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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... veritas: Plato is my friend, Socrates is my friend, but truth is more my friend amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas: Plato is my friend, but truth is more my friend amicus verus rara avis: a true friend is a rare bird amicus vitæ ...
... veritas: Plato is my friend, Socrates is my friend, but truth is more my friend amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas: Plato is my friend, but truth is more my friend amicus verus rara avis: a true friend is a rare bird amicus vitæ ...
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... veritas: the first reaction to truth is hatred (Tertullian) cum plus sunt potæ, plus potiuntur aquæ: the more they have been drinking, the more water they drink (often said of the thirst for knowledge) cum quod datur spectabis, et ...
... veritas: the first reaction to truth is hatred (Tertullian) cum plus sunt potæ, plus potiuntur aquæ: the more they have been drinking, the more water they drink (often said of the thirst for knowledge) cum quod datur spectabis, et ...
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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 quæ rebus rerum sæpe Sallust semper Seneca sine strength Tacitus Terence things tibi true truth University veritas Virgil virtue vita vitæ wise wish words