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Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 2254
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- Matrum ornamenta liberi sunt - The children are their mother adornment.
- Maxima debetur puero reverentia - A child is owed the greatest respect (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
- Maxima est capitis deminutio, cum aliquis simul et civitatem et libertatem amittit - The maximum decrease in rights occurs when a person loses freedom and citizenship (Legal term in ancient Rome)
- Me Caesar incestam putat, qua sacra faciente vicit triumphavit! - Caeser thinks I committed incest, when as long I carried out the sacred rites he has been victorious and triumphant (Pliny the younger - Words of vestal Corenelia, when she was tried and executed by Domitian)
- Me fallit - I was fooled
- Me lumen; vos umbra regit - Light is my guide, the shadow is yours (Legal term - Refers to the intentionality of certain facts, knowing good is light and dark is evil)
- Me, me adsum qui feci - I, I was the one who did it (Legal term - confession)
- Mea culpa - My fault (Ecclesiastical term - Is always in a context of recognizing something wrong, apologizing, etc. For example "I confess I am a sinner")
- Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa - My fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault (Prayer of confession at the Catholic Mass)
- Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo - My conscience is more important to me than any speech (Cicero)
- Medice cura te ipsum - Medic, cure yourself (It is used when someone gives advice that does not apply to your life)
- Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant - The doctors cured with harsh remedies (Fifth Curcio, Roman historian s. I, author of Life of Alexander the Great)
- Medicinae Doctoris - Medicine Doctor (University Degree - abbreviated as MD)
- Medico meo omnis horae - For my doctor of all hours (Phrase engraved on the watch given by a patient to a doctor)
- Meditationes de cognitione, veritate et ideis - Reflections on the knowledge, truth and ideas (Work of Leibniz)
- Medium Corpus Pilarum - Half Body of the Pills (Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585) motto, according to St. Malachy prophecies - He was cardinal by Pius V who was a medic, the ones who give out medicine balls, or pills. His coat of arms had a half dragon )
- Melior est canis vivus leone mortuo - Better a live dog than a dead lion
- Melior est im via, amor Dei quam Dei cognitio - In this live it is better to love God, than to know him (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
- Melior est in inferno regnare quam in coelo servire - It is better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven (John Milton)
- Melioribus annis - In better times
- Melius esse iudicans pharisaeorum displicere iudicio et episcoporum iussionibus deservire - It is better to oppose the judgment of the Pharisees and to obey the ordinances of bishops (St. Jerome)
- Melius est flerisse quam flere - It is better to have cried, than to cry
- Melius est habere quam habuisse - It is better to have, than to have had
- Melius est pede quam labi lingua - It is better to slip with the foot, than with the tongue
- Mellita domi adsum - Honey, I'm hom
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