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30 Cards in this Set
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odi et amo
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CATULLUS
(I hate and I love) |
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lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque
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CATULLUS
(mourn of Venuses and Cupids!) |
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apage, Santanas!
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THE BIBLE
(Get thee behind me, Satan!) |
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ars poetica
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HORACE
(the art of poetry) *(title of a book) |
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Aurea mediocritas
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HORACE
(the golden mean) |
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auri sacra fames
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VERGIL
(the accursed greed for gold) |
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Veritas numquam perit
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SENECA
(Truth never perishes) |
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
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HORACE
(it is sweet and proper to die for one's country) |
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miles gloriosus
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PLAUTUS
(a bragging soldier) *(title of a play) |
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nil admirari
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HORACE
(be surprised at nothing) |
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ohe! iam satis est!
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TERENCE
(Oh, that's enough) |
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vade in pace
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THE BIBLE
(go in peace) |
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temporis ars medicina fere est
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OVID
(time is a great healer) |
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tempus abire tibi est
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HORACE
(make way for someone else) |
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lupus est homo homini
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PLAUTUS
(man is a wolf to man) |
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odi profanum vulgus et arceo
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HORACE
(I hate the uninitiated crowd and bid them avaunt) |
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atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale!
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CATULLUS
(and forever brother, hail and farewell) |
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ut ameris, amabilis esto
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OVID
(so that you may be loved, be loveable) |
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aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus
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HORACE
(you can't win them all) |
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est unusquisque faber ipsae suae fortunae
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APPIUS CLAUDIUS CAECUS
(every man is master of his own fate) |
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in nova fert animus mutates dicere formas corpora
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OVID
(my mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms) |
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mendacem memorem esse oportere
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QUINTILIAN
(liars should have good memories) |
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ab urbe condita
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LIVY
(from the founding of the city) *(title of a work) |
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bruta fulmina et vana
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PLINY
(thunderbolts that strike blindy and in vain) *(also rendered as brutum fulmen - an empty threat) |
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de nihilo nihil
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LUCRETIUS
(from nothing, nothing can come) |
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dis aliter visum
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VERGIL
(to the gods it seemed otherwise) |
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disiecta membra
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HORACE
(scattered parts) |
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facilis descensus averni
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VERGIL
(it is easy to go down to Avernus) |
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fidus Achates
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VERGIL
(a faithful friend) |
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haud passibus aequis
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VERGIL
(with lagging step) |
