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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... facit: those gifts are always the most acceptable that owe their value to the giver (Ovid) accidit in puncto, et ... facit injuriam: the act of God does injury to no one actus Dei nemini nocet: the act of God brings harm to no one actus ...
... facit: those gifts are always the most acceptable that owe their value to the giver (Ovid) accidit in puncto, et ... facit injuriam: the act of God does injury to no one actus Dei nemini nocet: the act of God brings harm to no one actus ...
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... facit reum, nisi mens sit rea: the act does not make the person guilty, unless the mind be guilty ad auctores redit sceleris coacti culpa: the guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them (Seneca) ad calamitatem quilibet rumor ...
... facit reum, nisi mens sit rea: the act does not make the person guilty, unless the mind be guilty ad auctores redit sceleris coacti culpa: the guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them (Seneca) ad calamitatem quilibet rumor ...
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... facit: love's wounds are cured by love itself (Publilius Syrus) an nescis longas regibus esse manus?: do you not know that kings have long hands? (Ovid) an quisquam est alius liber, nisi ducere vitam cui licet, ut voluit?: is any man ...
... facit: love's wounds are cured by love itself (Publilius Syrus) an nescis longas regibus esse manus?: do you not know that kings have long hands? (Ovid) an quisquam est alius liber, nisi ducere vitam cui licet, ut voluit?: is any man ...
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... , empty of friends (Seneca) atrocitatis mansuetudo est remedium: gentleness is the remedy for cruelty (Phædrus) attendite vobis: attend to yourselves auctor pretiosa facit barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides auctor pretiosa 10.
... , empty of friends (Seneca) atrocitatis mansuetudo est remedium: gentleness is the remedy for cruelty (Phædrus) attendite vobis: attend to yourselves auctor pretiosa facit barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides auctor pretiosa 10.
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... facit barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides auctor pretiosa facit: the giver makes the gift precious (adapted from Ovid) audacter calumniare, semper aliquid hæret: hurl calumny boldly, some of it always sticks (Francis Bacon) audax ad omnia ...
... facit barbaris ex fortuna pendet fides auctor pretiosa facit: the giver makes the gift precious (adapted from Ovid) audacter calumniare, semper aliquid hæret: hurl calumny boldly, some of it always sticks (Francis Bacon) audax ad omnia ...
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