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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... 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 depends upon habit in the tender years (i.e., such are ...
... 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 depends upon habit in the tender years (i.e., such are ...
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... et fac quod vis: love and do what you will (adapted from St. Augustine) amabit sapiens, cupient cęteri: the wise man loves, the others are lecherous (Lucius Afranius) amans iratus multa mentitur amittit merito proprium amans iratus multa 7.
... et fac quod vis: love and do what you will (adapted from St. Augustine) amabit sapiens, cupient cęteri: the wise man loves, the others are lecherous (Lucius Afranius) amans iratus multa mentitur amittit merito proprium amans iratus multa 7.
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... multa mentitur amittit merito proprium amans iratus multa mentitur: an angry lover tells himself many lies (Publilius Syrus) amantes amentes: in love, in delirium (Terence) amantes sunt amentes: lovers are lunatics (Terence) amantium ...
... multa mentitur amittit merito proprium amans iratus multa mentitur: an angry lover tells himself many lies (Publilius Syrus) amantes amentes: in love, in delirium (Terence) amantes sunt amentes: lovers are lunatics (Terence) amantium ...
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... multa, avaritię omnia: poverty is in want of many things, avarice of everything (Publilius Syrus) det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus: the one who needs pardon should readily grant it (Seneca) Deus scitur melius nesciendo ...
... multa, avaritię omnia: poverty is in want of many things, avarice of everything (Publilius Syrus) det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus: the one who needs pardon should readily grant it (Seneca) Deus scitur melius nesciendo ...
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amor animus become believe better Cato Cicero comes death Deus earth everything evil facit faith fear fides fortune give glory gods greater Greek habet homines honor hope Horace human Juvenal king labor light live Livy Lord Lucan magna makes Martial mihi mind mors motto multa nature nemo neque never nihil nothing nunc nunquam omnibus once one’s Ovid peace person Plautus Pliny potest praise Publilius Syrus quę rebus rerum sępe Sallust semper Seneca sine strength Tacitus Terence things tibi true truth University veritas Virgil virtue vita vitę wise wish words