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Latin Phrases and Quotes Starting with phrase number 1001
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- Decipimur specie recti - We are deceived by the appearance of right (Horace - Ars poetica)
- Defendi rem publicam adulescens; non deseram senex - I defended the republic as a young man; I shall not desert her now that I am old. ( - Thank you: Rich ) )
- Defensor pacis - Defender of the peace
- Dei Gratia - By the Grace of God (Expresses the divine rights of the monarchy - abbreviated as D.G)
- Dei Gratia Regina - By the Grace of God to the Kings (Expresses the divine rights of the monarchy - abbreviated as D.G.R.)
- Delenda est Carthago - Carthage must be destroyed (This is how Cato the Elder finalized his speeches - Also with Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam and Praeterea censeo ... )
- Delenda est Monarchia! - Monarchy must be destroyed (Part of an incendiary article by Ortega y Gasset in 1931, then famously used by the Republicans during the Spanish Second Republic, 1931 -1939, banned since 1939 here - Thanks Joaquin)
- Deliberando saepe perit occasio - In discussion dies opportunity (Too much discussion leads to too little action, which leads to lost of opportunity)
- Delirium tremens - Trembling Delirium (The "shakes" that heavy drinkers experience after going "cold turkey")
- Denique, caelum - At last, heaven
- Dente lupus, cornu taurus petit - The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn (Horace)
- Deo favente - God's favor
- Deo gratias - God's thank
- Deo ignoto - The Unknown God (Vulgate - Acts 17, 23; Saint Peter found this phrase inscribed in an altar in Athens Greece. He used this to tell the greeks that he will preach to them about a God that is unkown to them)
- Deo incognito - God Concealed (Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher, 1813-1855)
- Deo iuvante - With God's help (Monaco's motto)
- Deo Optimo Maximo - For God, the best and greatest (Bernardo Vincelli used it to label his bottles of Benedictine - abbreviated as DOM)
- Deo Patri sit gloria, et Filio qui a mortuis surrexit, ac Paraclito in saeculorum saecula - Glory to God the Father and the son who rose from the dead, and the Comforter Spirit, for ever and ever (Thus ends the ecclesiastical chant "Veni Creator Spiritus" -)
- Deo vindice - God our defender - God, our avenger. (Diplomatic term - is the motto of the Confederacy )
- Deo volente - God willing
- Derectum - Direct (Legal term - Right and Direct)
- Descendit ad inferios - Descended towards hell
- Desiderio desideravi hoc pascha manducare vobiscum - I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you (Vulgate - Luke 22,16 - Said by Jesus Christ at the last supper)
- Destruam et aedificabo - Destroy and build
- Detestatio sacrorum - Renouncement of his own sacra (Ecclesiastical term - Renunciation of preexisting religious obligations)
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