Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 2220

  1. 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)
  2. Mala digestio, nulla felicitas - Bad digestion, no happiness (Sentence that warns about excess eating.)
  3. Mala grammaticam non vitiat chartam - The misspellings or bad grammar do not invalidate a document (It means that if legible, it is valid)
  4. Mala praxis - Malpractice (Legal term - when a professional makes an error. For example: take a surgeon on trial for mala praxis)
  5. Mala sine cortica bona, cum cortica meliora - Apples are good without skin, but with skin there better
  6. Male parta, male dilabuntur - Badly acquired, badly disappears (Easy comes, easy goes)
  7. Malleus maleficarum - Witches' hammer (Prosecution of witches)
  8. Malo ad campanam quam ad tubae surgere clangorem - I prefer to rise to a bell than to the blare of a trumpet
  9. 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 )
  10. Malo miri quam fedari - Rather die than be disgraced
  11. Malo mori quam foedari - I'd rather die than get dirty (be disgraced) (Motto of the Vega family)
  12. Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium - I prefer freedom with danger, than slavery with security
  13. Malum consilium quod mutari non potest - A bad decision is one that can not be changed (Publius Sirus)
  14. Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono - There is no bad that will not come with good (Pliny the Elder in Naturalis Historia )
  15. Malum sed mulliere, sed necessarium malum - Women are evil, a necessary evil (Philosophical Term)
  16. Mancipatio - Formal legal act (Legal term - referring to particular things that can emancipate (mancipi) There are those also unable emancipate (nec mancipi) )
  17. Manduco me flumen de vobis - How I laugh at you (Macaronic Latin)
  18. 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)
  19. Mane vobiscum Domine - Stay with us, Lord
  20. 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)
  21. Manu militari - With a military hand (Diplomatic Term - Using weapons instead of agreements, alliances or dialogue)
  22. Manum misi in ignem - I put my hand in the fire (St. Jerome)
  23. Manumissio - Emancipation (Legal term - In Rome, act provision under which the slave is free and citizen)
  24. Manus manum lavat - One hand washes the other
  25. Mare magnum - Large Sea

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