- Uti foro
- To play the market
- Sequens mirabitur aetas
- The following age will be amazed
- In transitu
- In passing, on the way
- Medicus curat, natura sanat
- The physician treats, nature cures
- Nemo autem regere potest nisi qui et regi
- Moreover, there is no one who can rule unless he can be ruled. (Seneca)
- In omnia paratus
- Prepared for all things
- Libertas inaestimabilis res est
- Liberty is a thing beyond all price. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)
- In statu quo
- In the same state
- Curriculum vitae
- A summary of a person's career
- Pone ubi sol non lucet!
- Put it where the sun don't shine!
- Veritas odit moras
- Truth hates delay. (Seneca)
- In vinculis etiam audax
- In chains yet still bold (free)
- Non sum qualis eram
- I am not what / of what sort I was (I'm not what I used to be.)
- Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt
- You know, the Romans invented the art of love
- In memoriam
- To the memory of
- Splendide mendax
- Splendidly false. (Horace)
- Fortunatus sum! Pila mea de gramine horrido modo in pratum lene recta volvit!
- Isn't that lucky! My ball just rolled out of the rough and onto the fairway!
- Adeste fideles
- Be present, faithful ones
- Dum vivimus, vivamus
- While we live, let us live (Epicurean philosophy)
- Aurora Musis amica
- Dawn is friend of the muses. (Early bird catches the worm.)
- Mens sibi conscia recti
- A mind conscious of its rectitude
- Terra nullius
- Uninhabited land
- Minus habens
- Absentminded
- Plusque minusque
- More or less
- Acta est fabula, plaudite!
- The play is over, applaud! (Said to have been emperor Augustus' last words)
- Hoc est vivere bis vita posse priore frvi
- To live twice is to make useful profit from one's past. Experience is the best teacher, so learn from it
- Exempli gratia (e.g)
- For the sake of example
- Experientia docet stultos
- Experience teaches fools
- Nvnc dimittis
- Now let [thy servant] depart
- Inter se
- Amongst themselves
- Nihil obstat
- Nothing stands in the way
- Eheu fugaces labuntur anni
- Alas, the fleeting years slip by. (Horace)
- Fac ut nemo me vocet
- Hold my calls
- Absum!
- I'm outta here!
- Uberrimae fidei
- Of the utmost good faith
- Cotidiana vilescunt
- Familiarity breeds contempt
- In dentibus anticis frustrum magnum spiniciae habes
- You have a big piece of spinach in your front teeth
- Quo signo nata es?
- What's your sign?
- Luctor et emergo
- I struggle but I'll survive
- In limine
- On the threshold, at the very outset
- Quaque nocte (Qn)
- Every night
- Fortes fortuna iuvat
- fortune favours the brave
- Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
- Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?
- Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus
- Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries
- Quomodo vales
- How are you?
- Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
- God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
- Virus
- Poison or slime
- Alma mater
- Nourishing mother. (One's old school or university)
- Per angusta in augusta
- Through difficulties to great things
- Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis
- I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
- Timendi causa est nescire
- Ignorance is the cause of fear. (Seneca)
- Ibidem (Ib.)
- In the same place. (in a book)
- Amicus curiae
- Friend of the court
- Per contra
- On the contrary
- Dramatis personae
- Characters of the play
- Epistula non erubescit
- A letter doesn't blush. (Cicero)
- Mortvi non mordant
- Dead me don't bite; Dead men tell no tale
- Nota bene (Nb.)
- Note well. Observe carefully
- Quid nunc
- What now?! (a nosy busybody)
- In propria persona
- In person
- De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum
- Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen (Thomas á Kempis)
- Pendente lite
- While a suit is pending
- Puri sermonis amator
- A lover of pure speech. (Terence)
- Aegroto, dum anima est, spes esse dicitur
- It is said that for a sick man, there is hope as long as there is life
- Non sibi sed suis
- Not for one's self but for one's people
- In excelsis
- In the highest
- Quo fas et gloria docunt
- Where right and glory lead
- Deo optimo maximo
- To God, the Best, the Greatest
- Amor platonicus
- Platonic love
- Uva uvam videndo varia fit
- A grape changes color in seeing another grape. A bad/good friend makes you a bad/good person
- Summa cum laude
- With highest honor
- Ubi spiritus est cantus est
- Where there is spirit there is song
- Non sum pisces
- I am not a fish
- Animus facit nobilem
- The spirit makes (human) noble
- Nemo saltat sobrius
- No man dances sober
- Gloria patri
- Glory to the Father
- Requiescat in pace
- Let him/her rest in peace. (May he/she rest in peace)
- Me iudice
- I being judge; in my judgement
- Insula gilliganis
- Gilligan's Island
- Arguendo
- For the sake of argument
- Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua
- The only good language is a dead language
- A cruce salus
- From the cross comes salvation
- Pistrix! Pistrix!
- Shark! Shark!
- Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare
- Well, if you don't understand plain Latin, I'm not going to dirty my hands on you
- Mendacem memorem esse oportet
- A liar needs a good memory. (Quintilianus)
- In alio pediculum, in te ricinum non vides
- You see a louse on someone else, but not a tick on yourself. (Petronius)
- Semper ubi sub ubi ubique
- Always wear underwear everywhere
- Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit
- Not much worth is an example that solves one quarrel with another. (Horace)
- Beatae memoriae
- Of blessed memory
- Fama semper vivat
- May his/her fame last forever
- Post obitum
- After death
- Sui generis
- Of one's own kind
- Imperator/Imperatrix (Imp.)
- Emperor/Empress
- Sit tibi terra levis
- May the earth be light upon you
- Oratvr fit, poeta nascitvr
- An orator is made [but] a poet is born
- Ab incunabulis
- From the cradle
- Re vera, potas bene
- Say, you sure are drinking a lot
- Gratia placenti
- For the sake of pleasing
- Veritas Lux Mea
- The truth enlightens me / The truth is my light
- Vagans
- Cruising
- Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis
- Unless you will have believed, you will not understand. (St. Augustine)
- Qui scribit bis legit
- He who writes reads twice
- Sic transit gloria mundi
- So passes the glory of the world
- Amor est vitae essentia
- Love is the essence of life. (Robert B. Mackay)
- Post tenebras lux
- After the darkness, light
- Omne initium est difficile
- Every beginning is difficult
- Caelum videre iussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus
- He bid them look at the sky and lift their faces to the stars. (Ovid)
- Ante meridiem (a.m.)
- Before midday
- Pax tecum
- May peace be with you (Singular)
- Dies natalis
- Birthday
- Aetatis (aet.)
- Age
- De minimis non curat praetor
- The authority or king, or law does not care about trivial things
- Vide ut supra
- See the above
- O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! Hem!
- Oh! More! Go on! Yes! Ooh! Ummm!
- Gaudeamus igitur (iuvenes dum sumus)
- Therefore, let us rejoice. (while we are young)
- Tintinnuntius meus sonat!
- There goes my beeper!
- Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus interpres
- As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word. (Horace)
- Onus probandi
- The burden of proof
- Ius civile
- Civil law
- Res judicata
- Thing already judged upon
- Latro! fremo!
- Woof woof! Grrrr!
- Id est (i.e.)
- That is to say
- Numerus clausus
- A restricted number
- In aere aedificare
- Build (castles) in the air. (St. Augustine)
- Nemine dissentiente (Nem. Diss.)
- With no one disagreeing
- Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur
- Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out
- Feles mala!
- Bad kitty!
- Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes
- Let us improve life through science and art. (Vergil)
- Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas
- It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. (Pliny the Younger)
- Cursum perficio
- My journey is over, or I finish my journey
- In media res
- In or into the middle of a sequence of events. (Horace)
- Ex mea sententia
- In my opinion
- Lex loci
- The law of the place
- Maxima debetur puero reverentia
- We owe the greatest respect to a child