User:Ch4zm/November 2022/Mottoes

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Sacramento Boot Lickers:

  • Mors lupi agnis vita
  • The death of the wolf is life to the lambs



Ideas

Links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Latin_mottos

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~jkmacmul/genealogy/namemeanings-coatofarms/mottoes_H.html

https://www.leges.org/List-of-Latin-Mottos/

A

Annuit cœptis: He approved the undertakings

from Virgil's Aenid: "...audacibus adnue coeptis."

  • It is a prayer by Ascanius, the son of the hero of the story, Aeneas
  • it translates to, "Jupiter Almighty, favour my bold undertakings", just before slaying an enemy warrior, Numanus.


Ad astra per aspera: To the stars through difficulties

  • Kansas state motto
  • Ad is a Latin preposition expressing direction toward in space or time
  • Astra is the accusative plural form of the Latin word astrum 'star' (from Ancient Greek ἄστρον astron 'star', from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ster-).[5]

C

Crescit eundo: It grows as it goes

  • New Mexico state motto
  • From Lucretius' De rerum natura book VI, where it refers in context to the motion of a thunderbolt across the sky, which acquires power and momentum as it goes. This metaphor was adapted as the state motto of New Mexico (adopted in 1887 as the territory's motto, and kept in 1912 when New Mexico received statehood) and is seen on the seal. Also the motto of Rocky Mount, Virginia and Omega Delta Phi.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(C)#crescit_eundo

D

Dum spiro spero: While I breathe, I hope

Dum spiro despero: While I breathe, I despair --> BTX.png Baltimore Texas

I

inveniam viam aut faciam: I shall either find a way, or make one.

  • The phrase has been attributed to Hannibal; when his generals told him it was impossible to cross the Alps by elephant, this was supposedly his response.

R

Reid: "Fortitudine et labore"

  • By fortitude and exertion
  • fortitude - courage in the face of adversity
  • exertion - the application of a force

Rendell:

  • Mors lupi agnis vita
  • The death of the wolf is life to the lambs

Richards:

  • Nec sperno, nec timeo
  • I neither spurn nor fear
  • (spurn -> despise)

Richardson:

  • Semper fidelis
  • Always faithful

Richardson

  • Labor vincit omnia
  • Labor conquers all things

(reap what you sow?)

Vae victis - woe to the conquered

  • 390 BCV
  • army of Gauls led by Brennus
  • attacked Rome, Romans ransomed hte city
  • 1,000 lbs of gold
  • Gauls provided weights, weighed the gold, it came up short
  • Romans claimed it was rigged and complained
  • Brennus then threw his word on the scale: "Vae victis!"
  • more gold

S

Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice: If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you

  • State motto of Michigan
  • Could use this for Detroit - if you seek a cursed peninsula, look about you

U

ubi amor, ibi dolor: where there is love, there is pain

ubi labor, ibi dolor: (work/pain)

ubi arbor, ibi dolor: (a tree/pain)

ubi uxor, ibi dolor: (wife/pain) (alewife?)

google translate

SFBS.png San Francisco Boat Shoes :

  • Pro gloria et fama et fortuito infamatus est (For glory and fame and a chance to become infamous)

DET.png Detroit Grape Chews :

  • Sed terrae graviora manent (But on earth, worse things await - Virgil, Aeneid 6:84)

AA.png Alewife Arsonists :

  • Sic semper non est combustum (thus always to that which remains unburned)

BB.png Boylston Boogers :

  • Thesaurus qui non quaesitur non invenietur (treasure that is not sought shall not be found)

SDBA.png San Diego Balloon Animals :

  • Si comprehendis, non est Animalis (If you understand it, it is not The San Diego Balloon Animals)

SS.png Seattle Sneakers :

  • Sine metu (Without fear)

BTX2.png Baltimore Texas II :

  • Post tenebras spero lucem (After darkness, I hope for light)

PHI:

  • Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua (The only good language is a dead language)
  • Philadelphia Philologists
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