Ab initio
From the beginning
Ab. Init.
Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!
Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
Caligula
Oderint, dum metuant
Let them hate (me) as long as they fear (me)
Caligula
Quos deus vult perdere prius dementat
Those whom a god wishes to destroy, they first make mad.
Odi et amo
I hate and I love
Catullus most famous poem
Statim
Immediately
STAT
Stet
Let it stand
Sine loco
Without a place
In the footnotes, used when a book publisher does not list a place of publication
Pro rata
For a fixed share
In proportion
Per se
Through itself
When a painting is good per se, it does not need to be framed
Opus citatem
The work having been sited
Op cit
Used in a footnote to refer the reader to a previously cited work, standing in for repetition of the full title of the work
Non scholae sed vitae discimus
We do not learn for school, but for life
Vellem nescire litteras
How I wish I'd never learned to write
Nero, signing his first death sentence of the condemned
Imo, ???? ?? ?????
Indeed, let it be while i am living
While listening to a play he heard the line: When I am dead let fire devour the world
Shortly before the fire of Rome
Quasi homines tandem habitare coepimus
Good, now we can at last begin to live like a human being
Nero
Qualis artifex pereo!
What an artist dies in me!
Nero's last words
Pecunia non olet
Money doesn't smell
Vespasian
Vae puto deus fio!
Alas, I think I'm becoming a god!
Vespasian's last words
Amici diem perdidi!
My friends, I have wasted a day!
Titus
Nec quemquam iam ferre potest Caesarve priorem, Pompeiusve paren
Caesar cannot tolerate a superior, nor Pompey an equal
Cicero
Si vis pacem, para bella
If you wish for peace, prepare for war
Nervos belli, pecuniam infintam
Endless money forms the sinews of war
Cicero
Nam si violandum est ius, regnandi gratia violandum est.
If the law must be violated, it must be violated only for the sake of gaining power.
Cicero quoting Caesar
Nihil per os
Nothing through the mouth
Medical instruction meaning to withhold oral foods and fluids from a patient
NPO
In extremis
In the end (moments of life)
Corpus delicti
The body of a crime
Caesar si viveret ad remum dareris
If Caesar were alive, you would be chained to an oar
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Let no one ignorant of geometry enter
Inscription above entrance to Plato's Academy