List of Latin Phrases / E

E.

E contrario: “From the opposite” - for example in the presentation of evidence. With “argumentum e contrario” the conclusion of the reverse is called in the legal methodology .

E pluribus unum on the seal of the United States

E duobus malis minimum eligendum est.: "Of two evils, the smallest is to be selected."

E flamma petere te cibum posse arbitror.: "I believe that you can get food out of the flame." - Iambic Senar from Terenz, Eunuchus 491. In the sense of: "You would do anything for a warm meal."

E pluribus unum: “Out of several one” - Original US motto on the state seal. What is meant by this is that several individual states become one state.

E verbo: "On the word" - literally, word for word

Ea

Ea tela texitur.: “This fabric is drawn out / woven.” - Cicero de oratore 3,226.

Used today as a reference to the subject in question.

Eadem

Eadem mensura metiri: "Measure with the same measure"

Ecce

Antonello da Messina : Ecce homo, around 1473

Ecce agnus dei qui tollit peccata mundi.: See, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! - In the Gospel of John ( Vulgate translation) John the Baptist speaks these words when he sees Jesus ( John 1.29 EU ). In the Roman Catholic liturgy , the sentence is spoken before receiving communion , the faithful answer with the prayer Lord I am not worthy .

Ecce ego mitto vos sicut oves in medio luporum.: See, I am sending you like sheep among wolves. - Jesus sends out the apostles according to the Gospel according to Matthew ( Mt 10.16 EU ).

Ecce homo: “See, man!” - In John's Gospel (Vulgate translation), Pilate speaks these words when he leads Jesus with the crown of thorns in front of the crowd ( John 19.5 EU ).

Ecce mater tua.: “Look, this is your mother!” - These are the words the dying Jesus said on the cross to his disciple John, who was supposed to take care of his mother Mary ( Jn 19:27 EU ).

Ecclesia

Ecclesia militans: "The fighting church" - The people of God on earth.

Ecclesia non sitit sanguinem.: “The Church does not thirst for blood.” - The Church gave the so-called heretics to secular jurisdiction for the execution of punishment.; Also: "The Church does not insist on the death penalty and its execution."

Ecclesia triumphans: “The Triumphant Church” - Communion of the Blessed in Heaven

Ede

Ede nasturtium: watercress

Ede nasturtium.: “Eat watercress!” - Erasmus von Rotterdam , Adagia 1,8,54 ( watercress ( Nasturtium officinale )) was an important supplier of vitamin C due to the fact that it could already be harvested in winter. She was said to increase the ability to think.

Edere

Edere oportet, ut vivas, non vivere, ut edas.: “You have to eat to live, not live to eat.” - A more understandable variant of: Auctor ad Herennium 4.39, where it says: “Esse oportet ...”. Esse is an ambiguous alternative to the infinitive edere (essen) ( ēsse: "to eat"; ĕsse: "to be").; Quintilian (institutio oratoria 9,3,85) formulates the same as an example for the style figure Antimetabole : "Non ut edam, vivo, sed ut vivam, edo."; Compare also “ Edimus, ut vivamus, non vivimus, ut edamus. "

Edimus

Edimus, ut vivamus, non vivimus, ut edamus.: “We eat to live. We don't live to eat. ”- Variant:“ Edendum tibi est ut vivas, et non vivendum ut edas. "(" You have to eat in order to live, you do not live to eat. "); Compare also “ Edere oportet, ut vivas, non vivere, ut edas. "

Editio

Editio princeps: “First edition” - The edition science understands editio princeps to mean the first printed edition of a classic.

ego

Ego Dominus Deus tuus, qui eduxi te de terra Aegypti, de domo servitutis.: "I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of the Egyptians, out of the slave house." - Introduction to the Ten Commandments ( 2 Mos 20,2 VUL )

Ego flos campi, et lilium convallium.: "I am a flower of the field and a lily of the valley." - Song of 2.1 after the Vulgate ( Cant 2.1 VUL ), frequent initial set of sacred motets, the concept of flos campi see Rose of Sharon

Ego sum, qui sum.: “I am who I am” - Exodus. Exodus. 3.14 according to the Vulgate ( 2 Mos 3.14 VUL )

Ego te absolvo.: "I absolve you (of your sins)." - Absolution at confession

Eheu

Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, / labuntur anni.: "Oh dear, how fleeting, Postumus, Postumus, / the years go by." - Horace , Oden 2,14,1f., Translation in meter of the original

Ens

Ens: "The being" - present participle of esse (= to be). Concept of philosophy, especially scholasticism

Ens a se: “That which is by itself” - That which is not caused by any other being

Ens ab alio: “That of another being” - that of another being caused

Ens individual: "Individual" - individual

Ens perfectissimum: “The most perfect thing” - on the designation of God in René Descartes

Ens rationis: “The Thought Thing” - The Thought Thing

Ens real: “The real thing” - concept from philosophy: the real, real being independent of consciousness

Ens realissimum: "The most real being" - it means God.

Ens sociale: "Community system" - Corresponds to the Greek zoon politikon .

Ense

Seal of the US state of Massachusetts with the motto “ Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem. "

Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.: "With the sword he seeks the quiet rest under the protection of freedom." - Motto of the US state of Massachusetts - Complete wording of this verse by Algernon Sidney (1622–1683):

"Manus haec inimica tyrannis / ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem." "This hand, which is hostile to the tyrants / seeks peaceful rest in freedom with the sword."

Eo

Eo ipso: “Out of yourself” - precisely because of that

Eodem

Eodem the: "On the same day"

Eodem mense: "In the same month"

Eodem anno: "In the same year"

Epicuri

Epicuri de grege porcum: “A pig from the herd of Epicurus” - self-deprecating quote from the letters (1, 4, 16) of the poet Horace . The Greek philosopher Epicurus was regarded as a man of pleasure and was often reviled. With the advent of Christianity, Epicureanism fell increasingly discredited.

Epistula

Epistula non erubescit.: "A letter doesn't blush." - Cicero in a letter

Equi

Equi donati dentes non inspiciuntur.

Equitare

Equitare, arcum tendere, veritatem dicere.: “Horseback riding, archery, telling the truth” - the motto of Karen Blixen's famous book Out of Africa

Equum

Equum has Seianum.: “He has the horse of Seius.” - He is doomed. The Roman Gnaeus Seius had an excellent horse, which is said to have descended from the horses of Diomedes , who fought against Troy. However, the curse on the horse was that whoever owned it was doomed to ruin with all of his family and possessions. Gellius tells the story in the Noctes Atticae (3,9,2-6) and quotes the proverb as follows: “ Ille homo habet equum Seianum. "

He at

Eram quod it; eris quod sum.: “I was what you are; you will be what I am. ”- Frequent epitaphs in Renaissance and Baroque periods; Attributed to Horace , but not documented there.

Ergo

Ergo bibamus monument in Jena

Ergo bibamus .: “So let's drink!” - the title of a famous student song that was composed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1810 and set to music by Traugott Maximilian Eberwein in 1813 . A memorial was named after the Goethe text and was erected in Jena in 1986 on the site of the university's former brewery. The text of the first stanza is as follows:

Here we are gathered for praiseworthy
    tunes , Drum Brother Ergo Bibamus!
The glasses they
    ring , conversations they rest, heed Ergo Bibamus!
That means an old and a good word,
It goes with the first one and so goes on,
And an echo from the festive place
    resounds , A wonderful Ergo Bibamus.

Ergo vivamus, dum licet esse bene.: “So let's live as long as we are okay!” - A verse ( pentameter ) from the novel Satyricon (34.10) by Titus Petronius , where the nouveau riche Trimalchio quotes him as his maxim of life.

Eripere

Eripe mihi hunc dolorem, aut minue saltem.: “Take this pain away from me or at least reduce it!” - Quote from letters to Atticus IX, 6 by Cicero , op. 705 (49 B.C.E.)

Eripuit

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis: Franklin's experiment with the dragon

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis.: "He snatched lightning from heaven and the scepter from tyrants." - A saying coined on Benjamin Franklin , who invented the lightning rod and was instrumental in American independence. During a thunderstorm, Franklin would fly a kite and use sparks to prove the electricity in lightning. Franklin also sat on the committee that drafted the US Declaration of Independence . The English king is meant by the tyrant.; Another version of the saying goes:; “ Eripuit coelo fulmen, mox sceptra tyrannis. “-“ He tore the lightning from heaven, soon the sceptres from the tyrants. "

Eritis

Eritis sicut dii scientes bonum et malum.: “You will be like the gods, knowing what is good and what is bad.” - Quote from the creation story of the Vulgate

Errantis

Errantis non est voluntas.: “There is no will of a person who is mistaken.” - Legal principle according to which a contract is invalid if one of the contracting parties makes an error essentialis .; Another wording of this maxim passed down in Roman law:
" Errantis voluntas nulla est. “(Codex Iustiniani 1,18,8 Diocletian). No longer valid as a legal maxim today.

Errare

Errare humanum est as an inscription; the attribution to "Aennaeus Seneca" (probably Seneca the Elder ) seen here is uncertain.

Errare humanum est, in errore perseverare stultum.: “ To err is human, to persist in error is stupid.” - This frequently occurring thought can be found in Hieronymus (Letter 57, 12: “… quia et errasse humanum est”), also with Cicero ( Philippine speeches 12, 5): “Cuiusvis hominis est errare ”-“ Everyone can be wrong ”.

Errare (Mehercule) malo cum Platone […] quam cum istis vera sentire.: “I want - by Hercules! - I'd rather be wrong with Plato [...] than recognize the truth with them. ”- A statement by Marcus Tullius Cicero directed against the Pythagoreans (Tusculanae disputationes 1,39).

Errata

Errata corrigere, superflua abscidere, recta cohartare: Reading : Errata corrigere, superflua absci n dere, recta cohartare.; “To correct mistakes, to remove superfluous things, to confirm what is correct.” - This tricolon can be found in the Admonitio generalis of Charlemagne .

Erro

Erro, dum vivo.: "I'm wrong as long as I live."

Error

Error calculi: "Calculation error"

Error in calculo: "Error in the calculation" - quote from Theodor Fontane's novel Irrungen, Wirrungen (Chapter 8):; " Error. Error in calculo. You forget about adoption. All these circus people are secret Gichtelians and inherit their property, reputation and name according to plan and agreement. They seem the same and yet have become different. Always fresh blood. Take off ... "

Error in person: "Error in the person" - more precisely " error in persona vel in obiecto ". In criminal law, describes cases in which the perpetrator aims at and hits an object, but there is a mix-up of identity.

Error iuris nocet.: "A legal error is harmful."

Error probabilis: "Probable Error" - An excusable error

Eat

Seal of the US state North Carolina : Esse quam videri

Esse est percipi.: “To be is to be perceived.” - Main formula of the philosophy of George Berkeley : The existence of things is identified with their perception.

Esse oportet, ut vivas, from vivere, ut edas.: Quotation from the Auctor ad Herennium 4.39. See Edere oportet… .

Eat quam videri: "Better to be than appearances!" Motto of the US state of North Carolina - It is a linguistically incorrect shortening of a sentence by Cicero:; " Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt. “(De amicitia 98). “ Because not so many want to possess the excellence itself as it would appear to be. "

Est

Est actio quasi corporis quaedam eloquentia.: "The lecture (speech) is, so to speak, the eloquence of the (whole) body." ("... because it - namely the lecture - consists of voice and gestures.") Cicero , orator 55

Trinity - external text : The Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is not the Father;
inner text : The Father is God; the son is God; the Holy Spirit is God

Est deus.

Est medicina triplex: servare, cavere, mederi.: "Medicine is threefold: preserve, prevent and heal." - Single verse from the hexameter poem Griphus ternarii numeri (safety net of the three number) by Decimus Magnus Ausonius , where a wealth of terms is enumerated that are based on the three number or that is associated with it.

Est mode in rebus.: “There is a measure in things.” - The sentence is continued with “… sunt certi denique fines, / quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.” - “… in short, there are clear limits / outside of which the right thing does not exist . "( Horace , Satires 1,1,106 f)

Est nobis voluisse satis.: "Enough for us to have wanted." - Tibullus , 4,1,7

Est quaedam flere voluptas.: “There is a certain pleasure in crying.” Or “Crying also offers a certain pleasure.” - Ovid , Tristien , IV, 3, 37; Compare also Pliny the Younger , Epistulae 8, 16, 5: “ Est… quaedam etiam dolendi voluptas, praesertim si in amici sinu defleas, apud quem lacrimis tuis vel laus sit parata vel venia. "-" There is ... also a certain pleasure in pain, especially when you can cry yourself at the chest of a friend who accepts your tears with appreciation or with forbearance. "

Esto

Esto mihi robustum habitaculum, ut ingrediar iugiter.

Esto perpetua.: "It should last forever." - Statement by the historian Fra Paolo Sarpi about his native city Venice and today the motto of the US state Idaho

Esto quod esse videris.: "You should be what you seem to be."

Esuriens

Esuriens stomachus fertur coquus optimus esse.: "A hungry stomach is, as they say, the best cook."; Proverb from the Middle Ages in the form of a hexameter : our “hunger is the best cook” in verse.

Et

Et ab hoc et ab hac et ab illa: “From this and from this and from that” - the end of a mocking verse on talkative women.; Complete text under Quando conveniunt ...

Et alii (et al.): “And others” - Used to abbreviate a list of names ( alii is masculine and is used in a gender-neutral sense; the feminine et aliae can be used when the “others” are all women).; The abbreviation is rarely interpreted as et alteri .

Et cetera (etc. or & c.): "And others" - nowadays also "and others", "and so on", "and other things."

Et ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.: Usually shortened to Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam; "And besides, I am in favor of Carthage must be destroyed." Abbreviated quote, which reads in full: "This is what I request and also that Carthage should be destroyed."; Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder saw the Roman Empire of Carthage threatened in his later years and therefore ended his lectures before the Roman Senate with this very proposal.

Et in Arcadia ego: Nicolas Poussin, The Shepherds of Arcadia II.

Et in Arcadia ego.: “I too am / was in Arcadia .” - Appears in this form first on a painting by the baroque painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri and is to be understood there as an utterance and warning of death (“I also exist in Arcadia.”). Better known and at the same time more mysterious are two paintings by the contemporary Nicolas Poussin , in which the phrase is written on a sarcophagus , so that it can be used as an alternative, apart from a warning against mortality ("I [death] am in this idyll too.") of the deceased ("I too [the dead] am now in paradise" or "I [the dead] too once lived in this idyll."), see in detail in Et in Arcadia ego . Compare also Memento mori .

Et dimitte nobis debita nostra.: “And forgive us our debts” - request from the Lord's Prayer , which is supplemented by the important addition “sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris” - “as we also forgive our debtors”.

Et ne nos inducas in tentationem.: “And do not lead us into temptation.” - Request from the Lord's Prayer , which is supplemented by “sed libera nos a malo” (“but deliver us from evil”).

Et passim: "And often" - compare passim .

Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.: “And lose the reason to live because of life.” - Juvenal , Satiren 8/84

Et tu, brute?: “You too, Brutus?” - Quote from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar . Shakespeare leaves here Caesar say in Latin, what this by Suetonius to have exclaimed similarly in Greek ( ; Καὶ σὺ τέκνον Latin Tu quoque fili? , You too, my son? ' When he defends his friend) Marcus Junius Brutus - the one According to malicious rumors, some actually thought he was his son - among his murderers.

Etiam

Etiam si omnes, ego non .: “Even if everyone participates: I don't.” - The sentence goes back to the Gospel of Matthew . There it says in the Latin version ( Vulgate ): Et si omnes scandalizati fuerint in te ego numquam scandalizabor (26.33 VUL ), what in the standard translation with And if everyone offends you - I never! (26.33 EU ) is reproduced.

Eventus

Eventus stultorum magister est: "The result (or: the success) is the master of the stupid."; After Livy

Ex

Ex: "Out of ... out" - former; Drink on ex: Drink up in one go

Ex abundantia enim cordis os loquitur.: "For the mouth speaks from the abundance of the heart." - Gospel according to Matthew (12:34) and Gospel according to Luke (6:45)

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi: “You always hear something new from Africa” - Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 8:42. There it says in full: “Unde etiam vulgare Graeciae dictum semper aliquid novi Africam adferre.” (“Hence the general saying in Greece: Africa always reports something new”) .

“Pliny the Elder said that 'out of Africa there is always something new.' Ex Africa semper aliquid novi. These days it seems that the opposite is true: Out of Africa there is always something depressingly familiar ... 'Africa's weak states need long-term assistance ...' ”

Ex animo: "From the heart" - d. H. "Sincere."

Ex ante: “From before” - “In advance”, “Before the event” - i.e. based on assumptions. Also terminus technicus in econometrics as a counterpart to ex post : data ex ante: data of the future that has to be forecast with the help of known data from the past, the ex-post data.

Ex cathedra: Cathedra of the Pope as Bishop of Rome

Ex cathedra: “From the See (of Peter )” - expression for utterances of the Pope based on his assumed infallibility in questions of faith; applied to others who speak with the highest authority or presumption.

Ex deodorant: "From God."

Ex facto ius oritur.: "Law arises from action." - Roman legal principle

Ex falso quodlibet: “Anything follows from wrong” - Abbreviated to “efq”, more clearly ex contradictione sequitur quodlibet ( “Anything follows from a contradiction”), describes a law that is valid in many logical systems.

Ex flammis orior: Phoenix in the flames

Ex flammis orior.: "I arise from flames." - The phoenix is a mythical bird that burns to rise again from its ashes. This notion can still be found today in the phrase "like a phoenix from the ashes".

Ex gratia: “By grace” - Refers to an act that is committed out of kindness, not out of compulsion ( goodwill ).

Ex hypothesi: "From the hypothesis" - d. H. hypothetical

Ex iniuria ius non oritur.: “No right arises from injustice.” - Roman legal principle

bookplate

Bookplate: "From the books (from ...)" - bookplates are used to identify books. Forerunners of the printed bookplate were handwritten ownership notices, which were already common in the early medieval scriptorias of the monasteries.

Ex malis eligere minima: "Choose the smallest of the evils"

Ex navicula navis: “From a boat to a ship” - the emblem of the city of Łódź

Ex nexu

Ex nihilo: “From nothing” - creation ex nihilo in contrast to creation from an already existing material

Ex nihilo nihil fit.: “Nothing arises from nothing.” - Philosophical principle; first with Melissos ; according to Aristotle (Physics I 4) has become common.

Ex nunc: "From now on" - legal term

Ex officio: "From office" - d. H. ex officio (i.e. without application); or by virtue of office , if someone is also the holder of another office through his office; the Vice President of the USA is ex officio President of the Senate.

Ex oriente lux: "The light (comes) from the east." - Originally this sentence only referred to the sunrise, but was then transferred to Christianity, which, seen from Europe, came from the east.

Ex ovo: "From the egg" - d. H. from the beginning; See from ovo .

Ex parte: "From a party" - a legal term

Ex post: “In retrospect” - prophecy ex post: a prophecy based on the pattern I've always said. Terminus technicus of econometrics as a counterpart to ex ante . Ex-post forecast: A forecast model is tested by creating a "forecast" for a past period in order to check how exactly the model would have developed.

Ex post facto: “From something made afterwards” - from a retrospective law

Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.: “Mercury is not (carved) out of any wood.” - Apuleius, Apologia 476

Ex silentio: “From the silence” - discover something from the silence of the sources

Ex tempore: "From the moment" - d. H. off the cuff; Hence, extemporal work is derived which is not popular at Bavarian secondary schools.

Ex tunc: "From then on" - retrospectively

Ex ungue leonem: "You can recognize the lion by the claw" - but also "ex leone unguem"

Ex unitate vires.: "Unity makes you strong." - Literally: "From unity strength"

Ex vi termini: "From the meaning of the term" - d. H. by definition

Mosaic in Ostia Antica : " Felicissimus ex voto " - Very happy because of a vow

Ex voto: “On the basis of a vow” - A votive offering is an item that the speaker offers on the basis of a vow in a holy place as a token of thanks for being saved from an emergency.

Excelsior

Excelsior: “Higher”: “ always up! “ New York State's motto . A reproduction of the seal was the inspiration for the title of Longfellow's poem Excelsior (" A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! ").; Excelsior is also the name of the third largest diamond and the name of a hotel chain.

Excusatio

Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta: "If you apologize without being asked, you accuse yourself"

Exegi

Exegi monumentum aere perennius.: "I have built a monument that is more durable than ore."

Horace : Oden III, 30, 1 (Carmina)

Exempla / Exempli / Exemplis / Exemplum

Exempla docent.: "Teaching examples."

Exempla trahunt.: “Draw examples.” - Examples stimulate.

Exempli gratia (e. G.): "For the sake of an example", "for example"

Exemplis discimus.: "We learn through examples."

Exemplum facere: “Setting an example” - punishing someone as a deterrent. Also "Exemplum statuere"

Exercitatio

Exercitatio artem ready.: "Practice leads to artistry." - Generalization of a quote from " Germania " by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus ; there it says: "Exercitatio artem paravit" (... led).

Exercitatio potest omnia.: "Practice can do anything."

Exercitia

Exercitia spiritualia: "Spiritual exercises" - derived from these exercises , times in which individuals or groups devote themselves intensively to prayer and reflection more than is usual for themselves.

Exeunt

Exeunt.: “You're going out.” - Stage direction in the theater

Exeunt omnes.: “Everyone is leaving.” - Stage direction in the theater

Exit

Exit.: "He / She goes off" - stage direction in the theater

Death

Death: "Exit" - medical term for death

Exitus acta probat.: “The outcome confirms the deeds.” - The end justifies the previous deeds. Ovid , Heroides (II, 85)

Exitus in dubio est.: "The outcome is doubtful."

Exitus in tabula: "Death on the table" - Means death on the operating table during a medical operation (variant of mors in tabula ).

Expedition

Expeditio Germanica: "Germanic Campaign" - term for the two Marcomann wars ( Expeditio Germanica prima et secunda ) under the rule of Emperor Mark Aurel from 166 to 180 against the Marcomanns , Quaden , Jazygen and Vandals

Expeditio Iudaica: "Jewish Campaign"

Expeditio sacra: "Holy Campaign" - Another term for crusade is cruciata . The First Crusade is called Prima Cruciata or Prima expeditio sacra , the Second Crusade Secunda Cruciata or Secunda expeditio sacra .

Experimentum

Experimentum crucis: "Ultimate Experiment" - The ultimate test of a scientific theory

Experto

Expert credite.: "Believe him who has experienced it." - Quote from the Aeneid of the Roman poet Virgil :; “ Experto credite quantus // in clipeum adsurgat, quo turbine torqueat hastam. "; The phrase can also be found in Ovid's Ars amandi and changed to “ crede experto ”.; Used today in the sense of “ Believe him who understands something about it. "

Expressis

Expressis verbis: “With expressed words”, ie “expressly”.

extra

Extra ecclesiam nulla salus .: "Outside the Church (there is) no salvation." - The usually quoted modification of a sentence by Cyprian of Carthage , which in the original reads:; "Extra ecclesiam salus non est." - "Outside the church there is no salvation."

Extra Gottingam non est vita; Si est vita, non est ita.: “Outside of Göttingen there is no life - and if it is, there is no such thing.” - A saying attributed to August Ludwig von Schlözer about life in Göttingen, occasionally also in the variations “Extra Hungariam” - “Outside Hungary…” or “Extra Bavariam ”-“ Outside Bavaria ... ”.

Extra iocum.: "Joking aside!"

Extra muros: “Outside the Walls” - In the sense of: discussion outside, not intended for the ears of those present

Extra, omnes!: “All out” - the master of ceremonies saying at the beginning of a conclave who asks everyone not involved in the election to leave the Sistine Chapel .

Extra territorium ius dicenti impune non paretur.: "Anyone who speaks the law outside of his or her territory may be disregarded with impunity." - Legal principle, according to which a violation of the jurisdiction will result in the judgment being ineffective

Extremes

Extrema unctio: Last Unction , Netherlands, around 1600

Extrema unctio

Extremum

Extremum occupet scabies.: “The last one should be attacked by scabies!” - Change of a half-verse by Horace from the Ars poetica (417), where it says: “occupet extremum scabies”.

Extremum semper diem adesse putes.: "You should always assume that the last day has come!"

Individual evidence

↑ Detlef Liebs et al., Latin legal rules and legal proverbs . Munich (Beck) 1982

^ Letter to Lucius Lucceius: Epistulae ad familiares ( letters to friends and confidants ) 5,12,1

↑ See the evidence in Meinolf Schumacher : "... is human." Medieval variations of an ancient sentence . In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 119 (1990), pp. 163–170, online

↑ Capitularia regum Francorum. Denuo edidit Alfredus Boretius. Tomus Primus. Hahn, Hanover 1883 (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Legum Sectio II), p. 54, online ; see. also the translation by Alexander Demandt : Great moments in history. CH Beck, Munich 2004, 124, online .
↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita 22,39,10 said this in a speech in the Second Punic War Quintus Fabius Maximus .
↑ Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the European Parliament, Strasbourg: November 17, 2004 ( Memento of November 18, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Germania, 24, 1
↑ Virgil : Aeneid ; XI, 283
^ Ovid : Ars amandi , 3, 511
↑ from Cyprian's letters, ep. 73.21

[1] Detlef Liebs et al., Latin legal rules and legal proverbs . Munich (Beck) 1982

[2] Letter to Lucius Lucceius: Epistulae ad familiares ( letters to friends and confidants ) 5,12,1

[3] See the evidence in Meinolf Schumacher : "... is human." Medieval variations of an ancient sentence . In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 119 (1990), pp. 163–170, online