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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... true and pure form and Modern Standard English as its defilement? Of course not. There is no pure language, for language, as a human creation, is neither fixed nor constant, but changes with the needs and conventions of the times. In ...
... true and pure form and Modern Standard English as its defilement? Of course not. There is no pure language, for language, as a human creation, is neither fixed nor constant, but changes with the needs and conventions of the times. In ...
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... true friend is certain when certainty is uncertain (i.e., a friend in need is a friend indeed) (Ennius) amicus est unus animus in duobus corporibus: a friend is one soul in two bodies (Aristotle) amicus in necessitate probatur: a friend ...
... true friend is certain when certainty is uncertain (i.e., a friend in need is a friend indeed) (Ennius) amicus est unus animus in duobus corporibus: a friend is one soul in two bodies (Aristotle) amicus in necessitate probatur: a friend ...
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... true de multis grandis acervus erit: out of many things a great heap will be formed (Ovid) de parvis grandis acervus erit: small things will make a large pile de paupertate tacentes plus poscente ferent: those who are silent about their ...
... true de multis grandis acervus erit: out of many things a great heap will be formed (Ovid) de parvis grandis acervus erit: small things will make a large pile de paupertate tacentes plus poscente ferent: those who are silent about their ...
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