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Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 2730
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- O sacrum convivium, in quo Christus sumitur, recolitur memoria passionis ejus, mens impletur gratia, et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur - O sacred banquet, in which Christ is consumed, the memory of his passion is recalled, the soul is filled with grace and gives us a pledge of future life (Anthem of the Eucharist)
- O sancta simplicitas ! - Oh holy simplicity! (That phrase is attributed to John Huss who said this while he was being burned at a stake and someone zealously threw wood on the fire)
- O si sic homnia! - If they were all like that! (It is a form of praise that implies that if all the things or if all people were a certain way or behave the same way, the world would be a much better place)
- O socii (neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum), o passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem vos et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantis accestis scopulos, vos et Cyclopia saxa experti. revocate animos maestumque timorem mittite; forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - O friends (for we were not unknown to prior evils) O you who’ve endured worse, the god will grant an end to this too. You’ve faced rabid Scylla, and her deep-sounding cliffs. and you’ve experienced the Cyclopes’s rocks. remember your courage and chase away gloomy fears. (Virgil - The Aeneid I 22)
- O tempora! O mores! - Oh Times, Oh Customs (Cicero - Catilinarian (intro) - It is an expression of nostalgia for past times and customs)
- Obedientia et Pax - Obedience and Peace (John XXIII’s episcopal motto)
- Obiit sine prole - He died without descendants - (Expression that is used in genealogical works - Abbreviated as o.s.p.)
- Obiter dicta - Said in passing (Legal term - A statement that is not binding)
- Obligatio est iuris vinculum, quo necessitate adstringimur alicuius solvendae rei secundum nostrae civitatis iuria - Obligation is a legal bond that compels us as of necessity to render something under the laws of our city (Legal term - Justinian -Definition of obligation by Roman law. Concept of civil obligations)
- Oboedientia tutior - Obedience Is the Safer Path (Motto taught to priests in seminaries)
- Obscurum per obscurium - Dark from darker
- Observes ne in terram nimium aridam aut variam, sed temperatam, semen demittas - Pay attention not to cast your seed into a land too arid or too variant, but tempered (Varro - De Re Rustica, I, 42)
- Obsides imperare hostibus - Require hostages to the enemy
- Obviam primus - The first to Engage (Motto of the squadron that supports the deployment of the Spanish Air Force)
- Ocassus Servitutis - Decline of servitude (Motto in the shield of the state of Carabobo, Venezuela)
- Occasio furem facit - The opportunity makes the thie
- Occasio legis - Conditions that generated the law (Legal term)
- Occidente sole - At sunset (Cicero)
- Oculis et unguibus aeque victrix - By eyes and claws, equally victorious (Phrase rebel flag of Mexico)
- Oculos habent et non videbunt - They have eyes and will not see
- Oculum pro oculo, et dentem pro dente - An eye for eye, tooth for tooth (Vulgate, Exodus 41.24)
- Oculus domini pascit equum - Under the owner's eye, the horse eats
- Oderint dum metuant - Let them hate so long as they fear (Lucius Accius)
- Oderit dum me tuant - Order me, while you fear me
- Odi et amo - I love and hate
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