Quotations: Horace

Question 1

Aurea mediocritas

Answer 1

Horace - The golden mean

Question 2

Carpe diem

Answer 2

Horace - Seize the day

Question 3

Exegi monimentum aere perennius

Answer 3

Horace - I have built a monument more lasting than bronze

Question 4

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

Answer 4

Horace - It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country

Question 5

Quid ridēs? De te fabula narratur.

Answer 5

Horace - Why are you laughing? The story is being told about you

Question 6

Ab ovo usque ad mala

Answer 6

Horace - From the egg up to the apples (i.e. from beginning to end)

Question 7

Nunc est bibendum

Answer 7

Horace - Now is the drinking

Question 8

Non omnis moriar

Answer 8

Horace - I will not totally die

Question 9

Culpam poena permit comes

Answer 9

Horace - Punishment follows guilt, its companion

Question 10

Est modus in rebus

Answer 10

Horace - There is a middle ground in things

Question 11

Consule Planco

Answer 11

Horace - When Plancus was consul (in the good old days)

Question 12

Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae

Answer 12

Horace - The smoke and the grandeur and the noise of Rome

Question 13

Indignor quanoque bonus dormitat Homerus

Answer 13

Horace - I think it a shame if good Homer also falls asleep

Question 14

In medias res

Answer 14

Horace - Into the middle of things

Question 15

Ira furor brevis est

Answer 15

Horace - Anger is a brief madness

Question 16

Laudator temporis acti

Answer 16

Horace - A praiser of a past time

Question 17

Leges sine moribus vanae

Answer 17

Horace - Laws without morals are useless

Question 18

Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti; tempus abire tibi est

Answer 18

Horace - You have played, eaten and drunk enough; it is time
for you to leave

Question 19

Nil mortalibus ardui est

Answer 19

Horace - Nothing is difficult for mortals

Question 20

Non omnis moriar

Answer 20

Horace - I shall not altogeather die

Question 21

Odi profundam vulgas et arceo

Answer 21

Horace - I hate the common crowd and I keep away

Question 22

O rus quando ego te aspiciam

Answer 22

Horace - O farm, when shall I look on you again

Question 23

Parturient montes nascetur ridiculus mus

Answer 23

Horace - Mountains are in labor, but a ridiculous mouse is born

Question 24

Persicos odi puer apparatus

Answer 24

Horace - Persian luxary boy, I hate it

Question 25

Semper avarus eget

Answer 25

Horace - A greedy man is always poor

Question 26

Vis consili expers mole ruit

Answer 26

Horace - Force without planning falls by its own weight