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tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito: you should not give in to evils, but proceed ever more boldly against them: From Virgil, Aeneid, 6, 95. "Ne cede malis" is the motto of The Bronx. tu quoque: you too: The logical fallacy of attempting to defend one's position merely by pointing out the same weakness in one's opponent. tu stultus es ...
Translation Notes saltus in demonstrando: leap in explaining: a leap in logic, by which a necessary part of an equation is omitted. salus in arduis: a stronghold (or refuge) in difficulties: a Roman Silver Age maxim. Also the school motto of Wellingborough School. salus populi suprema lex esto: the welfare of the people is to be the highest law
cras es noster: Tomorrow, be ours: As "The Future is Ours", motto of San Jacinto College, Texas creatio ex nihilo: creation out of nothing: A concept about creation, often used in a theological or philosophical context. Also known as the 'First Cause' argument in philosophy of religion. Contrasted with creatio ex materia. Credo in Unum Deum
Translation Notes nanos gigantum humeris insidentes: Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants: First recorded by John of Salisbury in the twelfth century and attributed to Bernard of Chartres. Also commonly known by the letters of Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
in the First Folio from 1623 This 1888 painting by William Holmes Sullivan is named Et tu Brute and is located in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Photograph of the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar, the scene in which Julius Caesar ( Joseph Holland , center) addresses the conspirators including Brutus ( Orson Welles , left).
"Tantum ergo" is the incipit of the last two verses of Pange lingua, a Medieval Latin hymn composed by St Thomas Aquinas circa A.D. 1264. The "Genitori genitoque" and "Procedenti ab utroque" portions are adapted from Adam of Saint Victor's sequence for Pentecost. [1]
esto quod es: be what you are: Motto of Wells Cathedral School: et adhuc sub iudice lis est: it is still before the court: From Horace, Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry) 1.78. et alibi (et al.) and elsewhere: A less common variant on et cetera ("and the rest") used at the end of a list of locations to denote unenumerated/omitted ones.
The last words of Jesus on the cross in the Latin translation of John 19:30. contemptus mundi/saeculi: scorn for the world/times: Despising the secular world. The monk or philosopher's rejection of a mundane life and worldly values. contra bonos mores: against good morals: Offensive to the conscience and to a sense of justice. contra legem ...