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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... persons whose wisdom and humor spoke to their own time, but speak to ours as well. Second, because this collection draws from a wide range of sources in the Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, and later periods, there exist noticeable ...
... persons whose wisdom and humor spoke to their own time, but speak to ours as well. Second, because this collection draws from a wide range of sources in the Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, and later periods, there exist noticeable ...
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... person actis ævum implet, non segnibus annis: his lifetime is full of deeds, not of indolent years (Ovid) actum ne agas: do not do what is done (i.e., leave well enough alone) (Terence and Cicero) actus Dei nemini facit injuriam: the ...
... person actis ævum implet, non segnibus annis: his lifetime is full of deeds, not of indolent years (Ovid) actum ne agas: do not do what is done (i.e., leave well enough alone) (Terence and Cicero) actus Dei nemini facit injuriam: the ...
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... person guilty, unless the mind be guilty ad auctores redit sceleris coacti culpa: the guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them (Seneca) ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet: any rumor is sufficient against calamity (i.e. ...
... person guilty, unless the mind be guilty ad auctores redit sceleris coacti culpa: the guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them (Seneca) ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet: any rumor is sufficient against calamity (i.e. ...
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... person is the intention of the written instrument animus tamen omnia vincit; ille etiam vires corpus habere facit: courage conquers all things; it even gives strength to the body (Ovid) annus inceptus habetur pro completo: a year begun ...
... person is the intention of the written instrument animus tamen omnia vincit; ille etiam vires corpus habere facit: courage conquers all things; it even gives strength to the body (Ovid) annus inceptus habetur pro completo: a year begun ...
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... person in the country of the blind beatus autem esse sine virtute nemo potest: no one can be happy without virtue (Cicero) beatus enim nemo dici potest extra veritatem projectus: no one can be called happy who is living a life of ...
... person in the country of the blind beatus autem esse sine virtute nemo potest: no one can be happy without virtue (Cicero) beatus enim nemo dici potest extra veritatem projectus: no one can be called happy who is living a life of ...
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