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Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 2818
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- Ordinis San Benitus - Order of Saint Benedict (Benedictines - Abbreviated as O.S.B.)
- Ordinis San Franciscus - Order of Saint Francis (Franciscans - Abbreviated as O.S.F.)
- Ordo ad chao - The order over chaos (Written on the flag of the Supreme Council of the Brazilian Mazonaria)
- Ordo equester - Order of knights
- Ordo synodi episcoporum - Rules of the Bishops' Synod
- Orta recens quam pura nites - Newborn how bright you shine (Motto of New South Wales, Australia)
- Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri iussit et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus - The Creator gave man a gorgeous face and imposed him the mission to look up and see the stars. (Ovid - Metamorphosis I)
- Os iusti meditabitur sapientiam et lingua eius loquetur iudicium - The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom and his tongue tell his judgment (Philosophical term)
- Os umerosque deo similis - Similar to a god by his face and back (Vergilius - Aeneid)
- Ossa et ceneres Pii IX papae - Bones and ashes of Pope Pius IX (Phrase written in the tombstone of Pope Pius IX)
- Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura - Leisure without literature is death and burial of the man alive (Seneca)
- Ovidio exule, musae planguntur - The Muses wept because Ovid was exiled ... (History of Rome)
- Pabula da corvis, dement tibi lumina corvi - Raise ravens and they will pluck your eyes out
- Pacem in terris - Peace on Earth (Ecclesiastical term - Encyclical of Pope John XXIII)
- Pacta legem contractui dant - The pacts give the force of law to the contract (Legal term)
- Pacta sunt servanda - The pacts have met (It is a principle of international law, which states that an agreement or treaty between two nations should be respected by both)
- Paete, non dolet - Doesn’t hurt, Peto (Peto, according to Roman mythology, was sentenced to death, but he wanted to commit his suicide to challenge his judges. To lend support, his wife, Arria, was stabbed herself with a dagger and then passed to him by saying these words)
- Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres - The pale death strikes in similar fashion in the huts of the poor and in the palaces of kings (Horace - Odes Also mentioned in the Preface of "Don Quixote of the Mancha",1605, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
- Palma non sine labore - No palm wihouth effort
- Palma non sine pulvere - No palm wihouth dust
- Palmam qui meruit ferat - Let He Who Merits The Palm Possess It (Thank you: C. Gunter)
- Palmam qui meruit ferat - The glory is for those who deserve (Phrase is placed on the catafalque Horace Nelson, the hero of the Battle of Trafalgar [21-10-1805])
- Panem et circenses - Bread and Circus (Decimus Junius Juvenalis - Satire - Used to describe what the emperor had to do to placate the Roman crowd. Today is used to describe anything used to distract public attention from more serious matters)
- Panem probato levem, gravemque caseum - Eat light bread and heavy cheese. (To point out that bread is a simple guide to the cheese)
- Panis angelicus - Bread of Angels (Ecclesiastical term - Part of one of Hymns of Saint Thomas Aquinas)
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