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Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 2993
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- 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)
- Post mortem - After the death (Autopsy)
- Post mortem nihil est - After death there’s nothing
- Post mortem nihil, ipsaque mors nihil - After the death nothing, death itself is nothing (Seneca)
- Post Nubila Phoebus - After darkness theres light (Motto of the University of Zulia in Venezuela)
- Post partum - After delivery
- Post pisces nux sit, post carnes caseus adsit - After fish, nuts; After the of meat, cheese (Medical advise to separate these foods)
- Post Scriptum - Written after (Compare with Post Data - Used in correspondence when a comment is added later on the same day - abbreviated as PS)
- Post tenebras lux - The light after darkness
- Post tenebras spero lucem - I hope there’s light after darkness (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Motto of Don Quixote of the Mancha. In his shield next to a falcon and a lion)
- Posteris lumen moriturus edat - After death give light to the future (Motto of Cauca University in Popayan, Colombia)
- Postmeridianus - Belonging to past meridian (PM - In the afternoon, after 12:00)
- Postmoerium - After the wall (hence "pomerium or pomoerium", which was the border of the holy city of Rome)
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