Showing posts with label Latin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latin. Show all posts
Horatius
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Disce quasi semper victurus. Vive quasi cras moriturus!Or translated into English.
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow!Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65BC - 8BC) was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. Horace is generally considered by classicists to be one of the greatest Latin poets and is known for having coined many Latin phrases that remain in use today.
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Sallust
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Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.Or translated into English.
Few men desire liberty. Most men only wish for a just master.Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86 BC - 34 BC) was a famous Roman historian and belonged to a well-known plebeian family.
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Vegetius
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Si vis pacem, para bellum.Or translated into English.
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (? - ?) was a writer of the Later Roman Empire. Nothing is known of his life or station beyond what he tells us in his two surviving works: Epitoma Rei Militaris (war) and Digesta Artis Mulomedicinae (medicine).
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Syrus
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Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere.Or translated into English.
Accepting a favour is selling one's freedom.Publilius Syrus (? - ?) is a Latin writer of maxims, flourished in the 1st century BC. He was brought to Italy as a slave, but by his wit and talent he won the favor of his master, who freed and educated him. He ofted performed for Caesar and was also famous as an improviser. All that remains of his works is a collection of Sentences (Sententiae).
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Terence
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Corruptisima re publica plurimae leges.Or translated into English.
The most corrupt states have the most laws.Publius Terentius Afer (? - ?) was a Roman writer of comic plays. He lived in Carthage prior to being brought to Rome as a slave.
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