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acta deos numquam mortalia fallunt: mortal actions never deceive the gods: Derived from Ovid, Tristia, I.ii, 97: si tamen acta deos numquam mortalia fallunt, / a culpa facinus scitis abesse mea. ("Yet if mortal actions never deceive the gods, / you know that crime was absent from my fault.") acta est fabula plaudite: The play has been performed ...
acta deos numquam mortalia fallunt: mortal actions never deceive the gods: Derived from Ovid, Tristia, I.ii, 97: si tamen acta deos numquam mortalia fallunt, / a culpa facinus scitis abesse mea. ("Yet if mortal actions never deceive the gods, / you know that crime was absent from my fault.") acta est fabula plaudite: The play has been performed ...
Ornamented version of the royal coat of arms of the Kings of Spain from Carlos III to Alfonso XIII, where the motto can be seen.. A solis ortu usque ad occasum is a Latin heraldic motto roughly meaning "From sunrise to sunset".
Il tempo se ne va" is a song by Italian singer Adriano Celentano from his 1980 album Un po' artista un po' no. As the rest of the album, it was composed by Toto Cutugno (music) and Cristiano Minellono (lyrics). The song is said to be dedicated to Celentano's daughter Rosita. [1] [2]
Julius Caesar just before crossing the Rubicon, when he is supposed to have uttered the phrase. Alea iacta est ("The die is cast") is a variation of a Latin phrase (iacta alea est [ˈjakta ˈaːlɛ.a ˈɛs̺t]) attributed by Suetonius to Julius Caesar on 10 January 49 BC, as he led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy, in defiance of the Roman Senate and beginning a long civil ...
Below is the text of A solis ortus cardine with the eleven verses translated into English by John Mason Neale in the nineteenth century. Since it was written, there have been many translations of the two hymns extracted from the text, A solis ortus cardine and Hostis Herodes impie, including Anglo-Saxon translations, Martin Luther's German translation and John Dryden's versification.
The identity of Sextus has been disputed for a long time. The identification with Pope Xystus II (r. 256–258), current by the time of the Latin and Syriac translations, [1] [5] is denied by Jerome, who calls the author Sextus Pythagoreus. [1]
The beginning of a 1475 edition of the Distichs of Cato (Incipit liber Cathonis in vulgares). The Distichs of Cato (Latin: Catonis Disticha, most famously known simply as Cato) is a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an unknown author from the 3rd or 4th century AD.