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Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana.Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images").
Deus lux mea est: God is my light: The motto of The Catholic University of America. Deus meumque jus: God and my right: The principal motto of Scottish Rite Freemasonry. See also Dieu et mon droit. Deus nobis haec otia fecit: God has given us these days of leisure: Motto of the city of Liverpool, England. Deus nobiscum: God with us
In law, an act of neglect. In general, guilt, sin, or a fault. See also mea culpa. cum gladiis et fustibus: with swords and clubs: From the Bible. Occurs in Matthew 26:47 and Luke 22:52. cum gladio et sale: with sword and salt: Motto of a well-paid soldier. See salary. cum grano salis: with a grain of salt: Not to be taken too seriously or as ...
The Planctus (de obitu) Karoli ("Lament [on the Death] of Charlemagne"), also known by its incipit A solis ortu (usque ad occidua) ("From the rising of the sun [to the setting]"), is an anonymous medieval Latin planctus eulogising Charlemagne, written in accented verse by a monk of Bobbio shortly after his subject's death in 814. [1]
Mundi homines stupidos, et pectora caeca, rebellis. Et quia sic nostram complerent crimina pellem, Virginis in corpus voluit demittere coelo Ipse Deus prolem, quam nunciet angelus almae Matri, quo miseros contracta sorde lavaret. I myself saw the high God wishing to punish the stupid men of the earth and the blind heart of the rebel.
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, by Noël Hallé (1779, Musée Fabre). Haec ornamenta mea is a Latin phrase meaning "These are my jewels" or "These are my ornaments". The expression is attributed to Cornelia Africana (c. 190 – c. 100 BC) by Valerius Maximus in his Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX, IV, 4, incipit, [1] [2] [3] where he related an anecdote demonstrating Cornelia's ...
Canticum Canticorum (Song of Solomon) from 1584 is a cycle of 29 motets by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.Originally titled Motettorum - Liber Quartus, this Renaissance work is one of Palestrina's largest collections of Sacred motets.
Catullus 5 in Latin and English. Catullus 5 is a passionate ode to Lesbia and one of the most famous poems by Catullus.The poem encourages lovers to scorn the snide comments of others, and to live only for each other, since life is brief and death brings a night of perpetual sleep.