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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... honor through heroic acts of valor. In fact, Honos or Honor meant everything to the Romans and strongly shaped the Roman ethos, as did Fides (faith) and Magnanimitas (greatness of spirit). “Facte nova virtute, puer; sic itur ad astra ...
... honor through heroic acts of valor. In fact, Honos or Honor meant everything to the Romans and strongly shaped the Roman ethos, as did Fides (faith) and Magnanimitas (greatness of spirit). “Facte nova virtute, puer; sic itur ad astra ...
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... honor requires of him (Seneca) ab inopia ad virtutem obsepta est via: the way from poverty to virtue is an obstructed one ab uno disce omnes: from one learn all (i.e., from one sample we judge the rest) (Virgil) abeunt studia in mores ...
... honor requires of him (Seneca) ab inopia ad virtutem obsepta est via: the way from poverty to virtue is an obstructed one ab uno disce omnes: from one learn all (i.e., from one sample we judge the rest) (Virgil) abeunt studia in mores ...
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... honor to combine justice with law adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu: it is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing (Quintilian) adeo in teneris consuescere multum est: so much ...
... honor to combine justice with law adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu: it is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing (Quintilian) adeo in teneris consuescere multum est: so much ...
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