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A quotation from the poem of Lucretius, De rerum natura, Book 2, 77-9. The ordinary spelling "vitae" in two syllables had to be changed to "vitaï" in three syllables to satisfy the requirements of the poem's dactylic hexameters. Motto of the Sydney Church of England Grammar School and others. vitam amplificare hominibus hominesque societati
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:
Also used by Wilfred Owen for the title of a poem regarding World War I, Dulce et Decorum Est (calling it "the old Lie"). dulce et utile: a sweet and useful thing / pleasant and profitable: Horace, Ars Poetica: poetry must be dulce et utile, i.e., both enjoyable and instructive. dulce periculum: danger is sweet: Horace, Odes, 3 25, 16.
famous quote from The Pumpkinification of Claudius, ascribed to Seneca the Younger. [2] It implies that one situation helps the other. manus multae cor unum: many hands, one heart: Motto of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. manus nigra: black hand: marcet sine adversario virtus: valor becomes feeble without an opponent: Seneca the Younger, De ...
Inscription on the east side at the peak of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.; motto of the Viscount of Arbuthnott and Sydney Grammar School; title of a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier commemorating the passage of the 13th Amendment: lectio brevior potior: The shorter reading is the better: A maxim in text criticism.
Thebaid (Latin poem) W. Waltharius This page was last edited on 4 March 2024, at 07:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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For medieval Latin poems, see Category:Medieval Latin poetry or Category:Christian hymns in Latin. Subcategories.