mottoes quotes and abbreviations quiz 2. carpe diem seize the day from the latin author horace the...
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carpe diemseize the day
from the Latin author Horace
The full thought is carpe diem quam minimum credula postero -
"enjoy today, trusting little in tomorrow"
cave canembeware of the dogexcavated from the ancient city of Pompeii in 1748 - which was destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
caveat emptor
let the buyer beware
the rule of law warning potential purchasers of goods or services they
are not protected during the transaction
cedant arma togalet arms/weapons
yield to the togamotto of Wyoming - military power
must be subordinate to civil authority
cogito, ergo sumI think, therefore I
amone of the most famous
philosophical sayings started by Descartes, a French Philosopher
cornucopiahorn of plenty
symbol of abundance
some stories say that Amalthea, who nursed Zeus as an infant, was a goat,
Zeus endowed the horn of the goat with the capability of producing whatever the
owner of the horn desired
corpus delictibody of the crimethe fact or set of facts needed to establish that a crime has been
committed. In murder, it is the proof that someone has been murdered
rather than just died.
Delenda est CarthagoCarthage must be destroyed
After the 2nd Punic War against Carthage, it was no longer a threat to Rome - but Cato the Elder egged on the Senate with this saying -
the Romans destroyed the city itself in the 3rd warironic reminder that a ruling clique in a
powerful nation can have its own way in crushing a powerless nations
Deus ex machinaa god out of a
machineit describes an unexpected occurrence that rescues someone or something from a hopeless predicament
emeritushaving served his
timehas it roots in Roman military tradition with the meaning "of a soldier who
served his time honorably" - in modern usage it is applied to a
university officer