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Not a day without a line drawn: Pliny the Elder attributes this maxim to Apelles, an ancient Greek artist. nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo: No day shall erase you from the memory of time: From Virgil's Aeneid, Book IX, line 447, on the episode of Nisus and Euryalus. nulla poena sine lege: no penalty without a law
which translates to "No day will ever erase you from the memory of time" (French: Aucun jour ne t'effacera jamais de la mémoire du temps). The heroes commemorated in the monument are: From the French Regime (1534–1763):
The lines in your face that your mirror shows you will remind you of the open mouths of fresh graves. The hands of the dial will truly teach you how time thievishly keeps leading towards eternity. What your memory cannot keep, you should write down, and when you return to them you will find that they are like well-nursed children born of your ...
The original meaning was similar to "the game is afoot", but its modern meaning, like that of the phrase "crossing the Rubicon", denotes passing the point of no return on a momentous decision and entering into a risky endeavor where the outcome is left to chance. alenda lux ubi orta libertas: Let light be nourished where liberty has arisen
"I no longer see you." [85] ("Eu já o não vejo.") — Almeida Garrett, Portuguese author (9 December 1854), addressing his friend Francisco "If you wish for another cheerful evening with your old friend, there is no time to be lost." [35] — Mary Russell Mitford, English author and dramatist (10 January 1855)
A legal term meaning that something is prohibited because it is inherently wrong (cf. malum prohibitum); for example, murder. malum prohibitum: wrong due to being prohibited: A legal term meaning that something is only wrong because it is against the law (cf. malum in se); for example, violating a speed limit. mandamus: we command
In principle, the word dies, day, is rather masculine but it is sometimes found in the feminine form, either in traditional expressions like the one presented here, with an almost poetic connotation, or to signify an important day, hence for example the formula dies irae, dies illa, "day of anger that day", in the official text of a Requiem (in the masculine, one would have dies ille).
Time immemorial (Latin: Ab immemorabili) is a phrase meaning time extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition, indefinitely ancient, "ancient beyond memory or record". [1] The phrase is used in legally significant contexts as well as in common parlance.