Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Luger model P08 (1908) chambered in 9mm Parabellum. The main clause of the adage was used as a motto by German arms maker Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM), and is the source of the term Parabellum as applied to firearms and ammunition (especially the 7.65mm Parabellum and the 9mm Parabellum cartridges). "Parabellum" was the ...
para bellum: prepare for war: From "Si vis pacem para bellum": if you want peace, prepare for war—if a country is ready for war, its enemies are less likely to attack. Usually used to support a policy of peace through strength (deterrence). In antiquity, however, the Romans viewed peace as the aftermath of successful conquest through war, so ...
si vis pacem, para bellum: if you want peace, prepare for war: From Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De Re Militari. Origin of the name parabellum for some ammunition and firearms, such as the Luger Parabellum. (Similar to igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum and in pace ut sapiens aptarit idonea bello.) sic: thus: Or "just so".
9mm Parabellum Bullet, a Japanese rock band, formed in March 2004 in Yokohama; Para-Bellum, a Russian band that competed to represent at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010; Parabellum (Colombian band), an extreme metal band from Medellín active in the 1980s; Parabellum (French band), an alternative rock and punk band that formed in 1984
i.e., an adviser, or a person who can obtain or grant access to the favour of a powerful group (e. g., the Roman Curia). In current U.S. legal usage, an amicus curiae is a third party who is allowed to submit a legal opinion in the form of an amicus brief to the court. Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.
Si vis pacem, para bellum is a Latin adage translated as, "If you wish for peace, prepare for war". Dona nobis pacem is a phrase in the Agnus Dei section of the Roman Catholic mass; Dona nobis pacem is a cantata written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1936. Pacem in terris was a papal encyclical issued by Pope John XXIII on 11 April 1963.
12th Armored Cavalry Group "Villaviciosa": El león de Villaviciosa, triunfante y vengador - The lion of Villaviciosa, triumphant and avenger; 12th Logistic Group: Sum it possint esse / Primero los demás - We are so they can be (Latin) / First others 12th Mechanized Signals Company: Lealtad y valor - Loyalty and valor "Castillejos" Division
Horace, Satires 2/2:111; similar to si vis pacem, para bellum and igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum. in pace requiescat: in peace may he rest: Alternate form of requiescat in pace ("let him rest in peace"). Found in this form at the end of The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe. in pari materia: upon the same matter or subject