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Hard work conquers all. Popular as a motto; derived from a phrase in Virgil's Eclogue (X.69: omnia vincit Amor – "Love conquers all"); a similar phrase also occurs in his Georgics I.145. laborare pugnare parati sumus: To work, (or) to fight; we are ready: Motto of the California Maritime Academy: labore et honore: By labour and honour ...
This is a list of Wikipedia articles of Latin phrases and their translation into English. To view all phrases on a single, lengthy document, see: List of Latin phrases (full) The list is also divided alphabetically into twenty pages:
war, a woman who lures men and takes them by force: Latin proverb [citation needed] bella gerant alii Protesilaus amet! let others wage war Protesilaus should love! Originally from Ovid, Heroides 13.84, [17] where Laodamia is writing to her husband Protesilaus who is at the Trojan War.
List of Latin phrases; List of motu proprios; List of Latin phrases (full) A. List of Latin phrases (A) B. List of Latin phrases (B) C. List of Latin phrases (C) D.
woman is man's ruin "Part of a comic definition of woman" from the Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Secundi. [10] Famously quoted by Chauntecleer in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. multa paucis: Say much in few words: multis e gentibus vires: from many peoples, strength: Motto of Saskatchewan: multitudo sapientium sanitas orbis
If you had kept your silence, you would have stayed a philosopher: This quote is often attributed to the Latin philosopher Boethius of the late fifth and early sixth centuries. It translates literally as, "If you had been silent, you would have remained a philosopher." The phrase illustrates a common use of the subjunctive verb mood.
Remember that what you’re sexting about doesn’t need to reflect what you’re really doing in the moment; you can say you’re naked in bed when you’re actually reading a book in your ...
go, it is the dismissal: Loosely: "You have been dismissed". Concluding words addressed to the people in the Mass of the Roman Rite. [7] The term missa "Mass" derives from a reanalysis of the phrase to mean "Go, the missa is accomplished." iter legis: the path of the law: The path a law takes from its conception to its implementation