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From a book by Suetonius (Vit. Tib., 2.2) and Cicero (De Natura Deorum, 2.3). The phrase was said by Roman admiral Publius Claudius Pulcher right before the battle of Drepana, as he threw overboard the sacred chickens which had refused to eat the grain offered them—an unwelcome omen of bad luck. Thus, the sense is, "if they do not perform as ...
Down the rabbit hole; backtranslation, not a genuine Latin phrase; see Down the rabbit hole. desiderantes meliorem patriam: they desired a better land: From Hebrews 11:16; the motto of the Order of Canada. Deus caritas est: God Is Love: Title and first words of the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI.
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:
U. List of Latin phrases (U) V. List of Latin phrases (V) This page was last edited on 16 April 2024, at 06:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
However, with some exceptions (for example, versus or modus operandi), most of the Latin referent words and phrases are perceived as foreign to English. In a few cases, English referents have replaced the original Latin ones (e.g., "rest in peace" for RIP and "postscript" for PS). Latin was once the universal academic language in Europe.
Propertius, Elegies Book III, 2 initium sapientiae timor Domini: the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: Psalm 111:10. Motto of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. iniuriae qui addideris contumeliam: you who have added insult to injury: Phaedrus, Fables 5/3:5. inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia
Latin religious words and phrases (4 C, 145 P) S. Latin-language surnames (67 P) V. Vulgate Latin words and phrases (1 C, 29 P)
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 L.