"That's what humans do. Rem acu tetigit -- He has hit the nail on the head (literally touched it with a needle-point). Elati animi comprimendi sunt -- Minds which are too much elated ought to be kept in check. Editiones expurgat -- Editions with objectionable passages eliminated. Ex professo -- As one who knows; professedly. Le monde est plein de fous, et qui n'en veut pas voir / Doit se tenir tout seul et casser son miroir. Falsehood; a falsehood or lie; a false statement made with intent to deceive. Mendaces, ebriosi, verbosi -- Liars, drunkards, and wordy people. Standing in a case; position in an argument. Sol occubuit; nox nulla secuta est -- The sun is set; no night has followed. Le doute s'introduit dans l'me qui rve, la foi descend dans l'me qui souffre -- Doubt insinuates itself into a soul that is dreaming; faith comes down into one that struggles and suffers. Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arenas -- Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch the sands, i.e., so as not to go out of my depth. Tecum habita -- Live with yourself; keep within your means. Laus est facere quod decet, non quod licet -- It is doing what we ought to do, and not merely doing what we may do, that is the ground of praise. Argumentum ad verecundiam -- An appeal to respect for some authority. Ad referendum -- For further consideration. Le divorce est le sacrement de l'adultre -- Divorce is the sacrament of adultery. Seriatim -- In order; according to rank; in due course. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job. As is the bird, so is its song; as is the man, so is his manner of speech. Wisdom is a birth of Nature, not of years. Schicksal und eigene Schuld -- Fate and one's own deservings. Desideratum -- A thing desired, but regretfully wanting. Friends, those relations that we make ourselves. Ex ungue leonem -- The lion may be known by his claw. What more discreditable than to estimate the life of a wise man from the talk of a fool? Qui mange du pape, en meurt -- Who eats what comes from the pope dies of it. Heavy and severe punishment (specially that of putting heavy weights on prisoners who refused to plead). The refusal of praise often proceeds from a desire to have it repeated. To sing as one goes along; to sing by the way. Gloria in excelsis Deo -- Glory to God in the highest. Proprio motu -- Of his own motion; spontaneously. Quam prope ad crimen sine crimine! Te hominem esse memento -- Remember thou art a man. Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere -- It is common to man to pardon all his own faults. c) to facilitate agreement, at least on essential matters of doctrine and on the course of action to be taken in the life of the Church. Lead back the wanderer into the right way. Virtus in arduis -- Valour in difficulties. Editions with objectionable passages eliminated. Usage Frequency: 1 Deus ex machina -- A mechanical instead of a rational or spiritual explanation (literally a god mechanically introduced). Qui pro quo -- Who for whom; one instead of another. Plus in posse quam in actu -- More in possibility than actuality. Ultimus Romanorum -- The last of the Romans. Maximus in minimis -- Very great in very little things. Mortalia acta nunquam Deos fallunt -- The deeds of man never can be hid from the gods. Mind what you are about (literally do this). It is vain to do by many agencies what may be done by few. Hannover 1918 (Nachdruck Darmstadt 1998), Band 2, Sp. Res nolunt diu male administrari -- Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Habere et dispertire -- To have and to distribute. usque ad nos etiam mendacium per manus traditum perveniret, in pulcherrimis versibus metrisque servatum. A prudent man may, on occasion, change his opinion, but a fool changes as often as the moon. Juniores ad labores -- The younger men for labours, i.e., the heavier burdens. We sons are heirs no less to diseases than to estates. According to Pope Paul VI's 1965 Motu Proprio Integrae Servandae, "All . The terms being reversed; in reverse order. A thing desired, but regretfully wanting. Divitis servi maxime servi -- Servants to the rich are the most abject. A friend to the very altar, i.e., to the death. Inter canem et lupum -- Between the dog and the wolf; at the twilight. Universus mundus exercet histrioniam -- All the world practises the player's art. 21. With hands and feet; with tooth and nail. Reductio ad absurdum -- A reduction of an adversary's conclusion to an absurdity. Multo plures satietas quam fames perdidit viros -- Many more die of surfeit than of hunger. (On the bust of Franklin.). Lege totum si vis scire totum -- Read the whole if you wish to know the whole. Ex quo et bono -- In justice and equity. Rien ne russit mieux que le succs -- Nothing succeeds like success. Alma mater -- A benign mother; applied to one's university, also to the "all-nourishing" earth. Longe absit -- Far be it from me; God forbid. Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies -- Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people. Ante victoriam ne canas triumphum -- Don't celebrate your triumph before you have conquered. A calumniating disposition (literally tooth). To fit words to things, i.e., call a spade a spade. Contextual translation of "veritas mendacium" into English. Pecuniam perdidisti: fortasse illa te perderet manens. [Greek: to prepon] -- That which is becoming or decorous. Gram. Entries where "servanda" occurs: Citations:perfixere: fr ltere Deutsche Geschichtskunde, Deutsches Archiv fr Erforschung des Mittelalters, Bhlau, page 409: Quisquis propriae desertor ecclesiae nullis perfixere. Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet -- Though the wound is healed, a scar remains. Genus irritabile vatum -- The sensitive tribe of poets. Nulla res tantum ad discendum profuit quantum scriptio -- Nothing so much assists learning, as writing down what we wish to remember. The leaf falls to earth, so also does beauty. By continuing to visit this site you agree to our use of cookies. Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa -- The solemnity associated with death awes us more than death itself. Argus-eyes -- Eyes ever wakeful and watchful. Plus dolet quam necesse est, qui ante dolet quam necesse est -- He who grieves before it is necessary, grieves more than is necessary. Causa sine qua non -- An indispensable condition. ab haec a custodiis classium loca vacabant. In crucifixo gloria mea -- I glory in the Crucified. Cunctis servatorem liberatoremque acclamantibus -- All hailing him as saviour and deliverer. We only suffer what other mortals do. Natura non facit saltus -- Nature makes no leaps. In silence, i.e., without notice being taken. Comitas inter gentes -- Courtesy between nations. Hold him the best prophet who forms the best conjectures. ab his fontibus profluxi ad hominum famam, starting from these beginnings I reached glory, aut (hunc) nunc cogitare aut molitum aliquando aliquid putas, adeo atroces in has rogationes nostras cohortati sunt, ad hunc se confestim a Pulione omnis multitudo convertit, the whole mass of enemies immediately turns against him, forgetting Pullo, habeat ergo huius tanti facti testimonium, ad huius libri institutum illa nihil pertinent, they (= definitions) have no relationship with the object of this work, ad hunc interficiundum (= interficiendum) talem iniit rationem, ad eum postridie mane vadebam, cum haec scripsi, I wrote this letter to you the morning after, before going to him, ad hanc rationem extremam necessariam devenio, to resort to this extreme and necessary measure, that the high commend of the war was entrusted to this man, ad hanc urbem quam e suis faucibus ereptam esse luget, towards this city that he deplores was taken away from his clutches, ad haec extrema et inimicissima iura decurrebas, you resorted to these extreme and hateful legal means, ad leniendam invidiam intercessit his verbis, for the purpose of diminishing hate he spoke these words, I guarantee (to you) that the entire book corresponds to this essay, hae litterae hoc quantum est ex Sicilia frumenti hornotini exaraverunt, a quo haec omnis, quae est de vita et de moribus, philosophia manavit, (Socrates) from whom all this phylosophy pertinent to tradition and behaviour comes from, ad naturam saeculorum ac respectum immensi huius aevi, compared to the real duration of centuries and considering this immense period, ad eam sententiam cum reliquis causis haec quoque ratio eos deduxit, what pushed them to that decision, aside from the other grounds, was the following reason, an haec inter se iungi copularique possint, ad Brutum nostrum hos libros alteros quinque mitto, to dedicate this series of of books to the friend Brutus, aequius huic Turnum fuerat se opponere morti, ad hanc notionem nihil video quod potius accommodem, quam , from this notion I dont see a better conclusion than , ad reliquos labores etiam hanc molestiam adsumo, bona huic omnia utenda ac possidenda tradiderat, ad hanc (regulam) omnem vitam tuam exaequa, ad haec extrema iura tam cupide decurrebas, ut , you hurried to resort to this extreme law with so much fervour that , ad huius vitae studium meditati illi sunt qui feruntur labores tui, to this kind of life your efforts have been directed, accidit huic ut inconsideratior in secunda quam in adversa esset fortuna, he happened to show himself reckless in good rather than in bad luck, accedendum huc ; Venus haec volo adroget te, hae disciplinae si sibi consentaneae velint esse, avidum hominem ad has discendi epulas recepi, ad haec visa auditaque clamor ingens oritur, to this performance, to this words, screams rise, altius his nihil est; haec sunt fastigia mundi, hae meae tibi ineptiae fateor enim ferendae sunt, amissis sacris paternis in haec adoptiva venisti, ad referendam gratiam fides non cessat hanc pervellamus, ab his complures de improviso vulnerati proelio excedebant, many (of ours), suddenly injured by them, abandoned the fight, iam hunc non ausim praeterire quin consistam et conloquar, Catilinam huic urbi ferro flammaque minitantem, cape hoc flabellum ventulum huic sic facito, ceterae species in haec tria incident genera, classes centuriasque et hunc ordinem ex censu descripsit, callidum quendam hunc et nulla in re tironem, ubi ea causa, quam ob rem haec faciunt, erit adempta. for Nemine dissentiente, Nemo ita pauper vivit, quam pauper natus est. 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