Latin Phrases

• Salvete, Salve
• Quid agitis?, Quid agis? optime, bene, satis bene, male
• Romam a principio reges habuerunt (Tacitus)
• vae victis (Livy)
• Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque (Ennius)
• Carthago delenda est (Cato the Elder)
• prandi, potavi, scortum accubui (Plautus)
• Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (Terence)
• Metus hostilis in bonis artibus civitatem retinebat (Sallust)
• O tempora, o mores! (Cicero)

• veni, vidi, vici (Caesar)
• alea iacta est (Caesar)
• Catullus, Poem 85
  odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris
  nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
• Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.830
  nihil igitur mors est
• Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? (Cicero)
• Laudandus, ornandus, tollendus (Cicero on Octavian)
• Festina lente (a favorite saying of Octavian/Augustus)

• From Livy's Ab urbe condita

1. ego me etsi peccato absolvo, supplicio non libero (Lucretia)
   
2. et facere et pati fortia Romanum est (Mucius Scaevola)

• From Horace

1. carpe diem (from Odes 1.11)
   
2. nunc est bibendum (from Odes 1.37)
   
3. dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (from Odes 3.2)

• From the Aeneid

1. arma virumque cano
   
2. sunt lacrimae rerum
   
3. timeo Danaos et dona ferentis
   
4. tu... Romane... memento...
   parcere subjectis et debellare superbos

• Words attributed to some Julio-Claudian emperors

1. O homines ad servitutem paratos! (allegedly said by Tiberius about Roman senators)
   
2. Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet! (supposedly said by Caligula)
   

• Phrases connected with Nero

1. occidat, dum imperet (from Tacitus)
2. ventrem feri (from Tacitus)
3. qualis artifex pereo (from Suetonius)

• Petronius (probably ca. 26 CE- 66 CE):

1. arbiter elegantiae (Tacitus' description of Petronius)
2. cave canem (on fresco outside Trimalchio's door)

• Evulgato imperii arcano (Tacitus on the deposition of Nero)
• Puto deus fio (allegedly Vespasian's last words)
• Felicior Augusto, melior Traiano (Senate's wishes for new emperors)

From Juvenal

1. difficile est saturam non scribere
2. panem et circenses
3. mens sana in corpore sano

On Law

• Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus (Cicero).

On architecture

• Urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit (Augustus)

Some Graffiti from Pompeii

• C. Pumidius Dipilus Heic Fuit
• Augii Amat Allotenum
• Philiiros spado

Constantine

• In hoc signo vinces

Rome's Legacy

• Roma aeterna
• Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis