Latin Mottos 16-20
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- anno domini
- in the year of our lord
- caveat emptor
- let the buyer beware
- obiter dictum
- something said along the way
- possunt quia posse videntur
- they can because they think they can
- post meridiem
- after noon
- mirabile dictu
- wonderful to tell
- non prosequitur
- he does not prosecute
- ale iacta est
- the die is cast
- mens sana in corpore sano
- a sound mind in a sound body
- post scriptum
- written after
- nolo contendere
- i do not wish to contend
- a vinculo matrimoni
- from the bond of marriage
- CF
- compare
- circa
- about
- confer
- compare
- non compos mentis, non compos
- not sound or sane of mind
- VS
- against
- virtus praemium est optimum
- virtue is the best reward
- carmina morte carent
- songs do not die
- P.M.
- after noon
- pro tempore
- for the time
- cum grano salis
- with a grain of salt
- inter vivos
- between the living
- C
- about
- et alibi
- and elsewhere
- ad
- to
- sine qua non
- something indispensable
- ante meridiem
- before noon
- modus vivendi
- manner of living
- per se
- by itself
- nisi
- if not
- A.M.
- before noon
- habeas corpus
- thou shalt have the body
- A.D.
- in the year of our lord
- status quo
- sate in which
- ex post facto
- from what is done afterwards
- compos mentis
- sound or sane of mind
- sui iuris
- of one's own right
- nil homini certum est
- nothing is certain to man
- inter nos
- among us
- omnia praeclara rara
- all the best things are rare
- ET AL
- and elsewhere
- versus
- against
- nolle prosequi
- to be unwilling to prosecute