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Handy Latin phrases (funny!)
FAMOUS LATIN QUOTAIONS AND PROVERBS
ENGLISH LATIN
"From the egg to the ab ovo usquw ad mala
apples" (=our "From
the soup to the nuts")
"The die is cast" alea jacta est
Julius Caesar
"Love conquers all and let amor vincit omnia et nos
us yield to love" cedamus amori
Vergil
"To make a citadel out of a arcem ex cloaca facere
sewer" (=our "To make a Cicero
mountain out of a molehill")
"I sing of arms and the man" arma virumque cano
(the first words of the Vergil
Aeneid)
"It is art to conceal art" ars est celare artem
Ovid
"Art is long but life is ars longa, vita brevis
short" Hippocrates
(originally in Greek)
"The golden mean" aurea mediocritas
Horace
"A woman either loves or aut amat aut odit mulier:
hates: there is no third nihil est tertium
possibility: Publilius Syrus
"Farwell, Caesar, they who ave, Caesar, morituri te
are about to die salute salutant
you" Gladiators Farwell
"Seize the day, thrusting as carpe diem, quam minimum
little as possible to credula postero
tomorrow" Horace
"Beware of the dog" cave canem
"I think therfore I am" cogito ergo sum
Descartes
"Who benifits?" cui bono?
Cicero
"One must not argue about de gustibus non est
matters of taste" disputandum
"Carthage must be delenda est Carthago
destroyed" Cato the Elder
"Speak nothing but good de mortuis nihil nisi bonum
about the dead"
"We learn by teaching" docendo discimus
"He who is well begun is dimidium facti qui bene
half done" coepit habet
Horace
"It is a sweet and fitting dulce et decorum est pro
thing to die for one's partia mori
country" Horace
"A woman is the leader of dux femina facti
the dead" Vergil
"To err is human" errare est humanum
"You, too, Brutus?" Et, tu, Brute?
Shakespeare
"I have built a monument exigi monumentum aere
more lasting than bronze" perennius
Horace
"Make haste slowly" festina lente
A motto of the
Emperor Augustus
"Perhapse it will be a forsan et haec olim
plesure to remember meminesse iuvabit
even these things some Vergil
day"
"Fortune helps the brave" fortes fortuna adiuvat
"Therefore let us rejoice gaudeamus igitur iuvenes
while we are young" dum sumus
German student song
"This is the task, this the" hoc opus, hic labor est
labor" Vergil
"I am human: I consider homo sum: humani nihil a
nothing human to be me alienum puto
alien to me" Terence
"It is more to laugh at humanius est deridere vitam
life than to lament it" quam deplorare
Seneca
"In this sign you will In hoc signo vinces
conquer" Emperor Constantine
"To stand between the axe inter sacrum saxumque
and the altar" (=our stare
"between a rock and a hard Platus
place")
"In wine there is truth" in vino veritas
"Work conquers all" labor omnia vincit
(and not, as a Latin stu- Vergil
dent once translated it,
"Work will kill anybody")
"A snake is hiding in the latet anguis in herba
grass" Vergil
"The hand washes the hand" manus manem lavat
(=our "One good turn
deserves another)
"Remember that you will memento mori
die"
"A sound mind in a sound mens sana in corpore sano
body" Juvenal
"Every lover is a soldier" militat omnis amans
Ovid
"Nothing is completely nihil est ab omni parte
fortunat" beatum
Horace
"Nothing is new under the nihil novi sub sole
sun" Ecclesiastes
"Nothing is difficult for nil mortalibus ardui est
humans" Horace
"Life has given nothing to nil sine vita labore
humans without great dedit mortalibus
labor" Horace
"Too much familiarity nimia familiartas parit
breeds contempt" contemptum
"Life is nothing but non est vivere, sed valere
living well" vita est
Martial
"We can't all do everything" non omnia possumus
omnes
Vergil
"I don't live to eat, non ut edam vivo, sed ut
but eat to live" vivam edo
Quintilian
"We learn not for life but non vitae sed scholae
for school" discimus
Seneca
"Now let us drink!" nunc est bibendum
Horace
"I love and I hate" odi est amo
Catullus
"He has everybody's omne tulit punctum qui
approval who mixes the miscuit utile dulci
useful with the sweet" Horace
"In every sense a man of omnis Minervae homo
Minerva" (=our "A Jack Petronius
of all trades")
"Oh the times! Oh the o tempora! o mores!
habits!" Cicero
"Bread and circuses" panem et circenses
Juvenal
"Equals assiciate most pares cum paribus facillime
easily with equals" congregantur
(=our "Birds of a Cicero
feather flock
together"
"Mountains will be in labor parturient montes, nascetur
and a ridiculas mouse will ridiculus mus
be born" (=our "all that Horace
work and
nothing to
show for it"
"They can because they possunt qui posse videntur
think they can" Vergil
"Sometimes good Homer quandoque bonus dormitat
nods" Homerus
Vergil
"He who says too much to qui nimius multis "non
lots of people that he amo" dicet, amat
is not in love, is in Ovid
love"
"Who will guard the guards quis custodiet ipsos
themselves?" custodes?
Juvenal
"He who hates vices, quis vitia odit, hominus odit
hates men" Pliney the Younger
"There are as many quot homines, tot sententiae
oppinions as there are Torrence
men"
"In the meentime irretriv- sed fugit interea, fugit
able time fees" inreparabile tempus
Vergil
"without anger or prejudice" sine ira et studio
Tacitus
"If you want me to weep, si vis me flere, dolendum
you yourself must grieve est primum ipsi tibi
first" Horace
"So passes away the glory sic transit gloria mundi
of the world" Thomas A. Kempis
"They come to see, they spectatum veniunt, veniunt
come that they them- spectentur ut ipsae
selves may be seen" Ovid
"The most law, the least summuus ius, summa iniuria
justice" Cicero
"There are tears for sunt lacrimae rerum
misfortune" Vergil
"To each, his own" suum cuique
Cicero
"Religion can inspire such tantum religio poruit suadere
evil things" malorum
Lucretius
"The one salvation for the una salus victis nullam
defeated is to hope for sperare salutem
no salvation" Vergil
"Experience is the best usus est magister optimus
teacher"
"A poem is like a picture" ut pictura poesis
Horace
"Woman is a fickle and varium et mutabile semper
changable thing" femina
Vergil
"I came, I saw, I conquered" vini, vidi, vici
Julius Caesar
"A word to the wise is verbum sat sapienti
sufficient"
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