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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... live honorably addere legi justitiam decus: it is to one's 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 ...
... live honorably addere legi justitiam decus: it is to one's 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 ...
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... live in peace audiatur et altera pars: let the other side also have a hearing (Seneca) audire est operæ pretium: it is worth your while to hear (Horace) auri sacra fames quid non?: what does the accursed greed for gold not drive men to ...
... live in peace audiatur et altera pars: let the other side also have a hearing (Seneca) audire est operæ pretium: it is worth your while to hear (Horace) auri sacra fames quid non?: what does the accursed greed for gold not drive men to ...
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... lives well who lives peacefully bene qui sedulo: he lives well who lives industriously beneficia dare qui nescit, injuste petit: the one who knows not how to confer a kindness has not the right to ask any for himself beneficia plura ...
... lives well who lives peacefully bene qui sedulo: he lives well who lives industriously beneficia dare qui nescit, injuste petit: the one who knows not how to confer a kindness has not the right to ask any for himself beneficia plura ...
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... live among men, let us cherish humanity (Seneca) dum lego, assentior: whilst I read, I give assent (Cicero) dum loquor, hora fugit: while I am speaking, time flies (Ovid) dum potes vive: live while you can dum singuli pugnant, universi ...
... live among men, let us cherish humanity (Seneca) dum lego, assentior: whilst I read, I give assent (Cicero) dum loquor, hora fugit: while I am speaking, time flies (Ovid) dum potes vive: live while you can dum singuli pugnant, universi ...
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... live by desperate means) (Terence) e labore dulcedo: pleasure arises out of labor e multis paleis paulum fructus collegi: from much chaff I have gathered little grain e tardegradis asinis equus non prodiit: the horse is not the progeny ...
... live by desperate means) (Terence) e labore dulcedo: pleasure arises out of labor e multis paleis paulum fructus collegi: from much chaff I have gathered little grain e tardegradis asinis equus non prodiit: the horse is not the progeny ...
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