Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group Q
(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.
The collective name given by the schoolmen (educators) of the Middle Ages to the four "liberal arts"; viz., arithmetic, music, geography, and astronomy.
The quadrivium was the "fourfold way" to knowledge; the trivium, to the "threefold way" to eloquence; both together compiled the Seven Liberal Arts enumerated in the following hexameter: Lingua, Tropus, Ratio, Numerus, Tonus, Angulus, Astra; or the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, comprising geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music .
This thought is attributed to St. Ambrose and is translated in a short version as, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." The primary advice is to follow the local customs.
Medical directions indicating that the quantity may be as much or as little as you like.
A term used on medical prescriptions to indicate that as much of a certain component should be used as is sufficient, a decision left to the pharmacist.
Used in medical prescriptions. Don't confuse this q.v. with the Quod vide; (q.v.) meaning, "which [you should] see".
Used in medical prescriptions.
Instructions given by a pharmacist.
Used in medical prescriptions.
It is also translated as, "Only the good die young." This statement is a translation into Latin made by Plautus in the Bacchides of a line by Menander, a fourth-century Greek dramatist.
Units of mottoes and proverbs listed by groups: A to X.