A remarkable number of English words have Latin origins, and many Latin phrases are still used untranslated by English stylists. Here are a selection of 45 Latin phrases you could use in your blogs to add a little classicist feel and erudition to your endeavours. From John o’London.
A remarkable number of English words have Latin origins, and many Latin phrases are still used untranslated by English stylists. Here are a selection of 45 Latin phrases you could use in your blogs to add a little classicist feel and erudition to your endeavours. From John o’London.
45 Latin Phrases for your Website
Annus mirabilis
A year of wonders
Apologia pro vita sua
A defence of a personal career or of the conduct of his life
Ars longa, vita brevis
Art is long, life short
Bis dat qui cito dat
He gives twice who gives quickly
Causus belli
A cause or reason for war
Compos mentis
Of sound mind
Cum grano salis
With a pinch of salt
De facto
In fact, by virtue of the fact
De profundis
From the depths
De novo
From the beginning again
Deus ex machina
A god from the machine
Disjecta membra
Scattered parts or fragments
Dum spiro, spero
Where there is life there is hope
Ex cathedra
From the chair, with authority
Exeunt omnes
All go out
Ex libris
From the books of
Ex nihil nihil fit
Out of nothing nothing comes
Ex officio
By virtue of his office
Facile princeps
An easy first
Felo de se
A felon upon himself (applied to certain suicides)
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The Christian Right is trying to rewrite the history of the United States as part of its campaign to force its religion on others. They try to depict the founding fathers as pious Christians who wanted the United States to be a Christian nation, with laws that favored Christians and Christianity. It is patently untrue. The early presidents and patriots were generally Deists or Unitarians, believing in some form of impersonal Providence but rejecting the divinity of Jesus and the absurdities of the Old and New Testaments.
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The night time seducers of women were called incubi, of men succubi. Curiously nuns more than once, according to Carl Sagan, said the incubus that visited them by night closely resembled the priest-confessor or the bishop, and, more curiously still, they awoke the next day, as a contemporary chronicler put it, to “find themselves polluted just as if they had commingled with a man”.
