Quotations: Horace Flashcards
Aurea mediocritas
Horace - The golden mean
Carpe diem
Horace - Seize the day
Exegi monimentum aere perennius
Horace - I have built a monument more lasting than bronze
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Horace - It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country
Quid ridēs? De te fabula narratur.
Horace - Why are you laughing? The story is being told about you
Ab ovo usque ad mala
Horace - From the egg up to the apples (i.e. from beginning to end)
Nunc est bibendum
Horace - Now is the drinking
Non omnis moriar
Horace - I will not totally die
Culpam poena permit comes
Horace - Punishment follows guilt, its companion
Est modus in rebus
Horace - There is a middle ground in things
Consule Planco
Horace - When Plancus was consul (in the good old days)
Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae
Horace - The smoke and the grandeur and the noise of Rome
Indignor quanoque bonus dormitat Homerus
Horace - I think it a shame if good Homer also falls asleep
In medias res
Horace - Into the middle of things
Ira furor brevis est
Horace - Anger is a brief madness
Laudator temporis acti
Horace - A praiser of a past time
Leges sine moribus vanae
Horace - Laws without morals are useless
Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti; tempus abire tibi est
Horace - You have played, eaten and drunk enough; it is time
for you to leave
Nil mortalibus ardui est
Horace - Nothing is difficult for mortals
Non omnis moriar
Horace - I shall not altogeather die
Odi profundam vulgas et arceo
Horace - I hate the common crowd and I keep away
O rus quando ego te aspiciam
Horace - O farm, when shall I look on you again
Parturient montes nascetur ridiculus mus
Horace - Mountains are in labor, but a ridiculous mouse is born
Persicos odi puer apparatus
Horace - Persian luxary boy, I hate it
Semper avarus eget
Horace - A greedy man is always poor
Vis consili expers mole ruit
Horace - Force without planning falls by its own weight
