Hodie est...

Friday, October 31, 2008

LATIN EXPRESSIONS


Requiescat in pacem. [common inscription from...?]


Iam datus est finis vitae...iam pausa malorum. (CIL 6.20674v 1-2)


Wednesday, October 29, 2008

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Vita mortalibus cinis est, et fumus.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Commune periculum amicitiam parit.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Veni, vidi, vici

Julius Caesar, quoted in Plutarch's Life of Caesar and Suetonius Lives of the Twelve Caesars, "Julius."

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium et ingens gloria Teucrorum...

Vergil Aeneid II:325-6

Monday, October 6, 2008

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

Vergil Aeneid II:49