The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and SayingsThe Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations completes our enormously successful and award-winning Latin for the Illiterati series of volumes, rounding off the trilogy with a comprehensive treasury of classic Latin quotations, mottoes, proverbs, and maxims collected from the worlds of philosophy, rhetoric, politics, science, religion, literature, drama, poetics, and war.Distinguished by the combination of user-friendliness and comprehensiveness, this book will provide students, scholars, and general readers with an eminently browsable resource that is as useful as it is enjoyable. |
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... (Tacitus) acerrimus ex omnibus nostris sensibus est sensus videndi: the keenest of all our senses is the sense of sight (Cicero) acribus initiis, incurioso fine: alert (or energetic) at the beginning, careless (or negligent) at the end ...
... (Tacitus) acerrimus ex omnibus nostris sensibus est sensus videndi: the keenest of all our senses is the sense of sight (Cicero) acribus initiis, incurioso fine: alert (or energetic) at the beginning, careless (or negligent) at the end ...
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... (Tacitus) asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum: nothing is more harsh (or galling) than a low man raised to a high position (Claudian) aspirat primo Fortuna labori: Fortune smiles upon our first effort (Virgil) assiduus usus uni ...
... (Tacitus) asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum: nothing is more harsh (or galling) than a low man raised to a high position (Claudian) aspirat primo Fortuna labori: Fortune smiles upon our first effort (Virgil) assiduus usus uni ...
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... (Tacitus) bonus animus in mala re dimidium est mali: good courage in a bad circumstance is half of the evil overcome (Plautus) bonus atque fidus judex honestum prætulit utili: a good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the ...
... (Tacitus) bonus animus in mala re dimidium est mali: good courage in a bad circumstance is half of the evil overcome (Plautus) bonus atque fidus judex honestum prætulit utili: a good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the ...
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... Tacitus) corpus non animæ domicilium sed diversum est: the body is not the abode of the soul but its enemy corpus onustum hesternis vitiis animum quoque prægravat una: the body, loaded with yesterday's excess, also bears down the mind ...
... Tacitus) corpus non animæ domicilium sed diversum est: the body is not the abode of the soul but its enemy corpus onustum hesternis vitiis animum quoque prægravat una: the body, loaded with yesterday's excess, also bears down the mind ...
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... (Tacitus) cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus?: why should a tremor seize the limbs before the trumpet sounds? (Virgil) cur omnium fit culpa, paucorum scelus?: why should the wickedness of a few be laid to the account of all? cura facit ...
... (Tacitus) cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus?: why should a tremor seize the limbs before the trumpet sounds? (Virgil) cur omnium fit culpa, paucorum scelus?: why should the wickedness of a few be laid to the account of all? cura facit ...
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