Latin Phrases

Front 1

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur.

Back 1

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in our Gauls, the third.

Front 2

Flamma fumo est proxima

Back 2

Fire is near to smoke

Front 3

Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt.

Back 3

All these differ from each other in language, customs and laws.

Front 4

Gallos ab Aquitanis Garumna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et Sequana dividit.

Back 4

The river Garonne separates the Gauls from the Aquitani; the Marne and the Seine separate them from the Belgae.

Front 5

Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.

Back 5

Of all these, the Belgae are the bravest, because they are furthest from the civilization and refinement of [our] Province, and merchants least frequently resort to them, and import those things which tend to effeminate the mind; and they are the nearest to the Germans, who dwell beyond the Rhine , with whom they are continually waging war