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Taking the words out of someone's mouth, speaking exactly what the other colloquist wanted to say. This refers to the relevance of illustrations, for example in preaching. Used in Metaphysics and specifically in Kant's Transcendental Idealism to refer to a subject as it exists in its logically distinct form rather than as it is perceived by the human faculty.

#VOX MEANING LATIN FULL#

The privilege of age sometimes granted a minor under Roman or civil law, entitling the minor to the rights and liabilities of a person of full age, and resembling emancipation of minors in modern law The message supposedly sent by Julius Caesar to the Roman Senate to describe his battle against King Pharnaces II of Pontus near Zela in 47 BC. Motto of the University of Toronto, Canada A very common variant is celerius quam asparagi cocuntur ('faster than asparagus cooked'). Ascribed to Augustus by Suetonius in The Twelve Caesars, Book 2 (Augustus), para. Rendered by Robert Graves in I, Claudius as 'as quick as boiled asparagus'. It is the motto of Hillfield, one of the founding schools of Hillfield Strathallan College. Non-literally, 'where there is a will, there is a way'. g., 'this action turns upon whether the claimant was the deceased's grandson vel non.' From the Vulgate, Ecclesiastes 1:2 12:8.Ī purported prediction stated as if it was made before the event it describes, while in fact being made thereafter.

Or more simply: 'vanity, vanity, everything vanity'. Last words of Vespasian according to Suetonius in his Twelve CaesarsĪttributed by Livy to Brennus, the chief of the Gauls, stated with his demand for more gold from the citizens of the sacked city of Rome in 390 BC. The phrase ' vade retro' ('go back') is also in Terence's Formio, I, 4, 203. Peter, as quoted in the Vulgate, Mark 8:33: vade retro me Satana ('get behind Me, Satan'). From a popular Medieval Roman Catholic exorcism formula, derived from the rebuke of Jesus Christ to St. The full quotation translates as 'Go to the ant, you sluggard consider its ways and be wise!' Ī vade-mecum or vademecum is an item one carries around, especially a handbook.Īn exhortation to Satan to be gone, often a Roman Catholic response to temptation.

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