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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 ...
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cruci dum spiro fido: while I live, I trust in the cross, Whilst I trust in the Cross I have life: Motto of the Sisters of Loreto (IBVM) and its associated schools. cucullus non facit monachum: The hood does not make the monk: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 1, scene 5, 53–54 [33] cui bono: Good for whom? "Who benefits?"
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]
Abbrev. [1]Meaning [1] Latin (or Neo-Latin) origin [1]; a.c. before meals: a.d., ad, AD right ear auris dextra a.m., am, AM morning: ante meridiem: nocte every night ...
dum cresco spero: I hope when I grow: Motto of The Ravensbourne School. dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit: while Rome debates, Saguntum is in danger: Used when someone has been asked for urgent help, but responds with no immediate action. Similar to Hannibal ante portas, but referring to a less personal danger. dum spiro spero: while I breathe ...
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?"
Libera me, Domine, de morte æterna, in die illa tremenda Quando cœli movendi sunt et terra Dum veneris iudicare sæculum per ignem. Tremens factus sum ego, et timeo, dum discussio venerit, atque ventura ira