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oderint dum metuant: let them hate, so long as they fear: favorite saying of Caligula, attributed originally to Lucius Accius, Roman tragic poet (170 BC) odi et amo: I hate and I love: opening of Catullus 85; the entire poem reads, "odi et amo quare id faciam fortasse requiris / nescio sed fieri sentio et excrucior" (I hate and I love. Why do I ...
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:
Logistical Center of Armament and Experimentation (CLAEX): Oderint dum metuant – That they hate us provided they fear us (Latin) [49] Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD): En cualquier suerte... - Under all circumstances... Logistical Center of Quartermastery (CLOIN): Dotar a la fuerza - To outfit the force [50] Transmissions Group (GRUTRA)
Lucius Accius (/ ˈ æ k s i ə s /; 170 – c. 86 BC), or Lucius Attius, [1] was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. Accius was born in 170 BC at Pisaurum, a town founded in the Ager Gallicus in 184 BC. [2]
A German translation of these verses was made in about 1717 and published in 1730 without music. A Latin version in a handwritten student songbook, dating from some time between 1723 and 1750, is preserved in the Berlin State Library (formerly located at Marburg ); however, this differs considerably from the modern text.
A Latin translation of René Goscinny's phrase in French ils sont fous, ces romains! or Italian Sono pazzi questi Romani. Cf. SPQR, which Obelix frequently used in the Asterix comics. Deo ac veritati: for God and for truth: Motto of Colgate University. Deo confidimus: In God we trust: Motto of Somerset College. Deo Dante Dedi: God having given ...
The term "ordo amoris," first coined by ancient bishop and theologian St. Augustine in his work, "City of God," has been translated to mean "order of love" or "order of charity."
Career diplomat John Brady Kiesling resigns from the U.S. Foreign Service with a sharp public rebuke for the Bush administration's foreign policy, asking "Has oderint dum metuant really become our motto?"