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Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 2976
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- Poenitentia Gloriosa - Glorious Penitence (Pope Alexander VIII (1689-1691) motto, according to St. Malachy prophecies - There is no association with his coat of arms, name or birth place. Some people say it is because he was named Peter, the apostle who repented after denying Christ)
- Poeta nascitur, non fit - The poet is born, is not mad
- Politico sine regio - Politician without a region (Found in many Catholic marriage entries)
- Pondus meum amor meus; eo feror, quocumque feror - My weight is my love; by that i am drawn wherever i am carried (Philosophical term - Augustine)
- Pontifex Maximus - Supreme Pontiff (Ecclesiastical Term - Refers to the Pope - Often abbreviated as P.M. or Pont. Max.)
- Popule meus, quid feci tibi? - My people, what have you done?
- Populo: Taceant, inquit, quibus Italia noverca, non mater est; et addidit - The people: be keep quiet, I say, Italy was a stepmother, not the mother - (Scipio Aemilianus said that a tribune in Rome in 132 BCE and the people considered it an insult and so began his political decline)
- Populorum progressio - The development of the people (Encyclical written by Pope Paul VI)
- Populum locuto, causa finita - If the people speak, there's nothing more to say
- Populus me sibilat at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca - People hiss at me, but I applaude myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest (Horace - Satire - on greed)
- Porro unum est necessarium - Only one thing is necessary (Vulgate - Said by Jesus Christ)
- Porta Scelerata - Criminal door (Historic site of ancient Rome)
- Posse Comitatus - Force of the County (Legal Term - Common Law)
- Posside sapientiam, quia auro melior est - Possessing wisdom is better than owning gold (Philosophical term)
- Possunt quia posse videntur - They can, because they think they can (Virgil)
- Post caritas Pestum - After charity plague
- Post coitum omne animal triste, nisi gallus qui canta - After intercourse every animal is sad, except the rooster that crows
- Post coitum tristitia - After intercourse sadness
- Post Data - After the date (Compare with Post Scriptum - Used in correspondence when a comment is added on a different day - abbreviated as PD)
- Post festum - After the party (too late)
- Post festum, pestum - After the holiday, plague.
- Post hoc, ergo propter hoc - After this, therefore as consequence of (Philosophical term used in logic - another version of Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, indicates a fallacy in reasoning, the preceding events could be irrelevant to the supposed effect)
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc - After this, therefore because of this (Legal and philosophical term - Fallacy that assumes that if it happened before, it must have caused it)
- Post imbren nescitur herba; post postrivium, verba - After the rain the grass grows, after the wine, the words.
- Post Meridiem - Past Meridian (Afternoon after 12:00 - abbreviated as PM)
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