Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group S
(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)
Expressions of general truths: Latin to English maxims, proverbs, and mottoes
Word entries are from Latin unless otherwise indicated.
suo nomine
By its own name.
A physician's direction to a pharmacist that the label on the bottle containing the drug indicates the chemical name of the medicine.
suo periculo
At one's own peril.
Suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo.
I will cut this man's throat with his own sword.
"I will turn this man's arguments against himself"; according to the Roman writer, Terence.
suo tempore
At one's own time or at its own time.
Super visum corporis.
After viewing the body.
A term used at a coroner's inquest.
Sursum corda.
Lift up your hearts.
Motto of Haileybury College, U.K.
Suscipe Terra tuo de corpore sumptum.
Receive, O Earth, what was taken from thy body.
Epitaph of Pope Gregory the Great.
Units of mottoes and proverbs listed by groups: A to X.
