Part 1 Flashcards
Acta est fabula
Augustus
his last words
The play is over
Vae puto deus fio
Vespasian
his last words
Alas, I think I am becoming a god
Odi et amo
Catullus
I hate and I love
Carthago delenda est
Cato the Elder
at the end of every speech
Carthage must be destroyed
Panem et circenses
Juvenal
Bread and circuses
Arma virumque cano
Virgil
first line of his Aeneid
I sing of arms and a man
Salus populi suprema lex esto
Cicero (also the motto of Missouri)
The safety of the people is the supreme law
Et tu, Brute? / Kai su teknon?
Julius Caesar
his last words
Even you, Brutus / Even you, child?
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
Catullus
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love
Festina lente
Augustus
Make haste slowly
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Virgil
talking about Lucretius in his Georgics
He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things
Fortes fortuna adiuvat
Terence
Fortune favors the bold
Mens sana in corpore sano
Juvenal
A sound mind in a sound body
Quot homines tot sententiae
Terence
in his Phormio
So many men, so many opinions
Rident stolidi verba Latina
Ovid
Fools laugh at the Latin language
Rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cycno
Juvenal
in his Satires
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan
Qualis artifex pereo!
Nero
his last words
What an artist I die!
Alea iacta est
Julius Caesar
after crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC
The die is cast
Ab ovo usque ad mala
Horace
From the egg right to the apples (From start to finish)
Facilis descensus Averno
Virgil
in his Aeneid
Easy is the descent to Avernus (The Underworld)
Nunc est bibendum
Horace
Now we must drink
E pluribus unum
Virgil
in his Moretum
One out of many
Esse quam videri bonus malebat
Sallust (although Cicero also says “Esse quam videri in his own right)
in his Bellum Catilinae
He (Cato) preferred to be good rather than seem good
Oderint dum metuant
Accius
in his Atreus; favorite quote of Caligula
Let them hate [me] provided that they fear [me]
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
Horace
in his Odes
Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow
Vae victis
Brennus
after conquering Rome in 390 BC
Woe to the conquered
O tempora! O mores!
Cicero
in his In Catilinam I
Oh, the times! Oh, the morals!
Ars longa, vita brevis
Hippocrates
Art is long, life is short
Veni, vidi, vici
Julius Caesar
after the battle of Zela in 47 BC
I came, I saw, I conquered
Timendi causa est nescire
Seneca the Younger
Ignorance is the cause of fear
