Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Latin

Important Notice:
7/2010 - The Department regrets that it will not be able to offer any Latin courses at this time and that no new applications for the Latin Minor are currently being accepted.

Latin Proverbs:

Claude os, aperi oculos!

Translation: "Shut your mouth, open your eyes."

Pacem in Terris

Translation: "Peace on Earth"

Scio me nihil scire

Translation: "I know that I know nothing" (Socrates)

Veni Vidi vici

Translation: "I came, I saw, I Conquered" Said by Gaius Julius Ceasar refering to his campaign in Pontus.

Bellum se ipsum alet

Translation: "Let war pay for itself."

Latin Proverbs:

Age quod agis

Translation: "Do what you do", in the sense of "Do well what you do", "Do well in whatever you do" or "Be serious in what you do"

Amor vincit omnia

Translation: "Love conquers all". Often quoted in this form, but originally Omnia vincit amor (same translation) ((Virgil, Eclogues 10:69).

Carpe diem

Translation: "Seize the day." By Horace, Odes I,11,8, to Leuconoe: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero ("take hold of the day, believing as little as possible in the next"). The verb "carpere" has the literal meaning "to pick, pluck," particularly in reference to the picking of fruits and flowers, and was used figuratively by the Roman poets to mean "to enjoy, use, make use of."

Bona fide

Translation: "In good faith."