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Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.] - Carmina (bk. II, 18, 15) [Day] Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium Nudus castra peti.] - Carmina (bk. III, 16, 22) [Desire] Penniless amid great plenty. [Lat., Magnas inter opes inops.] - Carmina (bk. III, 16, 28) [Poverty] Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough. [Lat., Multa petentibus Desunt multa. Bene est, cui Deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est manu.] - Carmina (bk. III, 16, 42) [Satisfaction] What does not destructive time destroy? [Lat., Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?] - Carmina (bk. III, 6, 45) [Time] The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove. [Lat., Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis; Est in juvenis, est in equibus patrum Virtus; nee imbellem feroces Progenerant aquilae columbam.] - Carmina (bk. IV, 4) [Ancestry : Proverbs] We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.] - Carmina (bk. IV, 7, l. 16) [Man] If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.] - Carmina (I, 1, 35) [Poets] And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. [Lat., Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores.] - Carmina (I, 12, 47) [Stars] Happy and thrice happy are they who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day. [Lat., Felices ter et amplius Quos irrupta tenet copula, nec malis Divulsus querimoniis Suprema citius solvet amor die.] - Carmina (I, 13, 17) [Matrimony] O daughter, more beautiful than thy lovely mother. [Lat., O matre pulchra filia pulchrior.] - Carmina (I, 16, 1) [Beauty] The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.] - Carmina (I, 17, 13) [Gods] Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.] - Carmina (I, 18), an imitation of Alcaeus in sense and meter [Trees] By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.] - adapted from Carmina (I, 18, 4) [Wine and Spirits] Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?] - Carmina (I, 18, 5) [Wine and Spirits] Red light hand. [Lat., Rubente dextra.] - Carmina (I, 2, 2) [Hand] If whole in life, and free from sin, Man needs no Moorish bow, nor dart Nor quiver, carrying death within By poison's art. [Lat., Integer vitae scelerisque purus Non eget Mauris incidis neque arcu Nec venernatis gravida sagittus Fusce pharetra.] - Carmina (I, 22, 1), (Gladstone's translation) [Character] What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus Tam cari capitis?] - Carmina (I, 24, 1) [Grief] It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia Quicquid corrigere est nefas.] - Carmina (I, 24, 19) [Patience] What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? [Lat., Cui pudor et justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?] - Carmina (I, 24, 6) [Modesty] The naked truth. [Lat., Nuda veritas. (Nudaque veritas.)] - Carmina (I, 24, 7) [Truth] One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti.] - Carmina (I, 28, 15) [Death] The human race afraid of nothing, rushes through every crime. [Lat., Audax omnia perpeti Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.] - Carmina (I, 3, 25) [Audacity] Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est: Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.] - Carmina (I, 3, 37) [Ambition] O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.] - Carmina (I, 32, 14) [Labor] Displaying page 16 of 25 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [16] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
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