March 24th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "ad infinitum"
"ad infinitum"
"to the infinite," "never-ending"
a.d. IX Kalendas Apriles anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
Friday, March 24, 2023
Thursday, March 23, 2023
March 23rd, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Vive memor leti, fugit hora."
March 23rd, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Vive memor leti, fugit hora."
"Vive memor leti, fugit hora."
"Live mindful of death, the hour is fleeing." Sometimes one sees the spelling lethi for leti, which is ultimately the source of the English "lethal" and its associated words.
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus (34 - 62 C.E.), Satires 5.153
a.d. X Kalendas Apriles anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
March 22nd, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Patria est, ubicumque est bene."
March 22nd, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Patria est, ubicumque est bene."
"Patria est, ubicumque est bene."
"Wherever it is well, that is our fatherland." I've seen this translated as ""Wherever we are content, that is our country."
~ Marcus Pacuvius (200 - c. 130 B.C.E.), Teucer
a.d. XI Kalendas Apriles anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
March 21st, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Adhuc sub iudice lis est."
March 21st, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Adhuc sub iudice lis est."
"Adhuc sub iudice lis est."
"The case is still before the judge," literally "under the judge," meaning a legal matter may not be discussed because it is an active case still being considered by a judge.
a.d. XII Kalendas Apriles anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
Monday, March 20, 2023
March 20th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "ad hominem"
March 20th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "ad hominem"
"ad hominem"
"to the man," id est, an argument made attacking a person rather than their ideas or argument (hence, a fallacy)
a.d. XIII Kalendas Apriles anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
Sunday, March 19, 2023
March 19th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "ad hoc"
March 19th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "ad hoc"
"ad hoc"
"to this," "for this purpose"
a.d. XIV Kalendas Apriles anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
Saturday, March 18, 2023
March 18th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Emas, non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est: quod non opus est, asse carum est."
March 18th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Emas, non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est: quod non opus est, asse carum est."
"Emas, non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est: quod non opus est, asse carum est."
"But not what you need, but what is absolutely necessary: what you do not need, that is expensive at any price [literally at one as, the Roman coin of least value]."
~ Marcus Porcius Cato Maior, quoted by Lucius Annaeus Seneca in Epistulae, XCIV, 28
a.d. XV Kalendas Apriles anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
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