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omne ignotum pro magnifico: every unknown thing [is taken] for great: or "everything unknown appears magnificent" The source is Tacitus: Agricola, Book 1, 30 where the sentence ends with 'est'. The quotation is found in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story "The Red-Headed League" (1891) where the 'est' is missing. omne initium ...
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Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
What does "omne ignotum per obscaenum" mean? I know that it must be latin phrase, but I've yet to find a definition... The Latin phrases page lists "omne ignotum pro magnifico" as "all that is unknown, appears magnificent," so I would guess that this phrase is intended to have a contrasting meaning; "all that is unknown, appears obscene."
With a male/female ratio of 6:1, someone WILL say hello to you." G.U.E. Tech's motto, seen on the student ID card in the feelies, is "Omne ignotum pro magnifico", a Latin phrase meaning "Everything unknown is taken for magnificent.", taken from Tacitus , Book 1, 30.
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a digital repository housed in LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin. AILLA is a digital language archive dedicated to the digitization and preservation of primary data, such as field notes, texts, audio and video recordings ...
Ignotum per ignotius (Latin for "the unknown by the more unknown") describes an explanation that is less familiar than the concept it would explain. [citation needed] An example would be: "The oven felt hot because of Fourier's law." It is unlikely that a person unfamiliar with the hotness of ovens would be enlightened by a reference to a ...
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter C.