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"Fortuna Favet Fortibus " ("Fortune favors the brave") is the official motto of the United States Naval Academy Classes of 1985, 2004, and 2012. [citation needed] Is on the emblem of the 3rd Battalion 8th Marines 2n Marine Division . "Audaces Fortuna Juvat" is the official motto of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1992. "Fortes Fortuna ...
The clan motto is Fortuna Favet Fortibus, or "Fortune Favours the Brave" which may have been inspired by the same line in Virgil's Aeneid. The Ó Flaithbertaigh coat of arms depicts "two red lizards or dragons rampant combatant, supporting a red dexter hand, couped at the wrists, in base a black boat with eight oars".
Translation Notes faber est suae quisque fortunae: every man is the artisan of his own fortune: Appius Claudius Caecus; motto of Fort Street High School in Petersham, Sydney, Australia fac et spera: do and hope: motto of Clan Matheson: fac fortia et patere: do brave deeds and endure: motto of Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, Australia fac simile
3rd Battalion 8th Marines (3/8) was an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, was consisted of approximately 1,100 Marines and sailors.
audentes fortuna iuvat: Fortune favors the bold: From Virgil, Aeneid, Book 10, 284, where the first word is in an archaic form, audentis fortuna iuvat. Allegedly the last words of Pliny the Elder before he left the docks at Pompeii to rescue people from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. Often quoted as audaces fortuna iuvat.
The form is close enough to recognisable Latin to fool me, after three years of the Cambridge Latin Course, into trying to translate it. Remember that "v" is pronounced as "w". is ab illi, ers ago fortibus es in aro non sed billi demis trux se vatis inem, pes an dux I say Billy, 'ere's a go Forty buses in a row No, said Billy, them is trucks.
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 ...
A more direct translation would be "omnipotent father". Pater Patriae: father of the nation: A Latin honorific meaning "Father of the Country", or more literally, "Father of the Fatherland". pater peccavi: Father, I have sinned: The traditional beginning of a Roman Catholic confession. pauca sed bona: few, but good