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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".
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.
fortes fortuna adiuvat: Fortune favors the brave or Fortune favors the strong: From Terence's comedy play Phormio, line 203. Also spelled fortis fortuna adiuvat. The motto of HMS Brave and USS Florida. fortes fortuna iuvat: Fortune favors the brave: From the letters of Pliny the Younger, Book 6, Letter 16. Often quoted as fortes fortuna juvat.
It is the Latin translation from John 1:36, when St. John the Baptist exclaimes "Ecce Agnus Dei!" ("Behold the Lamb of God!") upon seeing Jesus Christ. alea iacta est: the die has been cast: Said by Julius Caesar (Greek: ἀνερρίφθω κύβος, anerrhíphthō kýbos) upon crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC, according to Suetonius.
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.
stet fortuna domus: let the fortune of the house stand: First part of the motto of Harrow School, England, and inscribed upon Ricketts House, at the California Institute of Technology. stipendium peccati mors est: the reward of sin is death: From Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. (See Rom 6:23, "For the wages of sin ...
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