RomanArmyTalk

Hello
I havn't read all but i just love the plain and simple............Salve
Kevin

Nulla consilia meliora sunt nisi illa quae ignoraverit adversarius antequam facias

The plans are best of which the enemy are ignorant until the moment of execution

and

Amplius prodest locus saepe quam virtus.

Ground often of more importance than valour.

Vegetius 3:26:5 and 11 (John Clark's translation)

Two from renaissance Italy:

Aut Caesar Aut Nihil ('Either Caesar or Nothing' - supposedly the motto of the overly-ambitious Cesare Borgia!)

Nec Spe Nec Metu ('Without Hope, Without Fear' - motto of the painter Caravaggio)

And two suitably aggressive ones used by Scots regiments in the British army:

En Ferus Hostis ('Behold a Fierce Enemy')

Nemo me Impune Lacessit ('No one insults me with impunity')

Non illegitimi carborundum :-P

Dum spiro spero.
While I breathe, I hope.

Quote:Ecce. In pictura est puella nomine Cornelia. This was the first Latin I ever saw. "Ecce Romani" Book I, Scottish classics Group, 1st edition 1971.

Ditto! High drama when Davus escaped and was recaptured. Then the raeda got stuck in a fossa. Fantastic stuff. And pictures by Peter Dennis, believe it or not!

This is what the Google Translater gave me for my favorite saying, Life is too short for bull shit..... Vita est brevis taurus stercus

Or one I made up recently, Knowledge without wisdom is a child with a gun...Scientia sine sapientia puer fistulae

When I was in the military many years ago we made one up that goes. "Nil Bastum Carborundum" translated Don't let the B#.>*~ds grind you down.

non posuit Descartes ante equum

"Cui Bono?"

which, if I recall aright, is roughly, "Who benefits?" Call me a cynic, but that one has been so very useful in my life. When something happens and you're not sure why, look to see who gained from it...