Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 2554

2554. Noctuas Athenas afferre - Taking owls to Athens (Similar to "selling ice to Eskimos" - Owls were a real plague in Athens)
2555. Nolens volens - Like it Or not
2556. Noli equi dentes inspicere donati - Do not look a gift horse in the mouth
2557. Noli foras ire, in teipsum reddi; in interiore homine habitat veritas - Dont' lose your self, return to you, inside of you lives the truth (Augustine)
2558. Noli me tangere! - Do not touch me! (Vulgate - John 20, 17 - Said by Jesus Christ to Mary Magdalene - In medicine it refers to those organs (e.g. the heart) that not should be operated.)
2559. Noli me vocare ego te vocabo - Do not call me, I will call you
2560. Noli tangere meos circles - Do not touch my circle (Archimedes to a Roman soldier, before he killed him in Syracuse, fearing that the soldier will erase the circles he was drawing in the sand)
2561. Noli tangere, sed vide - Look, but don't touch
2562. Noli timere malum, sed time heroa - Do not fear the villain, fear the hero (From the series The Library)
2563. Nolite mitere margaritas ante porcos - Do not throw daisies at pigs (Vulgate - Matthew 7.6)
2564. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum - Don't let the bastards grind you down
2565. Nomen est omen - The name is everything
2566. Nomen iuris - Legal name (Legal Term - Principle that says that legal words must reflect reality)
2567. Nomina magna sequor - We follow the greatest (Inscribed in a Mexican gold coin in 1760 and 1761 - Had the face of Charles III on the other side)
2568. Nomina Numina - Names are auspices
2569. Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum - If you do not know the name of things, you lose all knowledge of them (Carlos Linnaeus (1707-1778), who is considered the father of the zoological taxonomy)
2570. Non aeternum pluit - It does not rain forever
2571. Non audimus ea quae ab natura monemur - We do not notice the things that nature warns us about (Cicero - Laelius De Amicitia)
2572. Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro - Freedom is not for sale any amount of gold (Words mentioned in the Preface of "Don Quixote de la Mancha" - 1605 - by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
2573. Non bis in idem - Not the same thing twice (Legal term - Principle of double jeopardy - Nobody can be tried twice for the same offense)
2574. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat - It is not the heat, it is the humidity that is uncomfortable (That is why we prefer “dry heat”)
2575. Non causa pro causa - No reason for the cause (Legal term - used to argue the lack of basis when claiming a right)
2576. Non cives: Liberti et servi - Non-citizens: freemen and slaves (Social class during the Republican era in ancient Rome)
2577. Non compos mentis - Without control of his mind (Crazy)
2578. Non culum batum belli, culum batum culum mortis - Queers do not go to war. Fag that goes, fag that dies (It is an expression used when someone is afraid of something)

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