Latin Quotations 2
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- arma virumque cano
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VERGIL
(i sing of arms and a man)
*(first line of the Aneid) - Mens sana in corpore sano
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JUVENAL
(a sound mind in a sound body) - Labor omnia vincit
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VERGIL
(Labor conquers all)
*(motto of oklahoma) - Cogito, ergo sum
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DESCARTES
(I think, therefore I am) - Omnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori
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VERGIL
(Love conquers all; and let us yield to love) - Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
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VERGIL
(Perhaps sometime it will be pleasant to recall even these misfortunes) - Alea iacta est
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GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR
(the die is cast)
*(crossing the rubicon) - aere perennius
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HORACE
(more lasting than bronze; i.e. immortal) - exegi monumentum aere perennius
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HORACE
(I have raised a monument more durable than bronze)
*(first line of his ODES) - cedant arma togae
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CICERO
(Let the arms yield to the toga/peace)
*(motto of wyoming) - crescit eundo
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VERGIL
(it grows as it goes)
*(motto of New Mexico) - cum grano salis
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PLINY
(with a grain of salt) - delenda est Carthago
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CATO THE ELDER/CENSOR
(Carthage must be destroyed) - errare est humanum
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SENECA
(to err is human) - et tu, Brute!
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GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR
(and you, Brutus!) - festina lente
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SUETONIUS (attributing to Augustus
(make haste slowly) - fortes fortuna iuvat
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TERENCE
(fortune aids the brave) - O tempora, o mores!
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CICERO
(oh the times, oh the customs!) - rara avis
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JUVENAL
(a rare bird, rare specimen,)
(horace?) - tempus edax rerum
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OVID
(time which devours all things) - timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
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VERGIL
(fear the Greek even when they bring gifts) - veni, vidi, vici
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GAIUS JUIIUS CAESAR
(I came, I saw, I conquered)
*(after victory over Pharnaces) - Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres
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AUGUSTUS CAESAR
(All gaul is divided into three parts) - Hannibal ad portas
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CICERO
(Hannibal is at the gates) - ars longa, vita brevis
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HIPPOCRATES
(art is long, life s short) - de mortuis nil nisi bonum
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CHILON OF SPARTA
(say nothing but good of the dead) - salus populi suprema lex est
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CICERO
(let the welfare of the people be the supreme law)
*(motto of missouri) - ex uno disce omnes
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VERGIL
(from one example learn all) - mortituri te salutamus
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GLADIATORS
(we who are about to die, salute you) - qualis artifex pero
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NERO
(what an artist dies in me)
*(before he committed suicide [suetonius])