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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... God acer et ad palmæ per se cursurus honores, si tamen horteris fortius ibit equus: the spirited horse, which will of ... gods (Ovid) acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta: external actions indicate internal secrets acti labores ...
... God acer et ad palmæ per se cursurus honores, si tamen horteris fortius ibit equus: the spirited horse, which will of ... gods (Ovid) acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta: external actions indicate internal secrets acti labores ...
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... God's beloved are in want of nothing caret periculo, qui etiam (cum est) tutus cavet: he is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard (Publilius Syrus) carior est illis homo quam sibi: man is dearer to them (the gods) ...
... God's beloved are in want of nothing caret periculo, qui etiam (cum est) tutus cavet: he is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard (Publilius Syrus) carior est illis homo quam sibi: man is dearer to them (the gods) ...
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... God gives, envy injures us not, and when He does not give, labor avails not deos fortioribus adesse: the gods are said to aid the stronger (Tacitus) deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas: piety and holiness of life will propitiate the ...
... God gives, envy injures us not, and when He does not give, labor avails not deos fortioribus adesse: the gods are said to aid the stronger (Tacitus) deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas: piety and holiness of life will propitiate the ...
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... God is best known in not knowing him (St. Augustine) di irati laneos pedes habent: the gods, when angry, have their feet covered with wool di nos quasi pilas homines habent: the gods treat us mortals like so many balls to play with ...
... God is best known in not knowing him (St. Augustine) di irati laneos pedes habent: the gods, when angry, have their feet covered with wool di nos quasi pilas homines habent: the gods treat us mortals like so many balls to play with ...
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