Latin Quotations 5
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- vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras
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VERGIL
(and the life fled, moaning, resentful, to the shades below) - non feram! non patiar! non sinam!
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CICERO
(I will not bear it! I will not allow it! I will not permit it!) - spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae
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OVID
(they wish as much to be see as to see-referring to beautiful people) - da mi basia mille, deinde centum...
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CATULLUS
(give me 1,000 kisses, then 100...) - ni mortalibus arduum est
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HORACE
(no height is to arduous for mortal men) - difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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CATULLUS
(it is difficult to suddenly lay aside a long lasting love [affair]) - vivamus, mea Lesbia atque amemus
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CATULLUS
(Lesbia mine, let's live and love.") - parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus
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HORACE
(all that work and nothing to show for it) - satis diu vel naturae vixi, vel gloriae
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CAESAR
(I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishment - tantum religio potuit suadere malorum
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LUCRETIUS
(religion has been able to lead men to commit so many evils) - di nos quasi pilas homines habent
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PLAUTUS
(the gods use us mortals as footballs) - homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto
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TERENCE
(I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien) - tnataene animis caelestibus irae
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VERGIL
(can a divine being be so pursuing in anger) - non bene olet, qui bene semper olet
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MARTIAL
(the man who is always well scented doesn't smell good) - vincere scis, Hannibal, Victoria uti nescis
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LIVY
(you know who to win a battle, Hannibal, but not how to use it) - dabit deus his quoque finem
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VERGIL
(God will grant an end even to these (troubles)) - nutato nomine, de te fabula narratur
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HORACE
(with the name changed, the story applies to you) - quid Romae faciam? mentiri nescio?
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JUVENAL
(What am I to do in Rome? I don't know how to lie) - cui bono?
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CICERO
(who stands to gain?) - voluptates commendat rarior usus
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JUVENAL
(all pleasure is no pleasure;"rare indulgence increases pleasures") - quo usque tandem abutere...patientia nostra
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CICERO
(how long, then, Catiline, will you abuse our patience - rident stolidi verba Latina
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OVID
(fools laugh at the latin language) - panem et circenses
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JUVENAL
(bread and circus games) - senectus ipsa morbus est
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TERENCE
(old age itself is a sickness) - tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem
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VERGIL
(so massive a task it was to found the Roman race) - nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus
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LIVY
(we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them) - deus est mortali iuvare mortalem
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PLINY THE ELDER
(for mortal to aid mortal-this is God) - nil mortalibus ardui est
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HORACE
(for men no height is too steep) - bibamus, moriendum est
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SENECA
(let's drink, death is inevitable) - fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
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JULIUS CAESAR
(as a rule men freely believe what they wish)