Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 3236

3236. Quia contrivit portas aereas et vectes ferreos confregit - Because (we) crushed the towering city gates and have arrived in armour to destroy ( This is the motto of the St Ferdinand army of Spain and it was adopted by the parish of St Ferdianad in Lucena City Philippines as its masthead in the altar of the church. It speaks of the conquistadores's painstaking effort of subduing the ancient armies of the prehistoric islands. - Thank you: Roger M. Villar )
3237. Quia ipse mecum non possum - Because I cannot (litigate) against myself (Legal term - Gaius, Roman jurist (II c) 4.78 Digest)
3238. Quia semper necessitas probandi incumbit illi qui agit - Because the need to prove that demand is always on the claimant (Legal term - Marcian, Emperor of Constantinople (390-457) 22,3,21 Digest)
3239. Quibus rebus Roman nuntiatis tantus repente terror invasit - Upon learning this news, an intense, sudden fear invaded Rome (Julius Caesar - De Bello Civili )
3240. Quicquid temptabat scribere versus erat - Anything I tried to write, comes out as a verse (Phrase that emphasizes the "naturalness" of Ovid)
3241. Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam ignovis etiam iocus est in casu gravi - He who falls from the old grandeur, becomes a toy in his disgrace, the most despicable being (Phaedrus)
3242. Quid - What, why, how many, for what (the thing, the essence, the reason, the cause)
3243. Quid autem vocatis me Domine Domine et non facitis quae dico - Why call me, Lord, Lord, and not do what I say? (Said by Jesus Christ - Vulgate - Luke 6, 46)
3244. Quid dicam de thesauro rerum omnium memoria? - What shall I say of memory, repository of all knowledge? (Cicero - De senectute)
3245. Quid divinum - Something divine (Designates the very inspiration of genius)
3246. Quid ergo est tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; Si quaerente explicare velim, nescio - What is time? If no one asks me, I know. But if I want to explain to someone who asks, then I do not know. (St. Augustine)
3247. Quid est veritas? - What is truth (Vulgate - John 18, 38)
3248. Quid est veritas? est vir qui adest - What is truth? It is a man who is present.
3249. Quid faciant leges, ubi sola pecunia regnat? - What can laws do, where only money reigns? (Philosophical term)
3250. Quid Gloriam habet - Be in glory (Epitaph - Equivalent to RIP - Abbreviated as q.G.h.)
3251. Quid pro quo - This for that (In exchange - refers to the correspondence sought in a deal, also to take one thing for another, by mistake)
3252. Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - Anything said in Latin sounds smart
3253. Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur - Why are you laughing? Just change the name and the fable is about you (Horace)
3254. Quid sibi ergo vult septenarius iste? Nescio enim an ita simplex quispiam in nobis sit, qui otiosas esse has vices, et numerum hunc putet fortuitum - What then does that number seven mean? I wonder if anyone among us is so ingenuous as to think that those yawnings of the boy were devoid of import, their number fortuitous (St. Bernardus Clairval - Cantica Canticorum - Sermo XVI, 1)
3255. Quid tandem te impedit? mosne maiorum? - What hinders you? the customs of the ancestors? (Cicero In Catilinam)
3256. Quid ultra faciam? - What else should we do? (Motto of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)
3257. Quid vitae sectabor iter? - What kind of life should I follow? (Rene Descartes)
3258. Quidam - Any (To refer to someone or someone insignificant)
3259. Quidquid discis tibi discis - What you learn, you learn it for you (Gaius Petronius, a Roman poet of the first century, Satyricon 46.8)
3260. Quidquid facies, respice ad mortem - Whatever you do, contemplate death. (Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium XIX, 114, 27)

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