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199 Cards in this Set
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Olevm perdisti
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You have lost oil you've wasted your time on this criticism for a misallocation of resources
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Audiatur et altera pars!
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Let us hear the opposite side!
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Ego me bene habeo
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With me all is well. (last words) (Burrus)
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Haud ignota loquor
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I say things that are known
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Frangar non flectar
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I am broken, I am not deflected
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Ille mi par esse deo videtur
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He seems to me to be equal to a god. (Catullus)
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Domine, dirige nos
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Lord, direct us
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Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit
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To boldly go where no man has gone before
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Quod natura non sunt turpia
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What is natural cannot be bad
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Omnes una manet nox
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The same night awaits us all. (Horace)
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Numquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom say another
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Licentia poetica
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Poetic licence. (Seneca)
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Mala fide
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In bad faith (something which is done fraudulently)
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Si vis amari, ama
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If you wish to be loved, love. (Seneca)
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Cura ut valeas
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Take care
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In vino veritas
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The truth is in wine. A drunk person tells the truth
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Honor virutis preamium
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Honour is the reward of virtue
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Cave canem, te necet lingendo
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Beware of the dog, he may lick you to death
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Aqua vitae
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Water of life (brandy)
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Nihil
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Nothing
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De integro
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Repeat again from the start
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Qui habet aures audiendi audiat
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He who has ears, let him understand how to listen
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Natura abhorret a vacua
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Nature abhors a vacuum
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Un idea perplexi na
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The idea is strange to us
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Alis volat propriis
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He flies by his own wings
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In pari materia
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Of like kind
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Obesa cantavit
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The fat lady has sung
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Non sequitur
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It does not follow
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Dominus tecum
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May the Lord be with you (Singular)
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Omnes deteriores svmvs licentia
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Too much freedom debases us
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Licentia liquendi
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Liberty of speaking
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In silico
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By means of a computer simulation
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Nil sine numine
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Nothing without providence
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Semper idem
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Always the same thing. (Cicero)
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in posse
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In possibility
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Numquam se minus solum quam cum solus esset
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You are never so little alone as when you are alone. (Cicero)
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Timor mortis conturbat me
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The fear of death confounds me
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Cave
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Beware!
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In saecvla saecvlorvm
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For ages of ages forever
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Inter partes
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Made between two parties
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Genus irritabile vatum
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The irritable race of poets. (Horace)
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Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter
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Necessity is the mother of all invention
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Pari passu
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With equal step
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Rem tene, verba sequentur
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Keep to the subject and the words will follow. (Cato Senior)
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Pinxit
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He/she painted it
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Quater in die (Q.I.D)
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Take four times a day
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Vis consili expers mole ruit sua
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Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight. (Discretion is the better part of valor) (Horace)
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Et cetera/etcetera (etc.)
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And the rest.
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Estne tibi forte magna feles fulva et planissima?
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Do you by chance happen to own a large, yellowish, very flat cat?
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Vita luna!
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Crazy life!
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Qua
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In the capacity of
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Hostis hvmani generis
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Enemy of the human race
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Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire
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I came, I saw, I want to go home
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Summam scrutemur
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Let's look at the bottom line
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Salve (plural salvete)
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Hail; welcome
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Scribere est agere
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To write is to act
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
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Anything said in Latin sounds profound
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Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
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(At a barbeque) Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?
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Loco citato (Lc)
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In the passage just quoted
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Koming soon
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Sorry, bad joke
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Escariorium lavator
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Dishwashing machine
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Mellita, domi adsum
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Honey, I'm home
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Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
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Men readily believe what they want to believe. (Caesar)
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In virtute sunt multi ascensus
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There are many degrees in excellence. (Cicero)
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Diabolus fecit, ut id facerem!
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The devil made me do it!
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Uti foro
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To play the market
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Sequens mirabitur aetas
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The following age will be amazed
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In transitu
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In passing, on the way
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Medicus curat, natura sanat
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The physician treats, nature cures
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Nemo autem regere potest nisi qui et regi
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Moreover, there is no one who can rule unless he can be ruled. (Seneca)
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In omnia paratus
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Prepared for all things
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Libertas inaestimabilis res est
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Liberty is a thing beyond all price. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)
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In statu quo
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In the same state
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Curriculum vitae
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A summary of a person's career
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Pone ubi sol non lucet!
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Put it where the sun don't shine!
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Veritas odit moras
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Truth hates delay. (Seneca)
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In vinculis etiam audax
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In chains yet still bold (free)
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Non sum qualis eram
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I am not what / of what sort I was (I'm not what I used to be.)
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Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt
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You know, the Romans invented the art of love
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In memoriam
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To the memory of
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Splendide mendax
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Splendidly false. (Horace)
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Fortunatus sum! Pila mea de gramine horrido modo in pratum lene recta volvit!
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Isn't that lucky! My ball just rolled out of the rough and onto the fairway!
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Adeste fideles
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Be present, faithful ones
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Dum vivimus, vivamus
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While we live, let us live (Epicurean philosophy)
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Aurora Musis amica
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Dawn is friend of the muses. (Early bird catches the worm.)
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Mens sibi conscia recti
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A mind conscious of its rectitude
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Terra nullius
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Uninhabited land
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Minus habens
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Absentminded
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Plusque minusque
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More or less
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Acta est fabula, plaudite!
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The play is over, applaud! (Said to have been emperor Augustus' last words)
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Hoc est vivere bis vita posse priore frvi
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To live twice is to make useful profit from one's past. Experience is the best teacher, so learn from it
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Exempli gratia (e.g)
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For the sake of example
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Experientia docet stultos
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Experience teaches fools
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Nvnc dimittis
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Now let [thy servant] depart
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Inter se
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Amongst themselves
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Nihil obstat
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Nothing stands in the way
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Eheu fugaces labuntur anni
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Alas, the fleeting years slip by. (Horace)
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Fac ut nemo me vocet
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Hold my calls
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Absum!
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I'm outta here!
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Uberrimae fidei
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Of the utmost good faith
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Cotidiana vilescunt
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Familiarity breeds contempt
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In dentibus anticis frustrum magnum spiniciae habes
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You have a big piece of spinach in your front teeth
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Quo signo nata es?
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What's your sign?
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Luctor et emergo
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I struggle but I'll survive
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In limine
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On the threshold, at the very outset
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Quaque nocte (Qn)
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Every night
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Fortes fortuna iuvat
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fortune favours the brave
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Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
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Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?
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Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus
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Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries
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Quomodo vales
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How are you?
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Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
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God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
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Virus
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Poison or slime
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Alma mater
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Nourishing mother. (One's old school or university)
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Per angusta in augusta
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Through difficulties to great things
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Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
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Timendi causa est nescire
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Ignorance is the cause of fear. (Seneca)
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Ibidem (Ib.)
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In the same place. (in a book)
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Amicus curiae
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Friend of the court
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Per contra
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On the contrary
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Dramatis personae
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Characters of the play
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Epistula non erubescit
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A letter doesn't blush. (Cicero)
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Mortvi non mordant
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Dead me don't bite; Dead men tell no tale
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Nota bene (Nb.)
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Note well. Observe carefully
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Quid nunc
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What now?! (a nosy busybody)
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In propria persona
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In person
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De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum
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Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen (Thomas á Kempis)
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Pendente lite
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While a suit is pending
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Puri sermonis amator
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A lover of pure speech. (Terence)
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Aegroto, dum anima est, spes esse dicitur
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It is said that for a sick man, there is hope as long as there is life
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Non sibi sed suis
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Not for one's self but for one's people
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In excelsis
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In the highest
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Quo fas et gloria docunt
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Where right and glory lead
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Deo optimo maximo
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To God, the Best, the Greatest
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Amor platonicus
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Platonic love
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Uva uvam videndo varia fit
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A grape changes color in seeing another grape. A bad/good friend makes you a bad/good person
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Summa cum laude
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With highest honor
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Ubi spiritus est cantus est
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Where there is spirit there is song
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Non sum pisces
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I am not a fish
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Animus facit nobilem
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The spirit makes (human) noble
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Nemo saltat sobrius
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No man dances sober
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Gloria patri
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Glory to the Father
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Requiescat in pace
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Let him/her rest in peace. (May he/she rest in peace)
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Me iudice
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I being judge; in my judgement
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Insula gilliganis
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Gilligan's Island
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Arguendo
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For the sake of argument
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Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua
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The only good language is a dead language
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A cruce salus
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From the cross comes salvation
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Pistrix! Pistrix!
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Shark! Shark!
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Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare
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Well, if you don't understand plain Latin, I'm not going to dirty my hands on you
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Mendacem memorem esse oportet
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A liar needs a good memory. (Quintilianus)
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In alio pediculum, in te ricinum non vides
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You see a louse on someone else, but not a tick on yourself. (Petronius)
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Semper ubi sub ubi ubique
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Always wear underwear everywhere
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Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit
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Not much worth is an example that solves one quarrel with another. (Horace)
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Beatae memoriae
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Of blessed memory
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Fama semper vivat
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May his/her fame last forever
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Post obitum
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After death
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Sui generis
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Of one's own kind
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Imperator/Imperatrix (Imp.)
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Emperor/Empress
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Sit tibi terra levis
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May the earth be light upon you
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Oratvr fit, poeta nascitvr
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An orator is made [but] a poet is born
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Ab incunabulis
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From the cradle
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Re vera, potas bene
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Say, you sure are drinking a lot
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Gratia placenti
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For the sake of pleasing
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Veritas Lux Mea
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The truth enlightens me / The truth is my light
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Vagans
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Cruising
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Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis
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Unless you will have believed, you will not understand. (St. Augustine)
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Qui scribit bis legit
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He who writes reads twice
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Sic transit gloria mundi
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So passes the glory of the world
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Amor est vitae essentia
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Love is the essence of life. (Robert B. Mackay)
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Post tenebras lux
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After the darkness, light
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Omne initium est difficile
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Every beginning is difficult
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Caelum videre iussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus
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He bid them look at the sky and lift their faces to the stars. (Ovid)
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Ante meridiem (a.m.)
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Before midday
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Pax tecum
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May peace be with you (Singular)
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Dies natalis
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Birthday
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Aetatis (aet.)
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Age
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De minimis non curat praetor
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The authority or king, or law does not care about trivial things
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Vide ut supra
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See the above
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O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! Hem!
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Oh! More! Go on! Yes! Ooh! Ummm!
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Gaudeamus igitur (iuvenes dum sumus)
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Therefore, let us rejoice. (while we are young)
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Tintinnuntius meus sonat!
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There goes my beeper!
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Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus interpres
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As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word. (Horace)
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Onus probandi
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The burden of proof
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Ius civile
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Civil law
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Res judicata
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Thing already judged upon
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Latro! fremo!
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Woof woof! Grrrr!
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Id est (i.e.)
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That is to say
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Numerus clausus
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A restricted number
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In aere aedificare
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Build (castles) in the air. (St. Augustine)
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Nemine dissentiente (Nem. Diss.)
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With no one disagreeing
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Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur
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Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out
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Feles mala!
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Bad kitty!
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Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes
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Let us improve life through science and art. (Vergil)
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Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas
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It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. (Pliny the Younger)
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Cursum perficio
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My journey is over, or I finish my journey
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In media res
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In or into the middle of a sequence of events. (Horace)
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Ex mea sententia
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In my opinion
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Lex loci
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The law of the place
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Maxima debetur puero reverentia
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We owe the greatest respect to a child
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