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Creative cross tattoo ideas and the significance of this type of ink. From Simple to Making a Statement, Here Are 30 Cross Tattoo Ideas for Meaningful Ink Skip to main content
Over the past few years, finger tattoos have risen in popularity. Small and cute, they are the perfect way to subtly reflect your personality. Despite their size, these tiny masterpieces offer a ...
The last words attributed to Archimedes (paraphrased from Valerius Maximus' Memorable Doings and Sayings). During the raid of Syracuse by the Romans, Archimedes was busy drawing mathematical circles. He was eventually attacked and killed by a Roman soldier as he was too engrossed in thought to obey the soldier's orders.
Commonly used in the names of logical arguments and fallacies, preceding phrases such as a silentio (by silence), ad antiquitatem (to antiquity), ad baculum (to the stick), ad captandum (to capturing), ad consequentiam (to the consequence), ad crumenam (to the purse), ad feminam (to the woman), ad hominem (to the person), ad ignorantiam (to ...
Early appearance of "Bob's your uncle" in print, an advertisement in the Dundee Evening Telegraph on 19 June 1924 "Bob's your uncle" is an idiom commonly used in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries that means "and there it is", or "and there you have it", or "it's done".
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
from Plautus, Persa IV.3–24; used by Russian hooligans as tattoo inscription facile princeps: easily the first: said of the acknowledged leader in some field, especially in the arts and humanities facilius est multa facere quam diu: It is easier to do many things, than one thing consecutively: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1/12:7
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: