List of Latin Phrases / H

Habeas

Habeas corpus .: "One should hold the person." - An arrest must be justified. With these two words begin several medieval English legal texts, for example in the sense that a prisoner in person must be fed to a court. This legal principle was codified in the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 under King Charles II of England .

Habeas tibi.: “Keep it to yourself.” - Plautus : Stichus 615

Habeat

Habeat sibi.: “He may have it (his will).” - “For me!” - Terenz , Andria IV.1; "Should she keep it (the pledge) for herself!" - Vulgate , Gen 38.23 EU ( literally with Luther : "Sie habs jr" [= her ] - Judah has given a supposed whore a pledge and now wants it with one Trigger the billy goat, but the woman can no longer be found, and Judah says this sentence.

Habemus

Habemus confitentem reum.: “We have a confessed defendant.” - Cicero : Pro Ligario 2

Habemus Papam, 1415

Habemus papam.: “We have a Pope.” - With this formula a successful papal election by the cardinal protodeacon is announced. In full it is called (if the elected new Pope is a cardinal of the Roman Church):; " Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam. Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum dominum, Dominum (first name of the Pope) , Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalem (last name of the Pope) , qui sibi nomen imposuit (Pope's name) . "; “I announce great joy to you: we have a Pope! The most outstanding and most venerable Lord, Mr. [first name] , of the Holy Roman Church Cardinal [last name] , who has given himself the name [Pope's name] . "

Have

Have sua fata libelli.: “Little books have their fates.” - Terentianus Maurus . The quote reads in full:; " Pro captu lectoris have sua fata libelli. "; "As far as the reader is concerned, little books have their fates."

Got it

Habes, habenberis.: "If you have something, then you are worth something." - Petron , Satyricon , 77.6.

Have

Have.: "He has" - According to a legend, the Pope is said to have previously revealed his manhood to a confidante to show that he is not a woman. The sworn in confirmed his observation on the famous chair with the word "Habet" - "He has" (see Popess Johanna ).; But see also Hoc habet .

Have sua quemque this.: “Everyone has their day.” - Gaius Valerius Flaccus , Argonautica .

Hac

Hac itur ad astra.: “This is the way to go to the stars.” - Seneca; In contrast to Virgil , there is no talk here of the path to fame and honor, but of the development of man into the perfect wise man, i.e. the ascent into the sphere of the divine. Seneca himself does not take this slightly modified quote from the Aeneid, but instead quotes one of his teachers, the Stoic philosopher Quintus Sextius , and refers to his teaching: “So we trust Sextius, who shows the most beautiful path and exclaims: 'On this path one goes to the stars', on that of frugality, on that of moderation, on that of fortitude. ”This path not only leads to the gods, but“ they invite us and take us by the hand as we ascend. Are you amazed that man goes to the gods? God comes to people. "; Seneca had already adopted the expression Virgil's "sic itur ad astra"; there, too, he continues with reference to Stoic philosophy: “For this is what philosophy promises me, namely that it will make me equal to God; this is what I am called to do! "

Haec

Haec olim meminisse iuvabit.: “We will remember it fondly.” - From Virgil's Aeneis , where it says: “Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.” (“Maybe we will remember it fondly.”)

Philipp Friedrich v. Hetsch - Cornelia, the mother of the Gracches (1794)

Haec ornamenta sunt mea.: "These are my jewelry." - ( Valerius Maximus ); This is what Cornelia, the mother of the Gracches , said to a woman who was her guest and who showed her wonderful jewelry. Cornelia held them out until her two sons came home from school and referred to them as her jewelry.; The painter Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch translated this scene into a picture.

Haec placuit semel, haec decies repetita placebit.: “This one has fallen once, this (other) will still be liked at the tenth repetition." - Horace , de arte poetica 365.; In this section Horace notes a similarity between poems and pictures: “ut pictura poesis” (361).

Haec tamquam cygnea fuit eius vox et oratio.: "That was like his swan song."; A shortened quotation from Cicero ( de oratore 3,6). It reads correctly as follows: " Illa tamquam cycnea fuit divini hominis vox et oratio ."

Hannibal

Hannibal ante portas: "Hannibal (stands) at the gates." - Cicero's actually: "Hannibal ad portas" ("Hannibal at the gates"), who used this phrase metaphorically as a warning against Mark Antony .; Today mostly shortened to ante portas .

Hic

Hic Abdera.: “Here is Abdera.” - In a letter to his friend and publisher Atticus , Cicero characterized a scene in the Roman Senate with the words: “Hic est Abdera non tacente me.” (“Here was Abdera and I could no longer be silent.” ); Abdera was the ancient Schilda . Christoph Martin Wieland located his satirical novel The Abderites in Abdera and portrayed the folly of the Abderites as a basic human constant.

Hic aqua haeret.: “The water stops here.” - According to the phrase “aqua haeret” (“the water stops”), already quoted by Cicero as a proverb (“ut aiunt” - “as they say”), in the sense of “doing it / so goes it no longer ”. Cicero, de officiis 3,117.

Hic et nunc .: "Here and now."

Hic futui bene.

Hic habitat felicitas.

Hic habitat felicitas.: "This is where happiness lives." Frequent graffito as a reference to a Lupanar

Hic habitat felicitas, nihil intret mali.: "This is where happiness lives, nothing bad happens." - Mosaic slogan in the entrance hall of a Roman villa, found in 1842 during the archaeological excavations on Mozartplatz in Salzburg, when the Mozart monument was erected.

Hic iacet ...: "Here lies ..." - inscription on gravestones.

Hic latet anguis in herba.: “Here is a snake hiding in the grass.” - Going back to Virgil , Ecloge 3.93, where it says: “Fugite hinc, latet anguis in herba.” (“Get away from here! A snake is hiding in the grass.”)

Hic locus est, partis ubi se via findit in ambas.: “Here is the place where the path divides .” - Quote from the Aeneid (VI, 541-543) by the poet Virgil . The right path leads into the Elysium , the left into Tartarus .

Hic locus est, ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae.: "Here is the place where death is happy to help life."; Inscription in verse form ( hexameter ) at many anatomical institutes and museums, e.g. B. at the anatomy of the Paris Sorbonne and the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Hic Rhodus, hic salta .: "Here is Rhodes , here jump!" - The words come from the fable "The Boastful" by Aesop and were an invitation to a pentathlon who had repeatedly pointed out his achievements in the long jump on Rhodes. When his interlocutors had enough of his boasting, they asked him to repeat the jump on the spot.

Hic sepultus ...: "Here is buried ..."

Hic situs est ...: "Here is …"

Hic sunt dracones. Hic sunt leones.: Hic sunt leones : "Here are the lions." - These words were used to describe the areas beyond the borders during the time of the Roman Empire. Also on old maps in the sense of “ terra incognita ” or “ nullius terra ”.; Hic sunt dracones : "Here are dragons." - Modern variation on the ancient "Hic sunt leones".

Hinc

Hinc illae lacrimae: "Hence the tears" - This winged word is used when giving an explanation that is not obvious. In the comedy Andria (“The Girl of Andros”) by the poet Terence , Simo refers to the tears of his son Pamphilus at the funeral of a neighbor. At first he thought that was an expression of a special participation. But when he found out that the deceased's pretty sister was going along in the funeral procession, he realized why his son was playing the emotion. This phrase is already mentioned by Cicero (Pro Caelio 25.61) and Horace (Epistulae I, 19.41).

Hinc omne principium, huc refer exitum.: “From here all the beginning, referring to this the end.” - Horace , carmina 3,6,6.; The poet here points out that the Romans have to atone for the “delicta maiorum” (v. 1, “the guilt of the fathers”) because they neglect the gods: the blessed beginning of Rome is due to them, as is all the present misfortune .

Hinc robur et securitas.: "From here (come) strength and security."

Hirundines

Hirundines aestivo tempore praesto sunt, frigore pulsae recedunt. Ita falsi amici.: “The swallows are present in summer, driven away by the cold, they withdraw. So also the wrong friends. "; This dictum goes back to the anonymous author of a rhetoric manual, the so-called Auctor ad Herennium . In 4.61 he brings the complete sentence as an example of a correctly constructed analogy (similitudo):; “Ita ut hirundines aestivo tempore praesto sunt, frigore pulsae recedunt, […] item falsi amici sereno vitae tempore praesto sunt; simulatque hiemem fortunae viderunt, devolant omnes "(" Just as the swallows are here in summer and, driven away by the cold, leave, [...] the false friends are also present in the cheerful phase of life; as soon as they have seen a fateful winter, they make themselves all up and away ”).

Historia

Historia magistra vitae.: “History, the teacher of life.” - Cicero , de oratore 2,36.; There the predications of history read in full: “Historia testis temporum, lux veritatis, vitae memoriae, magistra vitae, nuntia vetustatis […]” (“History, the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the herald of ancient times [...] ")

Hoc

Hoc decet, hoc leges duxque pudorque iubent.: “It is befitting, the laws, the prince and shame command.” - A pentameter from Ovid , ars amatoria (3,614).

Hoc erat in votis.: “That was the content of my prayers.” - With these words, Horace thanks (Sermones 2,6,1–3) when his patron Maecenas gave him an estate in the Sabine mountains . The whole sentence is:; “Hoc erat in votis: modus agri non ita magnus, / hortus ubi et tecto vicinus iugis aquae fons / et paulum silvae super his foret.” ( “That was in my prayers: A piece of land, not so big, where a garden would be and next to the house a constant spring of water and a little forest on top of that. " )

Hoc est enim corpus meum.: “Because this is my body.” - From the consecration words of the mass . The word hocus-pocus allegedly originated from these quietly spoken words, which can only be heard indistinctly .

Death blow in a gladiatorial fight - relief of a Roman canteen

Hoc have.: "That (meant: this blow) sits!" Sometimes just shortened "Habet!"; This common phrase occurs more often in Latin literature; z. B. Plautus , Mostellaria 715 (translated from a ruse); Virgil Aeneid 12,296; Seneca Agamemnon 901 (with the addition "peractum est" - "it is done").; The gladiators also announced with this sentence that they had fatally hit their opponent.

Hoc Herculi, Iovis satu edito, potuit fortasse contingere, nobis non item.: "Hercules could possibly succeed in this, because brought forth from the seed of Zeus, and so could not us." - Cicero , de officiis 1,118.

Cicero passed on here (citing Xenophon , Memorabilia 2,1,21), the sentence with which Prodikos von Keos commented in the scene with Heracles at the crossroads the choice of the life path between Voluptas ( pleasure ) and Virtus ( heroism ).

Hoc libro.: "In this book here."

Hoc loco.: "In this place here."

Hoc nobis vitium maximum est, cum amamus, tum perimus.: "This is our biggest mistake: if we love, we perish."

Hoc signo vincitur inimicus…
coat of arms of Asturias

Hoc plus verere, quod licet tantum tibi.: "Are you rather afraid that so much is allowed to you." - With these words Seneca warns Emperor Nero against cockiness when he claims that he does not have to worry about the gods because he can create them himself.

Hoc signo vinces: "In this sign you will win." - Variant of " In hoc signo vinces ."

Hoc signo vincitur inimicus; hoc signo tuetur pius.: “In this sign the enemy is defeated; the pious is protected by this symbol ”- Flag of the Spanish Kingdom of Asturias .

Hoc volo, sic iubeo.: “I want that, I command that!” - The poet Juvenal cites this command in his satire 6,223 as typical of imperious women. In this case, a woman demands that her husband immediately execute a slave through no investigation into his fault. The whole sentence reads: "Hoc volo, sic iubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas." ("I want that, so I command! Instead of a reason, my will applies!")

Hodie

Hodie mihi, cras tibi: A sarcophagus in the Schleswig Cathedral

Hodie mihi, cras tibi.: “Today me, tomorrow you.” - Frequent inscription on epitaphs of the Renaissance period, occasionally on crucifixes.

Hominis

Hominis appellatione tam feminam quam masculum contineri non dubitatur.: “ There is no doubt that the designation human includes both women and men.” - Pandects 50.16.152.

homo

Homo bulla.: “Man is a bubble.” - That means, he is just as fragile and ephemeral.; This sentence is first encountered in Latin literature in Varro ( de re rustica 1,1,1), already quoted as a proverb: “ut dicitur, si est homo bulla” (“when, as it is said, man is a bubble ").; Similarly, one reads in Petronius ( Satyrikon 42,4): “Hey eheu! Utres inflati ambulamus. [...] Nos non pluris sumus quam bullae. "(" Woe, oh woe! We go around as inflated tubes. [...] We are no more than air bubbles ").; Based on this, this saying can be found in many collections of proverbs.

Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.: “A learned person always has his wealth in himself.” - Phaedrus; In his fable, which he prefixes the sentence “morality”, Phaedrus transfers this knowledge to Simonides von Keos . In a shipwreck, he refused to save his luggage with the remark “mecum mea sunt cuncta” (“I have everything that belongs to me with me”). The others loaded up with their property and were dragged into the depths while swimming or plundered by robbers on land, so that when Simonides saw them begging, Simonides could say to them: “I said that everything that was mine was mine, with me. What you have gathered is all gone. "(" Dixi mea mecum esse cuncta; vos quod rapuistis, perit "); This anecdote was originally attributed to Bias , one of the Seven Wise Men.

Homo faber: “Man as a craftsman” - the term homo faber is used in anthropology to distinguish modern man from older human epochs by virtue of his quality as an active modifier of his environment.; Homo Faber is a novel by Max Frisch in which the main character Faber has to realize within a few months through various unpredictable events that his technical worldview is not sufficient to grasp reality.

Homo homini deus.: "Man is a god to man" - was contrasted by Thomas Hobbes with the sentence " Homo homini lupus ":; "Profecto vtrumque vere dictum est, Homo homini deus, & Homo homini lupus. Illud si concives inter se. Hoc, si civitates comparemus. "

Homo homini lupus .: “Man is a wolf to man.” - the most famous variant of Lupus est homo homini , as it was originally called by the Roman poet Plautus .; The sentence has become proverbial and is often quoted, e.g. B. by Thomas Hobbes, who understands the competing striving for self-preservation among people. See also Homo homini deus .

Homo inter faeces et urinam conceptus est.: “Man emerges between faeces and urine” - a phrase used by the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness in his novel The Fish Concert, which is ascribed to Augustine without being verifiable in his case.

Homo ludens: “Der spielende Mensch” - title of a book published in 1938 by the Dutch cultural critic Johan Huizinga . The homo ludens developed his skills about the game.

Homo novus: "New man" - upstart. This meant a man who was the first of his family to hold the consulate .

Gravestone for Homo sapiens in the Eberswalde Zoo

Homo oeconomicus: “The economic man” - normal type of person who aligns his actions rationally and makes his decisions according to the economic principle to maximize his personal benefit.

Homo per se: "A person for himself" - term for Erasmus from Rotterdam in the so-called dark man letters .

Homo proponit, sed deus disponit.: “Man proposes, but God orders” or “Man plans, but God determines.” - Thesaurus proverbiorum medii aevi , p. 159, no. 436. The saying by Thomas a Kempis ( Imitatio Jesu Christi , I, 19 , 2) is often rendered in German as “Man thinks, [but] God directs”.; Bertolt Brecht satirizes this dictum when in his drama Mother Courage and Her Children he lets Mother Courage sing: “Man thinks: God guides. / Don't talk about it! "

Homo sacra res homini: "Man, something sacred for a person" ( Seneca )

homo sapiens: “The rational person” - the scientific name of the human species living today

Homo signorum from the Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry

Homo signorum: "Zodiac Sign Man" - The pictorial representation of premodern medicine based on astrology, which assigned the regions of the human body to the twelve signs of the zodiac.

Homo sine religione sicut equus sine freno.: "A person without religion is like a horse without reins."

Homo sociologicus: “The human being as a social being” - title of a book by Ralf Dahrendorf .

Homo sum. Humani nil a me alienum puto.: "I am a human. I do not consider anything human to be alien to me. ”- Quotation from the Heautontimorumenos (77) by the Roman poet Terence . Often quoted as "(...) Nothing human is alien to me."; Seneca quotes this saying in a letter to Lucilius (95, 53) in the passage in which he compares people in society with the stones of a vault.

Homo totiens moritur, quotiens amittit suos.: “Man dies whenever he loses family members.” - Quotation from the writings of the poet Publilius Syrus

Honest

Honeste vivere, neminem laedere, suum cuique tribuere.: "Live honestly, harm no one, give everyone their own." - From Ulpian - Foundation of the concept of distributive justice and proportionality

Honora

Honora patrem tuum et matrem, sicut praecepit tibi Dominus Deus tuus, ut longo vivas tempore et bene sit tibi in terra, quam Dominus Deus tuus daturus est tibi.: “Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God taught you, so that you may live long in the land that the Lord your God will give you.” - Fourth Commandment.

Honores

Honores mutant mores.: “Honors change morals” - high offices change character. ( Zenobius 1, 22)

Honoris

Honoris causa (hc): "Honorary" - Usually refers to an academic title awarded on an honorary basis by a university . If a person has received at least three honorary doctorates, the abbreviation is hc mult. common, which stands for honoris causa multiplex .

Honos

Honos est praemium virtutis.: “Honor is the reward of efficiency.” - Quote from Cicero, Brutus 281.

Honos have onus.: "Dignity has a burden."

Honos honestum decorat, inhonestum notat.: "What adorns the noble is the ignoble brand" - quote from the sentences of Publilius Syrus

Hora

Hora fugit, carpe diem.: "The hours flee, seize the day."

Hora somni (hs): "At bedtime" - with medical prescriptions

Horae

Horae vulnerable, ultima necat.: "Injury every hour, the last one kills."

Horas

Horas non numero nisi serenas.: “I don't count the hours if they are not cheerful” - “I only count the cheerful hours.” Inscription on sundials , from which the German saying “Do it like the sundial, just count the cheerful hours” is derived.

Horribile

Horribile auditu: "Awful to hear"

Horribile dictu: "Awful to say"

Horribile visu: "Awful to see"

The rare verb form auditu / dictu / visu is in the supinum II .

horror

Horror vacui: "Terror of the Void" - fear of the empty space.

Hosanna

Hosanna in excelsis.: “Hosanna on high.” - From the Sanctus of the Catholic liturgy . Hosanna or Hosanna is a Hebrew shout of joy ("Help it!") .

Hostes

Hostes hi sunt, qui nobis aut quibus nos publice bellum decrevimus; ceteri latrones aut praedones sunt.: “Enemies of the state are those who have declared war on us or on whom we have declared war on behalf of the state; the rest are highwaymen or robbers. ”- Pandects 10,16,18.; In Roman law , one of the requirements for a Bellum iustum was the formal declaration of war .

Huc

Hucusque auxiliatus est nobis Dominus.: “The Lord has helped us up to this point” - 1 Samuel 7:12.

Humanae

Humanae Vitae

Humanas

Humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere neque detestari, sed intellegere studui.: "I have tried not to laugh at human actions, not to mourn and not to abhor them, but to understand them." - Quotation from the Tractatus politicus by the philosopher Spinoza (1, 4)

Humanum

Humanum est errare.: “To err is human.” - Variant of “ Errare humanum est. "

Humanum est peccare, sed perserverare diabolicum.: "Sin is human, but persistence in error is diabolical."

Hunc

Hunc spiritum, ignotum hactenus, novo nomine gas voco.: “This spirit, previously unknown, is what I call the new name 'gas'.” - With these words, the Belgian researcher Johan Baptista van Helmont introduces the word gas , derived from the Greek word chaos , into the language of science. He leaned on the Greek word χάος ("chaos"), which is very similarly pronounced in Dutch :; " Ideo paradoxi licentia, in nominis egestate, halitum illum gas vocavi, non longe a chao veterum secretum. "; "In the absence of a name, I have taken the liberty of calling this breath of gas, as it differs little from the chaos of the ancients."

Individual evidence

↑ Article Meyers Lexicon 1907
^ Luther Bible 1912, Gen. 38.23 )
↑ Seneca , Letters to Lucilius 73.15
↑ Virgil, Aeneis 9,641: “ Sic itur ad astra. "(" This is how it goes to the stars. ")
↑ Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 48:11
^ Liber I , 203.
↑ Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia , 4.4
↑ Cicero, Ad Atticum 4,16,6
^ Rudolf Eisler : Dictionary of Philosophical Terms , 1904: Hic et nunc
^ Translation: Raphael Kühner: Marcus Tullius Cicero Vom Redner , Munich (Goldmann) oh. J. (= Goldmann p. 850-851)
↑ Phaedrus, fabulae 4,23,1
↑ Verse 14
↑ Verse 26 f.
↑ “If the essence of man is the highest being of man, then in practice the highest and first law must be love of man for man. Homo homini deus est - this is the highest practical principle - this is the turning point in world history. ”Ludwig Feuerbach. The essence of Christianity, chap. 28 .: Criticism of religion. 1849.
↑ online
↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon, 4th edition, 1885–1890, Volume 8, p. 698. Homo proponit, sed Dēus disponit. In: zeno.org. Retrieved February 17, 2015 .
↑ Scene 4, Song of the Great Surrender
↑ Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 95, 33

[1] Article Meyers Lexicon 1907

[2] Luther Bible 1912, Gen. 38.23 )

[3] Seneca , Letters to Lucilius 73.15

[4] Virgil, Aeneis 9,641: “ Sic itur ad astra. "(" This is how it goes to the stars. ")

[5] Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 48:11

[6] Liber I , 203.

[7] Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia , 4.4

[8] Cicero, Ad Atticum 4,16,6

[9] Rudolf Eisler : Dictionary of Philosophical Terms , 1904: Hic et nunc

[10] Translation: Raphael Kühner: Marcus Tullius Cicero Vom Redner , Munich (Goldmann) oh. J. (= Goldmann p. 850-851)

[11] Phaedrus, fabulae 4,23,1

[12] Verse 14

[13] Verse 26 f.

[14] “If the essence of man is the highest being of man, then in practice the highest and first law must be love of man for man. Homo homini deus est - this is the highest practical principle - this is the turning point in world history. ”Ludwig Feuerbach. The essence of Christianity, chap. 28 .: Criticism of religion. 1849.

[15] ↑ online

[zeno-2000678853-16] Meyers Konversationslexikon, 4th edition, 1885–1890, Volume 8, p. 698. Homo proponit, sed Dēus disponit. In: zeno.org. Retrieved February 17, 2015 .

[17] Scene 4, Song of the Great Surrender

[18] Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 95, 33