LatinTranslationNoteshabeas corpus[we command] that you have the body [brought up]A legal term from the 14th century or earlier. Refers to a number of legal writs requiring a jailer to bring a prisoner in person (hence corpus) before a court or judge, most commonly habeas corpus ad subjiciendum ("that you have the body [brought up] for the purpose of subjecting [the case to examination]"). Commonly used as the general term for a prisoner's legal right to challenge the legality of their detention.habemus papamwe have a popeUsed after a Catholic Church papal election to announce publicly a successful ballot to elect a new pope.habent sua fata libelliBooks have their destiny [according to the capabilities of the reader]Terentianus Maurus, De litteris, de syllabis, de metris, 1:1286.with this lawone day, this will be pleasing to rememberCommonly rendered in English as "One day, we'll look back on this and smile". From Virgil's Aeneid 1.203. Also, motto of Handsworth Grammar School, and the Jefferson Society.haec ornamenta mea [sunt]"These are my ornaments" or"These are my jewels"Attributed to Cornelia Africana (talking about her children) by Valerius Maximus in Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX, IV, 4, incipit.Original text at The Latin Library.Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX, IV, IV, incipit.Hannibal at the gatesFound in Cicero's first Philippic and in Livy's Ab urbe conditaHannibal was a fierce enemy of Rome who almost brought them to defeat.Sometimes rendered "Hannibal ante portas", with similar meaning: "Hannibal before the gates"I speak not of unknown thingsThus, "I say no things that are unknown". From Virgil's Aeneid, 2.91.. Oh me! love can not be cured by herbs From Ovid's Metamorphoses, I, 523.here lions aboundWritten on uncharted territories of old maps; see also: here be dragons.here and nowThe imperative motto for the satisfaction of desire. "I need it, Here and Now"here and everywhere (HJ)here liesAlso rendered . Written on gravestones or tombs, preceding the name of the deceased. Equivalent to (here is buried), and sometimes combined into (HJS), "here lies buried".This is the place where death delights in helping lifeA motto of many morgues or wards of anatomical pathology.here we will remain most excellentlyAccording to Titus Livius the phrase was pronounced by Marcus Furius Camillus, addressing the senators who intended to abandon the city, invaded by Gauls, circa 390 BC. It is used today to express the intent to keep one's position, even if the circumstances appear adverse.here the dead live and the mute speakinscription on several librarieshic Rhodus, hic saltaHere is Rhodes, jump hereFrom the Latin version of "The Boastful Athlete" in Aesop's Fables"The Boastful Athlete", from Aesop's Fables as formulated by Erasmus in his Adagia. An athlete brags about his impressive jump at a past event in Rhodes, whereupon he is challenged to reproduce it then and there, not merely boast. In other words, prove what you can do, here and now. Cited by Hegel and Marx.hic sunt draconeshere there are dragonsWritten on a globe engraved on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs, dated to 1504.hic sunt leoneshere there are lionsWritten on uncharted territories of old maps.from both sideshinc illae lacrimaehence those tearsFrom Terence, Andria, act 1, line 126.Andria, act 1 by Terence, 166 BC (in Latin) Originally literal, referring to the tears shed by Pamphilus at the funeral of Chrysis, it came to be used proverbially in the works of later authors, such as Horace (Epistulae 1.XIX:41).Epistulae, book 1, epistle XIX by Horace, 20 BC (in Latin)from here the way leads to the starsWritten on the wall of the old astronomical observatory of Vilnius University, Lithuania, and the university's motto.herefore strength and safetyMotto of the Central Bank of Sweden.historia vitae magistrahistory, the teacher of lifeFrom Cicero's De Oratore, II, 9. Also "history is the mistress of life".do thisMotto of Bradford Grammar SchoolThis is warTo know Christ is to know his benefitsFamous dictum by the Reformer Melanchthon in his Loci Communes of 1521For this is my BodyThe words of Jesus reiterated in Latin during the Roman Catholic Eucharist. Sometimes simply written as or "This is my body".All that crowd/peopleFrom Horace's Satires, 1/2:2. Refers to the crowd at Tigellio's funeral (c. 40–39 BC). Not to be confused with et hoc genus omne ().Today for me, tomorrow for you Inscription that can be seen on tombstones dating from the Middle Ages, meant to outline the ephemerality of life.It is of man that my page smellsFrom Martial's Epigrams, Book 10, No. 4, Line 10; stating his purpose in writing.Treat the man, not the diseaseMotto of the Far Eastern University – Institute of Nursingman is a bubble Varro (116 BC – 27 BC), in the opening line of the first book of Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres, wrote (for if, as they say, man is a bubble, all the more so is an old man)Res Rusticae – De agri cultura later reintroduced by Erasmus in his Adagia, a collection of sayings published in 1572.homo homini lupusman [is a] wolf to manFirst attested in Plautus' Asinaria (). The sentence was drawn on by Thomas Hobbes in De Cive as a concise expression of his views on human nature.Man, the servant and interpreter of natureMotto of the Lehigh UniversityOne is innocent until proven guiltySee also: presumption of innocence.a man without money is the image of death Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum putoI am a human being; I think that nothing human is strange to meFrom Terence's Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor) (163 BC). Originally "strange" or "foreign" (alienum) was used in the sense of "irrelevant", as this line was a response to the speaker being told to mind his own business, but it is now commonly used to advocate respecting different cultures and being humane in general. homo unius libria man of a single bookAttributed to Thomas Aquinas: «Hominem unius libri timeo» “I fear a man of a single book.”honesty before gloryMotto of King George V School, Hong Konghonesty and virtue flourish after deathinscribed in the stonework in Paolo Veronese's (1565 c.) Painting Allegory of Virtue and Viceesteem is the reward of virtueMotto of Arnold School, Blackpool, Englandfor the sake of honorSaid of an honorary title, such as "Doctor of Science honoris causa"the hour fleesSee tempus fugit (h.s.)at the hour of sleepMedical shorthand for "at bedtime"I do not count the hours unless they are sunnyA common inscription on sundials.I shudder as I tellFrom Virgil's Aeneid, 2.204, on the appearance of the sea-serpents who kill the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sonshorrible to saycf. mirabile dictuhorror vacuifear of the emptyphenomenon in art and hypothesis in philosophyA garden in the cityMotto of the Chicago Park District, a playful allusion to the city's motto, urbs in horto, q.v.A dry gardenA collection of dry, preserved plantshostis humani generisenemy of the human raceCicero defined pirates in Roman law as being enemies of humanity in general.humility conquers pridehypotheses non fingoI do not fabricate hypothesesFrom Newton, Principia. Less literally, "I do not assert that any hypotheses are true".
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