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Latin Phrases and Quotes Starting with phrase number 2216
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- Maior sum quam qui mancipium sim corporis mei - I'm too big to be a slave of my body (Philosophical term put forward as the antithesis of the old Socratic thesis that said: The body is the prison of the soul.) )
- Maiora pluraque in vita facienda sunt quam vivere - There are more and greater things to do in life than live ( Thank you: Eugene )
- Maiores aliud ius gentium, aliud ius civile esse voluerunt - The elders wanted one thing to be right of nations, the other thing to be the civil law (Legal term)
- Mala digestio, nulla felicitas - Bad digestion, no happiness (Sentence that warns about excess eating.)
- Mala grammaticam non vitiat chartam - The misspellings or bad grammar do not invalidate a document (It means that if legible, it is valid)
- Mala praxis - Malpractice (Legal term - when a professional makes an error. For example: take a surgeon on trial for mala praxis)
- Mala sine cortica bona, cum cortica meliora - Apples are good without skin, but with skin there better
- Male parta, male dilabuntur - Badly acquired, badly disappears (Easy comes, easy goes)
- Malleus maleficarum - Witches' hammer (Prosecution of witches)
- Malo ad campanam quam ad tubae surgere clangorem - I prefer to rise to a bell than to the blare of a trumpet
- Malo hic esse primus quam Romae secundus - I prefer to be first in this place than to be second at Rome. (Julius Caesar, according to Plutarch )
- Malo miri quam fedari - Rather die than be disgraced
- Malo mori quam foedari - I'd rather die than get dirty (be disgraced) (Motto of the Vega family)
- Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium - I prefer freedom with danger, than slavery with security
- Malum consilium quod mutari non potest - A bad decision is one that can not be changed (Publius Sirus)
- Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono - There is no bad that will not come with good (Pliny the Elder in Naturalis Historia )
- Malum sed mulliere, sed necessarium malum - Women are evil, a necessary evil (Philosophical Term)
- Mancipatio - Formal legal act (Legal term - referring to particular things that can emancipate (mancipi) There are those also unable emancipate (nec mancipi) )
- Manduco me flumen de vobis - How I laugh at you (Macaronic Latin)
- Mane nobiscum quoniam advesperascitt - Stay with us Lord, because it's getting late. (Vulgate - Luke 24, 29 - Petition of the disciples on the road to Amaus Gospels)
- Mane vobiscum Domine - Stay with us, Lord
- Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc
Parthenope; Cecini pascua, rura, duces - Mantua gave me birth; Calabrian took me away ( Today they have me) Partenope holds me. I sang of pastures, farms, leaders (Virgil epitaph) - Manu militari - With a military hand (Diplomatic Term - Using weapons instead of agreements, alliances or dialogue)
- Manum misi in ignem - I put my hand in the fire (St. Jerome)
- Manumissio - Emancipation (Legal term - In Rome, act provision under which the slave is free and citizen)
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