Latin Phrases
I went to look up the actually meaning of ad hoc and de facto the other night, and came across the wonder of wiki once again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases
List of Latin Phrases
Awesome.
Spending time scrolling through, reading, learning, enjoying. Some are legal or literary terms, others are mottoes and sayings from famous people/institutions. Hours of enjoyment. But I’m a nerd.
Couple of my current “Favorites” (more to follow)
* audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret (slander boldly, something always sticks) ~ Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum (1623)
* odium theologicum (theological hatred) ~ A name for the special hatred generated in theological disputes.
* omnes vulnerant, postuma necat [omnes feriunt, ultima necat ~ All [the hours wound, last one kills
* si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses ~ “If you had kept your silence, you would have stayed a philosopher (we would have thought you wise)”
* si vis pacem para bellum ~ “if you want peace, prepare for war”
* tu autem domine miserere nobis ~ “But Thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us”
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