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Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 2141
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- Licentia loquendi - Freedom to speak (Diplomatic Term - permission or licenses to talk)
- Licentia poetica - Poetic license (Seneca)
- Lignum crucis - Wood of the cross
- Lignum vitae - Tree of Life (Book written by Arnold Wion in 1595 which recounts papal prophecies of Saint Malachy)
- Lilium et Rosa - Lily and Rose (Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) motto, according to St. Malachy prophecies - There is no association with his coat of arms, name or birth place. Some people say it is because of conflicts between France (Lily) and England (Rose))
- Lingua Franca - Common language (Diplomatic Term)
- Litis contestatio - Demand answered (Legal term )
- Litis denuntiatio - Demand Served (Legal term )
- Loco Citato - In the place cite (Often abbreviated as loc. cit.)
- Locus amoenus - Loving place, pleasant
- Locus dolenti - The place where it hurts (In medicine: To apply medicine on the place where it hurts)
- Locus eremus - Solitary place (Love phrase - Refers to sensations and feelings of anxiety, fear, uncertainty, unhappiness and loneliness)
- Locus regit actum - The venue, the act governing (Legal term)
- Locus sigilli - Place of the stamp
- Longa manu - With short hand (Legal term - With warrant - Ownership by contract - Compare with longa manu)
- Longam esse duorum temporum brevem unius etiam pueri sciunt - Even boys know that the one called long takes up two beats, and the one calles short, one (Quintilian Institutio oratoria IX, 4, 47)
- Lubrica Nox - Luxurious night
- Luce sunt clariora tua concilia omnia - All your advice is clearer than the light (Cicero)
- Lucem adspicio - See the light (Motto of the University of Costa Rica)
- Luceo non uro - I shine, I do not burn (Motto of the McKenzie clan)
- Lucernam adhibere in meridie - View the Sun with a flashlight (Erasmus, Dutch writer and scholar born in Rotterdam, 1467-1536)
- Lucidus ordo - A clear layout
- Lucrum cessans - Profit ceased (Legal term - Llost of the opportunity to make a profit)
- Luctor et Emergo - I struggle and come up (Motto of Zeeland, the province of the Netherlands which is mostly below sea level)
- Luctus terrenus est, Glorior est semper - Pain is temporary, Pride is forever
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