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oderint dum metuant: let them hate, so long as they fear: favorite saying of Caligula, attributed originally to Lucius Accius, Roman tragic poet (170 BC) odi et amo: I hate and I love: opening of Catullus 85; the entire poem reads, "odi et amo quare id faciam fortasse requiris / nescio sed fieri sentio et excrucior" (I hate and I love. Why do I ...
Lucius Accius (/ ˈ æ k s i ə s /; 170 – c. 86 BC), or Lucius Attius, [1] was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. Accius was born in 170 BC at Pisaurum, a town founded in the Ager Gallicus in 184 BC. [2]
Roman Emperor Caligula, reportedly had a favorite saying (Oderint dum metuant), which roughly translates to: "Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.". Image credits: Electric_Evil #27.
cruci dum spiro fido: while I live, I trust in the cross, Whilst I trust in the Cross I have life: Motto of the Sisters of Loreto (IBVM) and its associated schools. cucullus non facit monachum: The hood does not make the monk: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 1, scene 5, 53–54 [33] cui bono: Good for whom? "Who benefits?"
Logistical Center of Armament and Experimentation (CLAEX): Oderint dum metuant – That they hate us provided they fear us (Latin) [49] Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD): En cualquier suerte... - Under all circumstances... Logistical Center of Quartermastery (CLOIN): Dotar a la fuerza - To outfit the force [50] Transmissions Group (GRUTRA)
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Career diplomat John Brady Kiesling resigns from the U.S. Foreign Service with a sharp public rebuke for the Bush administration's foreign policy, asking "Has oderint dum metuant really become our motto?"
Career diplomat John Brady Kiesling resigns from the U.S. Foreign Service with a sharp public rebuke for the Bush administration's foreign policy, asking "Has oderint dum metuant really become our motto?"