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Fortune favours the bold is the translation of a Latin proverb, which exists in several forms with slightly different wording but effectively identical meaning, such as: audentes Fortuna iuvat [1] audentes Fortuna adiuvat; Fortuna audaces iuvat; audentis Fortuna iuvat; This last form is used by Turnus, an antagonist in the Aeneid by Virgil. [2]
Also spelled fortis fortuna adiuvat. The motto of HMS Brave and USS Florida. fortes fortuna iuvat: Fortune favors the brave: From the letters of Pliny the Younger, Book 6, Letter 16. Often quoted as fortes fortuna juvat. The motto of the Jutland Dragoon Regiment of Denmark. fortes in fide: strong in faith: a common motto fortis cadere, cedere ...
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
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.
virtute duce comite fortuna: led by virtue, accompanied by [good] fortune: virtute et armis: by virtue and arms: Alternatively, "by manliness and weapons". The State motto of Mississippi, United States. The phrase was possibly derived from the motto of Lord Gray de Wilton, virtute non armis fido ("I trust in virtue, not in arms"). virtute et ...
Defensor Fortis: Defender of the Force: Official motto of the United States Air Force Security Forces (Security Police). Dei gratia: By the grace of God: Part of the full style of a monarch historically considered to be ruling by divine right, notably in the style of the English and British monarch since 1521 Dei gratia regina: By the Grace of ...
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stet fortuna domus: let the fortune of the house stand: First part of the motto of Harrow School, England, and inscribed upon Ricketts House, at the California Institute of Technology. stipendium peccati mors est: the reward of sin is death: From Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. (See Rom 6:23, "For the wages of sin ...