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A legal term meaning that something is prohibited because it is inherently wrong (cf. malum prohibitum); for example, murder. malum prohibitum: wrong due to being prohibited: A legal term meaning that something is only wrong because it is against the law (cf. malum in se); for example, violating a speed limit. mandamus: we command
A Roman maxim adopted by Roman Dictator Julius Caesar, King Louis XI of France and the Italian political author Niccolò Machiavelli. dixi: I have spoken: A popular, eloquent expression, usually used in the end of a speech. The implied meaning is that the speaker has said all that had to be said and thus the argument is completed ...
— Alfred Rosenberg, Baltic German Nazi theorist and ideologue (16 October 1946), when asked if he had anything to say prior to his execution by hanging for war crimes and crimes against humanity (Nuremberg executions) "I am thankful for the kind of treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy." [242]
Great trust, we had a wonderful time, and we had no idea that it was gonna be what it was.” The film, of course, was a hit with audiences and went on to become a classic of the rom-com genre.
In Germany, East West Records, in conjunction with Polydor, marketed a lyrically changed version of "Con te partirò", retitled "Time to Say Goodbye", as the theme song for the final match of boxer Henry Maske (then the light-heavyweight champion of the International Boxing Federation), having seen previous success when Vangelis's "Conquest of ...
Italian originally had three degrees of demonstrative adjectives: questo (for items near or related to the first person speaker: 'this'), quello (for items near or related to an eventual third person: 'that'), and codesto (for items near or related to an eventual second person).
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Quando is the only Italian word normally retained in most English-language renditions of the song. Pat Boone sang the starting piece in Italian but then carried on the rest of it in English, repeating every now and again some Italian words.