When posting please, if you can, put it in Latin then the English definition.
2006-07-26 09:56:49 · 18 answers · asked by ronni 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
"Sic vis pacem parabellum."
If you want peace, prepare for war.
2006-07-26 14:40:41 · answer #1 · answered by Incorrectly Political 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Delenda est Cartago= Carthage must be destroyed. This was spoken again and again by Cato the Elder around 250 BC. Persistent, Cato would end every Senate speech with this phrase, whatever the topic of the speech had been.
His obsession, which turned out to be correct, was caused by the fact that the Romans had gone soft after the first peace treaty with Carthage and that Carthage was getting richer and more dangerous, even though it made no moves to threaten Rome.
2006-07-26 20:00:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi!
Always Wear Under Wear!
2006-07-26 20:03:13 · answer #3 · answered by mnbaby2156 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sic transit gloria mundi
LSo fades the pomp of the world
2006-07-26 17:46:31 · answer #4 · answered by opaalvarez 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pestis eram vivus, moriens tua mors ero.
Martin Luther's last words. (Roughly: I was a plague in life, now my death shall be yours.) Morbid, I know, but very poignant considering how effective his defiance of the Church was.
2006-07-26 17:55:47 · answer #5 · answered by Adam T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.
Now these softly tolling bells say to me, "Thou shalt die".
Latin epigraph to John Donne's Meditation XVII, which is very dear to me, and which I have linked below.
http://isu.indstate.edu/ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/text.html
2006-07-27 05:27:35 · answer #6 · answered by Bronwen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo. //// A drop excavates a stone, not by force, but by falling frequently.
2006-07-26 20:41:15 · answer #7 · answered by Paul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amo. Amas. Amat. That sums up my life.
2006-07-26 17:07:50 · answer #8 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum
Roughly: give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred.
2006-07-26 19:13:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anacapa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sensu lato, nullus.
2006-07-26 17:06:49 · answer #10 · answered by zsopark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cogito ergo sum
I think therefore I am
2006-07-26 17:00:31 · answer #11 · answered by bigtony615 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋