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Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65) records the use in the first century AD of the crux compacta with transom (patibulum) and of the crux simplex ad infixionem (impalement), but does not mention the transom-less crux simplex ad affixionem; he seems to indicate that execution on a cross tended to follow a fairly common routine, while still ...
oratio recta: direct speech expressions from Latin grammar oratio obliqua: indirect speech: oratio pro domo: speech for [one's own] house: also abbreviated pro domo; speak on one's own behalf; based on a speech by Cicero in legal proceedings in 57 AD to regain his house on the Palatine Hill that was confiscated during his exile [2] orbis non ...
sine remediis medicina debilis est: without remedies medicine is powerless: Inscription on a stained glass in the conference hall of a pharmaceutical mill in Kaunas, Lithuania. sine scientia ars nihil est: without knowledge, skill is nothing: Motto of The International Diving Society and of the Oxford Medical Students' Society. sisto activitatem
A claim of "non est factum" means that the signature on the contract was signed by mistake, without knowledge of its meaning, but was not done so negligently. A successful plea would make the contract void ab initio. non est princeps super leges, sed leges supra principem: the prince is not above the laws, but the law is above the prince.
Aegroto dum anima est, spes est. (As long as a sick person is conscious, there is still hope.) Amor patriae nostra lex. (Love of the fatherland is our law.) Alea iacta est. (The dice is cast!) etc. I thought it was more traditional to italicize the Latin. And I don't think the line breaks add anything. What do others think? <>< tbc TBC - I ...
Professor Murphy has published an 18-page 21st century analysis of nuances comparing "laborare est orare" versus "ora et labora." [12] In 1818, Dalhousie University was established in Nova Scotia, adopting the motto of Ora et Labora in 1870. This is also the motto of Clan Ramsay, of which the Earl of Dalhousie is the leader. [13]
In the Roman Rite the secreta is said by the celebrant at the end of the Offertory in the Mass. [1] It is the original and for a long time was the only offertory prayer.It is said in a low voice merely because it was said at the same time the choir sang the Offertory, and it has inherited the special name of Secret as being the only prayer said in that way at the beginning.
First page of the Exhortation to the Greeks, from the Arethas Codex (Paris grec 451). The script is Greek minuscule.. The Exhortation to the Greeks (Latin: Cohortatio ad Graecos; alternative Latin: Cohortatio ad Gentiles; Ancient Greek: Λόγος παραινέτικος πρὸς Ἕλληνας) is an Ancient Greek Christian paraenetic or protreptic text in thirty-eight chapters.