List of Latin Phrases / B

Babylonis

Babylonis opes: “The riches of Babylon” - Publius Papinius Statius : Silvae 3.2.137

Baccalaureus

Baccalaureus artium: “Bachelor of Fine Arts” - ba sc. Liberalium; University diploma of the lowest degree. The French Baccalauréat (informal short form Bac) today corresponds roughly to the Abitur or Matura and is understood in France as the first academic degree.

Balnea

Balnea, census, amor, lis, alea, crapula, clamor impediunt multum Herbipolense studium.: "Baths, taxes, love, quarrels, dice, intoxication and screaming hinder studying in Würzburg very much." - Leonine hexameter of the scholaster Albert in the 14th century for his time in Würzburg .

Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra; sed vitam faciunt: balnea, vina, Venus.

“The baths, the wines, the love: they destroy our body;
but they make life: the baths, the wines, the love. "

(Inscription CIL 6,3,15258,5-8; elegiac distchon )

Basically in German: "There is nothing like alcohol and nicotine for people. But they feel particularly comfortable with nicotine and alcohol."

Barba

Barba crescit, caput nescit.: "The beard grows, (but) the head doesn't get any wiser."

Barba non facit philosophum.: “The beard doesn't make a philosopher.” - According to Aulus Gellius .

Barba tangenda te virum esse memineris.: "If you touch your beard, you will remember that you are a man." - According to the Sententiae of Caecilius Balbus; The original says: "Lysander interrogatus, cur magnam barbam libenter haberet, respondit:
Ut solum tangendo eam virum me esse meminerim" (When asked why he is so attached to his long beard, Lysander replied: "About me, if I touch him to remind that I am a man. ” ) - The stated proverb would undoubtedly be closer to the original and better Latin if it were“ Barbam tangendo ... ”

Barbara

Barbara, Celarent primae, Darii Ferioque; / Cesare, Camestres, Festino, Baroco secundae; / Tertia grande sonans recitat Darapti, Felapton, / Disamis, Datisi, Bocardo, Ferison; / quartae sunt Bamalip, Calemes, Dimatis, Fesapo, Fresison.: Traditional saying about the coherence of syllogisms

Barbarus

Location of Tomis in today's Romania

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli.: “Here I am the barbarian because nobody understands me.” Because barbarians were those whose language one did not understand.; Ovid, for example, complains ( Epistulae ex Ponto 5,10,37 [letters from the Black Sea] ) from his exile place of Tomis on the Black Sea. He tells of the rough climate, the raw barbarians, the constant danger of war and the loneliness. He protests his innocence, but both emperors do not lift the banishment.

Beata

Beata aeternitas vel aeterna beatitudo: “Blessed Eternity or Eternal Bliss” - Augustine : De civitate Dei 9.13

Beata morte nil beatius.: “No greater happiness than a blissful death.” - Proverb

Beata simplicitas: "Blessed simplicity" - Thomas a Kempis : De imitatione Christi 4.18,5

Beata Virgo Maria: "Blessed Virgin Mary" - name for the Virgin Mary in the Catholic Church.

Beata vita perfecta sapientia efficitur: "A happy life comes through perfect wisdom."

Beatae

Beatae memoriae: "Blessed memory" - Relating to the memory of the deceased according to Hieronymus : Epistulae 24.1

Beate

Beate enim vivendi cupiditate incensi omnes sumus.: “We are all inspired by the desire to live happily.” - Cicero: De finibus bonorum et malorum 5.86

Beate vivere honeste, id est, cum virtute vivere.: “To live happily means to live morally, that is to say virtuously.” - Cicero: De finibus bonorum et malorum 3.29

Beati

Beati illi qui procul negotiis.: "Happy are those who are far from the shops." (See Beatus seine qui procul negotiis )

Beati misericordes, quoniam ipsi misericordiam consequentur.: “Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.” - Vulgate : Gospel according to Matthew 5: 7

Beati monoculi in regione caecorum.: "Blessed are the one-eyed in the land of the blind." - Cf. the proverb "In the land of the blind the one-eyed is king."

Beati mundo corde, quoniam ipsi Deum videbunt.: "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they will see God." - Vulgate: Gospel according to Matthew 5: 8

Beati Pacifici.: "Blessed are the peaceful."

Beati pauperes spiritu: “Blessed are the poor in spirit” - one of the beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount , quoted from the Vulgate , Gospel according to Matthew 5 : 3.

Beati possidentes: "Happy are those who have". - In a dispute over property, the person who has the property has an advantage and does not have to prove his or her right. Rather, it must be the one who claims the matter.; Roman legal principle that is not found in this wording in the Corpus Juris Civilis . In fact, it is mentioned several times in the digests .

Beati, qui nunc fletis, nam ridebitis.: "Happy are you who are crying now, because you will laugh."

Beatius

Beatius est magis dare quam accipere.: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” - Vulgate: Acts 20:35; This view is consistent with the teaching of the Roman Stoics that charity should be repaid with interest; z. B. Seneca (Epistulae morales 81,17): “Errat enim, si quis beneficium accipit libentius quam reddit. ... Ingratus est, qui beneficium reddit sine usura "(" It is wrong to receive a benefit rather than pay it back. ... You are ungrateful if you return a benefit without interest ").; The shortened proverb "Giving is more blessed than receiving" goes back to the quote from the book of Acts.

Beatus

Beatus seine qui procul negotiis: "Happy those who are far from business." Horace , Epodes 2,1. This means the enthusiasm for country life. The full quote is as follows:

Beatus seine, qui procul negotiis,
ut prisca gens mortalium,
paterna rura bobus exercet suis,
solutus omni faenore;
Neque excitatur classico miles truci
neque horret iratum mare
forumque vitat et superba civium
potentiorum limina.

Happy the man who, far from business,
like the human race once,
plows his father's clod with his oxen,
free from debt;
As a soldier he is neither roused by the wild signal
nor frightened by the rumbling sea,
he avoids the forum and the proud
palaces of the mighty.

Bella

Bella, horrida bella.: “Wars, terrible wars!” - Virgil , Aeneid 6,86.

Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube.: "Let others wage wars, you, happy Austria marry." - the motto of the Habsburgs' marriage policy from the 17th century. The complete distich is “Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube. Nam quae Mars aliis, dat tibi diva Venus. " (" Let others wage wars, you, happy Austria, get married! Because what the other Mars , Venus , the goddess, gives you. "); See also Felix Austria .

Bella gerant alii, Protesilaus amet.: “May war be waged by others, Protesilaus may love.” - Ovid , Heroides 13.84.

In the Trojan War , the hero Protesilaos jumped ashore as the first Greek and was also the first to be killed. To comfort his widow Laodameia , the gods allowed the dead man to spend three more happy hours in his wife's bed.

Bella matribus / detestata: “The wars cursed by the mothers” Horace , carmina 1,1,24f.

Bellerophontis

Ancient gem : Bellerophon, riding Pegasus , kills the chimera

Bellerophontis tabellae: Reproduction of the Greek expression " Βελλεροφόντος τὰ γράμματα " ( Bellerophontos ta grammata ); “Letter from Bellerophon” - a letter that instead of a recommendation contains the order to kill the person who delivered the letter.; Plautus alludes to this (Bacchides 810 f.): "Aha, Bellerophontem tuos me fecit filius: / egomet tabellas tetuli, ut vincirer." ( Aha, your son made me a Bellerophon: / I myself brought the letter that I should be tied up. ); Bellerophon was a grandson of Sisyphus. King Proitus' wife accused him of trying to seduce her. The king then sent Bellerophontes to his father-in-law Iobates , with the encrypted message to kill him.; Variant: litterae Bellerophontes

Bellum

Belli domique: “In War and Peace” - Cicero: De re publica 1.38

Bellum intestinum: "Internal war" - civil war according to Cicero : In Catilinam 2,28.; Other names for civil war are bellum civile and bellum domesticum .

Bellum iustum: “ Just War ” - The theory of just war is intended to enable the assessment of whether the use of military force is permitted or even required from a moral point of view. A distinction is made between two categories: the “ius ad bellum” ( right to war - under what circumstances may war be waged?) And the “ius in bello” ( right in war - rules for legitimate warfare).

Bellum offensivum: " War of Aggression " - Francis Bacon: Historia regni Henrici Septimi 3.2

Bellum omnium contra omnes: "War of all against all" - designation of the natural state by Thomas Hobbes . The theorem of the “war of all against all” gave the constitutional law discussion an option to legitimize secular power independently of religious concepts.

Bellum omnium pater.: "War is the father of all (things)." - Sentence of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus , which in the original reads as follows:; " Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι. “ Polemos pantōn men patēr esti.; According to Heraclitus, the principle of the world consists in the fact that there is something that is constant and that is constantly changing by turning from one pole to the other.

Bellum se ipsum alet.: “The war will feed itself.” - Marcus Portius Cato with Livius, Ab urbe condita 34.9.12. Compare also War feeds war .

Bellum tibi ex victoria nascitur.: “A new war will grow out of your victory.” - Curtius Rufus : Historiae Alexandri Magni Macedonis 7/8/21

Bene

Bene decessit.: "He died of natural causes."

Bene eveniat!: “May it end well!” - Cicero , Ad Atticum 7. 2,4

Bene facta in luce se conlocari volunt.: "Well done wants to be in the light."

Bene facta male locata malefacta habentur.: "Badly applied benefits are to be regarded as bad deeds."

Bene ferre magnam / disce fortunam.: "Learn to endure great happiness well." - Quotation from the Carmina of the poet Horace (3,27,74)

Bene meriti: “People who have made a difference” –Cicero, De re publica 2,4.; Applied to a single person, this praise reads bene meritus / merita (man / woman).; People with high earnings: optime meriti / meritae

Bene nati mediocriter edocti.: "Well-born and moderately educated."

Bene valete !: “Farewell!” - Plautus : Miles gloriosus 1340

Bene vixit, qui bene latuit.: "Those who hide well lived well."; The dictum is a somewhat modified quote from Ovid , in which it says in Tristia 3, 4, 25: "bene qui latuit, bene vixit".

Benedicite

Benedicite, omnia opera. ("Praise, all works!"): Beginning of the hymn of the three young men in the fiery furnace (Daniel 3,57): "Benedicite, omnia opera Domini, Domino" ("Praise, all works of the Lord, the Lord!")

Benedictio

Benedictio Dei divites facit.: “God's blessing makes you rich.” - Vulgate : Book of Proverbs 10:22

Benedictio patris firmat domos filiorum.: “The father's blessing builds houses for the children.” - Vulgate: Ekklesiastes 3:11

Benedictus

Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel.

Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini.: “Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord”: Messianic greeting from Psalm 118 , 26, called by the crowd when Jesus entered Jerusalem.; Also part of the Sanctus of the mass: “Praise be to him who comes in the name of the Lord.” As a rule, independent settings.

Benedictus vir, qui confidit in dominoes.: “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord.” - Vulgate: Jeremiah 17: 7

Beneficii

Beneficii accepti esto memor.: “Keep in mind a benefit received!” - proverb

Beneficii accepti numquam oportet oblivisci, dati protinus.: “One should never forget a benefit that one has received, one that has been given, immediately.” - Pseudo-Seneca: Liber de moribus 67

Beneficium

Beneficia donari aut mali aut stulti putant.: “Only bad guys or fools believe that charities are free.” - Publilius Syrus : Sententiae 80

Beneficium fortunae: “Favor of Fate” - Seneca : Epistulae morales 63.7

Beneficium iuris nemini est denegandum.: “The protection of the law must not be denied to anyone.” - Legal rule

Beneficium legis frustra implorat, qui commit in legem.: "Anyone who violates the law invokes the protection of the law in vain." - Legal rule

Benevole

Benevole lector: "Inclined reader" - also in the form of Lector benevole

Benevolentia

Benevolentia importuna non differt from odio.: “Inappropriate benevolence is no different from hatred.” - proverb

Benevolentia nihil aliud est quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta.: “Benevolence is nothing else than desire that arises from compassion.” - Baruch de Spinoza : Ethica 3.27

Benigna

Benigna interpretatio: "Favorable interpretation" - Corpus Iuris Civilis, Digesta 23.4,9 (Pomponius)

Bernardus

Bernardus valles amat.: "Bernhard loves the valleys." - This memorable verse about four important Catholic orders reads completely like this:; "Bernhardus valles, montes Benedictus amabat, / oppida Franciscus, magnas Ignatius urbes."; “Bernhard loved the valleys, Benedict the mountains; Francis the towns, Ignatius the big cities. "; Saint Bernard of Clairvaux had his Cistercian monasteries built mainly in valleys. Benedict founded his monasteries in mountain regions. In the succession of Francis of Assisi , the Franciscan monasteries are in smaller and medium-sized towns, while the Jesuits of Ignatius of Loyola prefer larger cities.

Berolinum

Berolinum - orbi lumen: “Berlin, Licht des Erdkreises” - J. Kayser, 1698. Anagram of the Westphalian pastor Johann Kayser in 1698 on a business trip to Berlin , in memory of the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm .

Bestia

Bestia bestiam novit.: "One animal knows the (other) animal."

Bestia crudelis est cor pravae mulieris.: "A cruel beast is the heart of a false woman." - proverb

Bestiary

Bestiarum more: "In the manner of animals" - like the dear cattle

Bibe

Bibe, si bibis!: “Drink when you drink!” - “Drink properly when you drink!” Plautus : Stichus 710

Beaver

Bibere et manducare nulli concessum est ad gulam explendam, sed ad famem sitimque restringendam.: “No one is allowed to drink or eat to fill his throat, but to satisfy hunger and thirst.” - Beda Venerabilis : Proverbiorum liber

Bibere humanum est, ergo bibamus.: “Drinking is human, so let's drink.” - Inscription in the Nuremberg Ratskeller

Bibamus

Bibamus et gaudeamus.: "Let's drink and be happy!" - Quote from a student song:

Bibamus et gaudeamus, dum iuvenes sumus,
nam tarda senectus venit
et post eam mors; post mortem nihil!

Let's drink and be happy while we're still young,
because old age comes paralyzing
and then death; after death nothing.

Bibant

Bibant in poenitentiam.: “May they drink it as a penance.” - Verdict from Rome when a Bavarian bishop asked there to forbid the monks from drinking beer during Lent . Rome asked for a sample and found the beer inedible.

Bibite

Bibite, fratres, bibite, ne diablus vos otiosos inveniat.: "Drink, brothers, drink so that the devil won't find you inactive."

Biblia

Biblia pauperum , around 1455

Biblia Hebraica: "Hebrew Bible"

Biblia pauperum: " Poor's Bible ": Simplified and richly illustrated versions of the Bible that were used by beggar monks for their sermons to the common people.

Bibo

Bibo ergo sum.: “I drink, therefore I am.” - Humorous reference to Cogito ergo sum .

Bipes

Bipes asellus: "Two-legged donkey" - Juvenal : Saturae 9.92

To

Bis ac ter, quod pulchrum est.: "What is good (should be repeated) twice and three times." - Erasmus: Adagia 149 (after Plato )

Until ad eundem lapidem offendere

Until then, qui cito dat.: “You give twice if you give quickly.” - Quotation from the Varronic sentences of the poet Publilius Syrus

Until de eadem re ne sit actio.: “There is no hearing twice about the same matter.” - Legal principle that prohibits a second (court) hearing of the same matter

Until idem non est idem.: "The same thing twice is not the same."

Until the (bid): "Twice a day" - medical abbreviation: bid

Until peccare in bello non licet.: "Making mistakes twice in a war is not allowed."

Until pueri senes.: "Old people are double children." - Erasmus of Rotterdam: Adagia 436; "Until puer ipse senex, pueris colludere gestit."; "The old man becomes a child a second time, he wants to play with the children."

Until repetita (non) placent.: “You (don't) like something repeated twice . ” - Perhaps according to Horace : De arte poetica ( Epistula ad Pisones ) 365 - there it says haec placuit semel, haec deciens repetita placebit . ("This one was liked once, this one was liked repeatedly ten times.")

Until vivit, qui bene vivit.: "Live twice if you live well."

Bona

Bona: "(Prognosis) good" - medical term; see also prognosis : dubia, incerta, mala, infausta

Bona causa nullum iudicem verebitur.: “A good cause fears no judge.” - Publilius Syrus: Sententiae 702

Bona fide: “In good faith.”: Term from jurisprudence. This is a protection of trust in a legal certificate.

Bona malis paria non sunt, etiam pari numero.: “The good is not the same as the bad, even if it is numerically the same.” - Pliny the Elder Ä. : Naturalis historia 7. 132

Bona nox.: “Good night!”: This is the beginning of the four-part canon Bona nox! bist arechta Ox by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from 1788:

Bona nox!
You're a right ox,
Bona notte,
love Lotte,
Bonne nuit,
ugh, ugh, ...

Bona officia: “ Good offices ” - an offer by one nation to mediate in a dispute of other nations

Bona terra, mala gens.: “Good country, bad people.” - William Shakespeare : King Henry VI., II.4,7

Bona vacantia: "Abandoned goods"

Bonuses

Boni pastoris est special pecus, non degl Brille.: "A good shepherd shears his cattle, he does not pull their hide." - Statement of the Roman Emperor Tiberius about his governors , according to Suetonius

Bonum

Bonum ad virum cito moritur iracundia.: “Anger dies quickly with a good man.” - Quote from the works of the poet Publilius Syrus

Bonum commune communitatis: "Common good" - literarily also for "common good"

Bonum commune hominis: "Common property"

"Bonum et aequum", "bono et aequo"

Bonum magis carendo quam fruendo cernitur.: "The good is perceived more strongly when you do without it than when you enjoy it."

bonus

Coat of arms of the Spanish cardinal Enrique Almaraz y Santos (1847–1922)

Bonus pastor animam suam dat pro ovibus suis.: “The good shepherd gives his life for his sheep.” - Motto of the good shepherd , honorary title for Jesus Christ

Bonus vir semper tiro.: “A good person always remains an apprentice.” - Martial , Epigrams 12,51,2.; The preceding sentence reads: “You are surprised that our Fabullinus is so often deceived, Aulus?” So the statement of this two-liner is that good-natured people often have to pay hardship. Goethe took this saying into his maxims and reflections .

Bonna

Bonna solum felix: "Happy soil Bonn" - saying from the 16th century about the city of Bonn

Boreas

Boreas domus, mare amicus.: “The north is our home, the sea is our friend.” - the motto of the Scottish Orkney Islands

Breve

Breve et irreparabile tempus omnibus est vita.: "A short and irretrievable time is life for all."

Brevi

Brevi manu (B. m.): "Short hand": Without any fuss. In the legal language, Brevi manu traditio means “handing over quickly”, the handing over of an item e.g. B. by a messenger who no longer requires a formal handover. Corpus Iuris Civilis, Digesta 23, 3,43,1 (Ulpian)

Breviary

View into a breviary from the Sacra di San Michele abbey

Roman Breviary: “Römisches Brevier” - Church Latin term for the breviary

Brevis

Brevis cantio cito decantatur.: "A short song is sung quickly." - proverb

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.: “I try to be short and get dark.” - Describes the fact that shortening a text can make the content less clear.

Brevis nobis a natura vita data est.: "We have been given a short life by nature." - Reformulation from Cicero , Orationes Philippicae 14.32, where it says:; "Brevis a natura vita vobis data est, at memoria bene redditae vitae sempiterna" ("A short life is given to you by nature, but the memory of having given it back forever").
Brevis oratio penetrat caelos.: "A short prayer penetrates heaven."; In the novel “ Gargantua and Pantagruel ” by Rabelais (1.41), this proverb has a second half and goes completely: “Brevis oratio penetrat coelos et longa potatio evacuat scyphos” (“... and long drinking empties the cups”).

Bruta

Bruta licet soleant animalia iure timeri, omnibus est illis plus metuendus homo.: “Even if one is usually right to fear the wild animals, one must fear humans more than all of them.” - The proverbial distich, which is the final moral of the 17th fable of Flavius Avianus (“Venator et Tigris”).

Bulla

Bulla est vita hominum.: “Human life is a soap bubble.” - Inscription on sundials

Bursa

Bursa carens aere nequit inter vina sedere.: “If the bag lacks money, you cannot sit with wine.” (Literally: “A bag without money cannot sit with wine.”) - a well-known saying from the Middle Ages

Individual evidence

↑ Büchmann, 26th ed. 1920, p. 350 , Detlef Liebs: Latin legal rules and legal proverbs , 6th ed. 1998, p. 39
↑ Eg in Digesten 50,17,154 (Ulpian), where sentence 1 reads: “Cum par delictum est duorum, semper oneratur petitor et melior habetur possessoris causa.” (“If two parties have the same offense, the burden of proof is on the claimant and the owner is in a better position. ”)
↑ Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta , ed. August Nauck , Ed. 2, Leipzig Teubner 1889, page 458 No. 326 line 8 , and James Turney Allen & Gabriel Italie: A Concordance to Euripides , page 311
↑ NRSV
^ Ausonius : Epistulae , 7
↑ http://gfa.gbv.de/dr,gfa,004,2001,a,09.pdf
^ Fifth volume, third issue (there number 3)

[1] Büchmann, 26th ed. 1920, p. 350 , Detlef Liebs: Latin legal rules and legal proverbs , 6th ed. 1998, p. 39

[2] Eg in Digesten 50,17,154 (Ulpian), where sentence 1 reads: “Cum par delictum est duorum, semper oneratur petitor et melior habetur possessoris causa.” (“If two parties have the same offense, the burden of proof is on the claimant and the owner is in a better position. ”)

[3] Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta , ed. August Nauck , Ed. 2, Leipzig Teubner 1889, page 458 No. 326 line 8 , and James Turney Allen & Gabriel Italie: A Concordance to Euripides , page 311

[4] NRSV

[5] Ausonius : Epistulae , 7

[6] ttp://gfa.gbv.de/dr,gfa,004,2001,a,09.pdf

[7] Fifth volume, third issue (there number 3)