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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... hope. Four centuries ago, Sir Francis Bacon published De Sapientia Veterum (On the Wisdom of the Ancients), a delightful book of Classical myths and fables in which he sought to recover examples of “humane wisedome” from antiquity that ...
... hope. Four centuries ago, Sir Francis Bacon published De Sapientia Veterum (On the Wisdom of the Ancients), a delightful book of Classical myths and fables in which he sought to recover examples of “humane wisedome” from antiquity that ...
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... hope (Cicero) æmulatio æmulationem parit: emulation begets emulation æqua lege necessitas, sortitur insignes et imos: necessity apportions impartiality to the high and the low (Horace) æqua tellus pauperi recluditur regumque pueris: the ...
... hope (Cicero) æmulatio æmulationem parit: emulation begets emulation æqua lege necessitas, sortitur insignes et imos: necessity apportions impartiality to the high and the low (Horace) æqua tellus pauperi recluditur regumque pueris: the ...
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... hope that the decrees of Heaven can bend to prayer (Virgil) desubito famam tollunt si quam solam videre in via: the moment they see a woman alone in the street, they cry scandal (Nævius) desunt inopiæ multa, avaritiæ omnia: poverty is ...
... hope that the decrees of Heaven can bend to prayer (Virgil) desubito famam tollunt si quam solam videre in via: the moment they see a woman alone in the street, they cry scandal (Nævius) desunt inopiæ multa, avaritiæ omnia: poverty is ...
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... hope (Seneca) dubitando ad veritatem pervenimus: by way of doubting we arrive at the truth (Cicero) ducis ingenium, res adversæ nudare solent, celare secundæ: disasters are wont to reveal the abilities of a leader, good fortune to ...
... hope (Seneca) dubitando ad veritatem pervenimus: by way of doubting we arrive at the truth (Cicero) ducis ingenium, res adversæ nudare solent, celare secundæ: disasters are wont to reveal the abilities of a leader, good fortune to ...
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