Archives For November 30, 1999

in sapientia ambulate ad eos qui foris sunt tempus redimentes. sermo vester semper in gratia sale sit conditus ut sciatis quomodo oporteat vos unicuique respondere. (Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.)

Colossians 4:5-6

Historia magistra vitae et testis temporum (History is the teacher and witness of times)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum (Let him who desires peace prepare for war)

Vegetius

Fortis cadere, cedere non potest. (A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield.)

Latin Proverb

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.)

Horace

scitis fratres mei dilecti sit autem omnis homo velox ad audiendum tardus autem ad loquendum et tardus ad iram

James 1:19

Ut varias usus meditando extunderet artis / paulatim. (So that experience, by attentive thought, might gradually beat out the various arts.)

Virgil, Georgics Book I Line 133

Amalgamate

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Word: Amalgamate [uh-mal-guh-mate]

Part of Speech: verb

Definition: To combine into a unified whole, unite, to become combined; to mix an alloy with mercury. 

Origin: Early 17th century from medieval Latin ‘amalgamare’ – formed into a soft mass.

Example Sentence: The man amalgamated his company with another.

In amicitia nihil fictum est, nihil simulatum, et quidquid est, id est verum et voluntarium (In friendship there is nothing fictitious, nothing simulated, and it is in fact true and voluntary)

Marcus Tullius Cicero, de Amicitia

audiens sapiens sapientior erit et intellegens gubernacula possidebit (A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.)

Proverbs 1:5,  Latin Vulgate Bible