Part 5 Flashcards
Aura popularis
Cicero
The popular breeze
Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis
Propertius
in his elegies
I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love
Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant
Tacitus
in his Agricola
When they make a desolation, they call it peace
Culpam poena premit comes
Horace
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion
Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes
Varro
in his De re rustica
Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities
Alere flammas
Ovid
To feed the flames
Dulce est desipere in loco
Horace
It is sweet to relax at the proper time
Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?
Cicero
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic?
Mus uni non fidit antro
Plautus
A mouse does not rely on just one hole
Nemo repente fuit turpissimus
Juvenal
in his Satires
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step
Consule Planco
Horace
In the consulship of Plancus (In the good old days)
Gigni de nihilo nihil; in nihilum nil posse reverti
Persius
in his Satires
Nothing can be produced from nothing; nothing can be returned into nothing
Ingenio maximus, arte rudis
Ovid
talking about Ennius
Greatest in genius, rough in skill
Ars est celare artem
Ovid
It is art to conceal art
Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas
Ovid
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
Non est ars quae ad effectum casu venit
Seneca the Younger
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art
Bruta fulmina et vana
Pliny the Elder
in his Naturalis Historia
Thunderbolts that strike blindly and in vain
Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit
Pliny the Younger
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part
Bella horrida bella
Virgil
Wars, horrid wars
Res ad triarios rediit
Livy
The situation has come down to the triarii
Materiam superabat opus
Ovid
The workmanship surpassed the subject matter
Vir bonus, dicendi peritus
Cato the Elder
defining an orator
A good man, skilled in speaking
Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
Curtius Rufus
A timid dog barks more violently than it bites
Colossus magnitudinem suam servabit etiam si steterit in puteo
Seneca the Younger
A giant will keep his size even though he will have stood in a well
Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
Publilius Syrus
Other people’s things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people
Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?
Horace
What forbids a laughing man from telling the truth?
Per varios usus artem experientia fecit
Manilius
Practice has brought skill through different exercises
Quam se ipse amans- sine rivali!
Cicero
Himself loving himself so much- without a rival!
Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores
Petrarch
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me
Cito fit quod dii volunt
Petronius
What the gods want happens soon
Ab uno disce omnes
Virgil
Learn all from one thing
Tacent, satis laudant
Terence
Their silence is enough praise
Novem Iovis concordes filiae sorores
Gnaeus Naevius
referring to the Muses in the first line of Bellum Poenicum
You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart
Aspirat primo Fortuna labori
Virgil
Fortune smiles upon our first effort
Praeceptores suos adulescens veneratur et suspicit
Seneca the Younger
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers
At tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit
Ennius
But the trumpet sounded with its terrible taratantara
Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura
Seneca the Younger
in his Epistulae morales
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man
Quorum pars magna fui
Virgil
in his Aeneid
Of which I was a great part
Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est
Cicero
Inhumanity is harmful in every age
De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum
Thomas á Kempis
Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen
Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico care oportere
Julius Caesar
after his divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC
I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law
Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
Catullus
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh
