Phrases worth knowing

Question 1

dum spiro, spero

Answer 1

while I breathe, I hope

Question 2

veni, vidi, vici

Answer 2

I came, I saw, I conquered

Question 3

vivamus, moriendum est

Answer 3

let us live, for we must die.

Question 4

ergo dum me diligis

Answer 4

so long as you love me

Question 5

alis volat propriis

Answer 5

she flies with her own wings

Question 6

sic mundus creatus est

Answer 6

thus the world was created

Question 7

aut inveniam viam aut faciam

Answer 7

I shall either find a way, or make one

Question 8

ars longa, vita brevis

Answer 8

art is long, life is short

Question 9

experiential docet

Answer 9

experience teaches

Question 10

helluo librorum

Answer 10

a glutton for books (bookworm)

Question 11

in libra libertas

Answer 11

in book, freedom

Question 12

littera scripta manet

Answer 12

the written letter lasts

Question 13

mens regnum bona possidet

Answer 13

an honest heart is a kingdom in itself

Question 14

mirabile dictu

Answer 14

wonderful to say

Question 15

nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Answer 15

there is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part

Question 16

poeta nascular, non fit

Answer 16

the poet is born, not made

Question 17

qui dedit benificium tacet; narrat qui accepit

Answer 17

let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who received it tell it

Question 18

sedit qui timuit ne non succederet

Answer 18

he who feared he would not succeed sat still

Question 19

si vis pacem, para belium

Answer 19

if you want peace, prepare for war

Question 20

urbern latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit

Answer 20

he found the city, a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble

Question 21

ad hoc

Answer 21

for this purpose only

Question 22

ergo

Answer 22

therefore

Question 23

in flagrante delicto

Answer 23

in the act of committing a crime

Question 24

ipso facto

Answer 24

by that very fact

Question 25

mea culpa

Answer 25

my fault

Question 26

terra incognita

Answer 26

unknown land

Question 27

vox populi

Answer 27

the voice of the people