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Meaning "either you will win the battle, or you will die and then be carried back home on your shield; but you will not throw your shield away to flee." It was said by Spartan mothers to their sons before they went out to battle to remind them of their bravery and duty to Sparta and Greece.
The full Latin sentence is usually abbreviated into the phrase (De) Mortuis nihil nisi bonum, "Of the dead, [say] nothing but good."; whereas free translations from the Latin function as the English aphorisms: "Speak no ill of the dead," "Of the dead, speak no evil," and "Do not speak ill of the dead."
The unexamined life is not worth living" is a famous dictum supposedly uttered by Socrates at his trial for impiety and corrupting youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death. The dictum is recorded in Plato's Apology (38a5–6) as ho dè anexétastos bíos ou biōtòs anthrṓpōi (but the unexamined life is not lived by man) ( ὁ ...
προαίρεσις: free will, reasoned choice, giving or withholding assent to impressions. prokopê προκοπή: progress, on the path towards wisdom. prokoptôn προκόπτων: Stoic disciple. A person making progress.
It is used in the life sciences literature when a new name is introduced, e.g. Klebsiella granulomatis comb. nov.. comedamus et bibamus, cras enim moriemur: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die: Latin translation of no. 72 of John Chrysostom's 88 Greek homilies on the Gospel of John, [13] citing Isaiah 22:13: communibus annis: in common years
The Moralia (Latin for "Morals", "Customs" or Mores"; Ancient Greek: Ἠθικά, Ethiká) is a set of essays ascribed to the 1st-century scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. [1] The eclectic collection contains 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but they also
Hegesias (Ancient Greek: Ἡγησίας; fl. 290 BC [1]) of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that eudaimonia (happiness) is impossible to achieve, and that the goal of life should be the avoidance of pain and sorrow. Conventional values such as wealth, poverty, freedom, and slavery are all indifferent and produce no more pleasure ...
Alastor (/ ə ˈ l æ s t ər,-t ɔː r /; Ancient Greek: Ἀλάστωρ, English translation: "avenger" [1]) refers to a number of people and concepts in Greek mythology: [2]. Alastor, an epithet of the Greek God Zeus, according to Hesychius of Alexandria and the Etymologicum Magnum, which described him as the avenger of evil deeds, specifically familial bloodshed.