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Latin mottoes
Latin mottoes
11
Language - Latin
Undergraduate 4
04/04/2013

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Term

Tabula Rasa

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Definition

a blank slate


(the mind, before receiving outside impressions)

Term

Fortuna est caeca.

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Definition
Fortune is blind.
Term

Angustus animus pecuniam amat.

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Definition

     The narrow mind loves money.

 

(Cicero, De OfficiisOn Duties)

Term

Salus populi suprema lex esto.

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Crataegus punctata ~ Spotted Hawthorne / State flower of Missouri

Definition

Let the safety of the people be the highest law.

Cicero, De Legibus 

(Motto of the state of Missouri)

Term

Mens quieta, vires, prudens simplicitas, amici ~ haec vitam beatiorem faciunt.

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Definition
A quiet mind, strength, prudent simplicity, friends ~ these things make life happier.

(Martial, Epigrams)
Term

Homerus auditorem

 in medias res rapit.

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Definition


Homer hurries his listener into the

midst of things.

 

(Horace, EpistulaeLetters)

Term

E Pluribus Unum

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Definition


Out of many, one.

  

       (From the Great Seal of the United States of America)

       Originally, from a poem, Moreta, perhaps by Vergil, which describes the ingredients to be mixed together for a salad...garlic, parsley, rue and onions, seasoned with cheese, salt, coriander and vinegar, sprinkled with oil...all the colors of the ingredients, mixed together, make one new color.

Term

 

Ad astra per aspera

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Definition


To the stars through difficulties.

motto of the state of Kansas

Term

Errare humanum est.

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Definition

To err is human.

The Roman Stoic philosopher, Seneca the Younger

Term

Dum spiro, spero.

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Definition

While I breathe, I hope.

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The Roman senator, Cicero

Term

Nec vitia nostra nec remedia tolerare possumus.

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Definition

We can tolerate neither our vices nor their remedies.


Titus Livius ~ Livy, in the preface to his history of Rome,

AB URBE CONDITA (From the Foundation of the City)

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