Sayings

Question 1

Make haste slowly

Answer 1

Festina lente

Question 2

Festina lente

Answer 2

Make haste slowly

Question 3

auribus teneo lupum

Answer 3

“holding a wolf by the ears”

Question 4

“holding a wolf by the ears”

Answer 4

auribus teneo lupum

Question 5

Panem et circenses

Answer 5

bread and circuses

Question 6

bread and circuses

Answer 6

Panem et circenses

Question 7

vox populi

Answer 7

voice of the people

Question 8

voice of the people

Answer 8

vox populi

Question 9

A bene placito

Answer 9

At one’s pleasure

Question 10

A Deo et Rege

Answer 10

From God and the King

Question 11

A posse ad esse

Answer 11

From possibility to actuality

Question 12

A re decedunt

Answer 12

They wander from the point

Question 13

A verbis legis non est recedendum

Answer 13

There must be no departure from the words of the law

Question 14

Ab actu ad posse valet illatio

Answer 14

From what has happened we may infer what will happen

Question 15

Ab aeterno

Answer 15

From the beginning of time

Question 16

Ab alio spectes alteri quod feceris

Answer 16

As you do to another, expect another to do to you

Question 17

Ab inconvenienti

Answer 17

From the inconvenience

Question 18

Abeunt studia in mores

Answer 18

Pursuits become habits

Question 19

Abnormis sapiens

Answer 19

Wise without instruction (Horace)

Question 20

Absque argento omnia vana

Answer 20

Without money all is in vain

Question 21

Abusus non tollit usum

Answer 21

Wrong use does not preclude proper use

Question 22

Acceptissima semper // munera sunt, auctor quae pretiosa facit

Answer 22

Those gifts are always the most acceptable which our love for the donor makes precious (Ovid)

Question 23

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore - Cicero

Answer 23

“I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.” Cicero

Question 24

Vestis virum reddit - Quintilianus

Answer 24

“The clothes make the man.”-Quintilianus

Question 25

Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur

Answer 25

“That man is wise who talks little.”

Question 26

Ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora

Answer 26

Eggs today are better than chickens tomorrow”

Question 27

Vitanda est improba siren desidia - Horace

Answer 27

“One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.” - Horace

Question 28

Dulce bellum inexpertis - Pindaros

Answer 28

War is sweet for those who haven’t experienced it.”

Question 29

Si vis amari, ama - Seneca

Answer 29

“If you wish to be loved, love.”

Question 30

Si vis pacem, para bellum - Vegetius

Answer 30

“If you want peace, prepare for the war.”

Question 31

Transit umbra, lux permanet

Answer 31

“Shadow passes, light remains.”

Question 32

Materiam superabat opus - Ovid

Answer 32

“The workmanship was better than the subject matter.”

Question 33

Forest fortuna adiuvat - Terence

Answer 33

“Fortune favors the brave.”

Question 34

Acta sanctorum

Answer 34

Deeds of the saints

Question 35

Ad lucem

Answer 35

Towards the light

Question 36

Ad omnem libidinem projectus homo

Answer 36

A man disposed to every species of dissipation

Question 37

Ad perpetuam rei memoriam

Answer 37

For the perpetual remembrance of the thing

Question 38

Ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora

Answer 38

Eggs today are better than chickens tomorrow

Question 39

Ad respondendum quaestioni

Answer 39

To answer the question

Question 40

Ad utrumque paratus

Answer 40

Prepared for either alternative

Question 41

Addendum

Answer 41

A thing to be added

Question 42

Aegrescit medendo

Answer 42

The disease worsens with the treatment.

Question 43

Aeternum vale -

Answer 43

Farewell forever

Question 44

Agenda

Answer 44

Things to be done

Question 45

Aureliae Orestillae, cuius praeter formam nihil umquam bonus laudavit,

Answer 45

Aurelia Orestilla, in whom no good man ever commended anything save her beauty;