List of Latin Phrases / Q

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Qua

Qua patet orbis
“As far as the earth reaches” - the phrase appears in an elegy that Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich wrote in 1812 on the death of his academic teacher Christian Gottlob Heyne . It says in it:
"Virtutis monumenta tuae testisque perennis
Cultior, immensum qua patet, orbis erit"
"The monument and immortal witness of your ability
will be more educated, as immeasurably far as it extends."
Quaque the (qd)
"Every day" instruction on medical prescription.
Quaque hora (qh)
"At any hour" - instruction on medical prescription.

Quae

Quae Caesaris Caesari, quae Dei Deo.
"To the emperor, what the emperor, God, what God." - Jesus' answer to the trick question whether Jews are allowed to pay taxes to the Roman emperor. Quoted from the Gospel according to Mark , 12.17. The Greek original is: Τὰ Καίσαρος ἀπόδοτε Καίσαρι καὶ τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τῷ θεῷ. (Ta Kaisaros apodote Kaisari kai ta tou theou tō theō.)
Quae caret ora cruore nostro?
"Which coast has not yet (drunk) our blood?" - Horace , carmina 2: 1, 36 about the Roman civil war between Caesar and Pompey.
Quae fuerant vitia, mores sunt.
“What vices are are customs” - Seneca , Epistulae morales 39.6.
In the context it says: “tunc autem est consummata infelicitas, ubi turpia non solum delectant, sed etiam placent, et desinit esse remedio locus, ubi, quae fuerant vitia, mores sunt.” - “But then the peak of misfortune is reached when immorality is not only enjoyable but also applauded, and there is no longer any prospect of cure where what used to be vices is considered normal behavior. "
Quae medicamenta non sanant, ferrum sanat; quae ferrum non sanat, ignis sanat; quae vero ignis non sanat, insanabilia reputari oportet.
“What drugs don't heal, the knife heals; what the knife does not heal, the fire heals; but what the fire does not heal must be regarded as incurable. ”- From the aphorisms of the ancient doctor Hippocrates . This saying was used, in abbreviated form, by Friedrich Schiller as the motto for The Robbers .
Quae nocent, docent.
"What harms teaches." - Corresponds to the German saying "Damage makes you smart."
Quae vide (qq. V.)
“See this” - plural of “ quod vide ”.
Quae volumus, et credimus libenter.
"What we want, we like to believe."

Quaecumque

Quecumque from Aristotle dicta essent, commentita esse.
"And whatever Aristotle said was a lie." - Allegedly the master's thesis of the French humanist Petrus Ramus , who turned against the scholasticism based on Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas .

Quaere

Quaere et invenies.
"Search and you will find."
Newfoundland and Labrador Coat of Arms

Quaerite

Quaerite primum regnum Dei.
“Seek the kingdom of God first.” - Mt 6.33  VUL .
With a slight deviation ( prime instead of primum ), this request is also the motto of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador .

Quaestio

Quaestio iuris
"Legal question" - question about the justification, justification and legitimacy of the knowledge in Immanuel Kant .
Quaestio facti
"Question of fact" - question about the knowledge of the facts.

Qualis

Qualis artifex pereo!
“What an artist dies with me!” - According to Suetonius , Nero 49.1, Nero is said to have spoken these words before his suicide.
Qualis rex, talis grex.
"Like the king, like his flock." - Bavarian : "Like the lord, so's Gscherr."
Qualis sit animus, ipse animus nescit.
"The soul itself does not know how constituted the soul is."
Qualis vita, finis ita.
"Like life, so is the end."

Quam

Quam non est facilis virtus! Quam vero difficilis eius diuturna simulatio!
“How is virtue not easy! But how difficult is their constant hypocrisy! ”- Cicero , Letter Ad Atticum (7,1,6).

Quamvis

The Latona fountain in the park of the Palace of Versailles represents the moment of the transformation of the Lycian peasants.
Quamvis sint sub aqua, sub aqua maledicere temptant.
“Although they are under water, they still try to scold” - Ovid , Metamorphoses 6, 376: The Lycian farmers were transformed into frogs by the goddess Latona because they refused to allow her to drink from a lake. The point of the verse lies in the onomatopoeia : “ ... sub aqua, sub aqua ...onomatopoeically imitates the croaking of the frogs.

Quando

Quando conveniunt Ancilla, Sibylla, Camilla,
garrire incipiunt et ab hoc et ab hac et ab illa
"When Ancilla, Sibylla and Camilla meet, the chattering starts right away about him, about those and about those!" - Two hexameters from Wittenberg Professor Friedrich Taubmann about talkative women.
An unknown composer composed a canon based on this Latin text (recorded in 1860).
Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus.
“Sometimes even the great Homer sleeps.” - Horace , Ars poetica 359.
The full quote reads: “Indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus” (“I am annoyed if the excellent Homer sleeps too”). While Horace can laugh at the mistakes and oversights of smaller artists and poets, he is annoyed when he discovers a negligence in the great Homer .

So to say

Quasi modo geniti infantes
"Like the newborn children" - Quasimodogeniti is the first Sunday after Easter , also called White Sunday (Dominica in Albis) or, since 2000, Catholic Mercy Sunday in Protestant and Catholic church years . The name comes from the antiphon to the introitus , which comes from the 1st letter of Peter: " Quasi modo geniti infantes - alleluia - rationabile sine dolo lac concupiscite, alleluia alleluia alleluia." ("How the newborn children are - Hallelujah! - after the spiritual." , eager for pure milk, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! ")
In the Vulgate is sicut for quasi "Sicut modo geniti infantes, rationabile, sine dolo lac concupiscite." ( 1 Pt 2,2a  VUL )
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was found at Victor Hugo's on this day and is therefore called "Quasimodo".

Quater

Quater in the (qid)
"Four times a day" - on medical prescriptions.

Quem

Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat.
"Whoever God wants to destroy, he takes his mind first." - According to Publilius Syrus , Sententiae S 29: "Stultum facit Fortuna, quem vult perdere".
With this saying, a person's downfall is attributed to their stupidity.
Also handed down with the plural quos : "Quos Deus perdere vult, dementat prius."
Füssli : Thetis weeps for the dead Achilles
Quem di diligunt, adulescens moritur.
“Whoever the gods love dies young.” - Plautus , Bacchides 816 f.
The sentence comes from the play The double deceiver by Menander : Ὅν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν, ἀποθνῄσκει νέος. ( Hon hoi theoi philousin, apothnēskei neos. ) - "Whoever the gods love, dies young."
Plautus uses this sentence very sarcastically:
Chrysalus (to the dubious Nicobulus): “Whoever the gods love dies young, as long as he is still well, thinking and in his right mind. If any god loved him: for more than ten years, more than twenty years ago, he would have to be dead. He now walks around as hatred of the earth, knows nothing, thinks nothing, is worth as much as a musty mushroom. ”(Bacchides 818–821)
Quem taurum metuis, vitulum mulcere solebas.
“Whom you fear as a bull, you always petted as a calf.” - Ovid
Quem fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro adpone!
“Book one every day that fate gives you as a profit!” - Horace , carmina 1, 9, 14 f.
Direct continuation of “ Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere! "
Compare Carpe diem .

Qui

Qui amant, ipsi sibi somnia fingunt.
“Those who love create dreams for themselves.” - Virgil , Bucolica 8,108. Actually formulated as a question.
Qui amat periculum, peribit in eo.
“He who loves danger will perish in it.” - From the Bible, Jesus Sirach 35.1.
Qui asinum non potest, stratum caedit.
“If you can't hit the donkey, you hit the riding rug.” - This Petronius quote is comparable to the German saying: “ Hit the sack, but mean the donkey. "
Qui commodum habet, etiam incommodum ferre debet.
"Whoever has the benefit must also bear the damage."
Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
“Whoever wants peace, prepare for war.” - Flavius ​​Vegetius Renatus , Epitoma rei militaris 3, praefatio .
See also “ Si vis pacem para bellum ”.
Qui diligit filium suum, adsiduat illi flagella.
"Whoever loves his son has the stick ready for him." - From the instructions for upbringing in the Old Testament ( Sir 30.1  EU ).
Qui dormit, non peccat.
"He who sleeps does not sin."
Qui fert malis auxilium, post tempus dolet.
“Whoever brings help to villains must later atone for it.” - Phaedrus, Fabulae 4,18,1; of the man who fed a snake on his bosom.
Qui fodit foveam, incidet in eam.
"Whoever digs a pit will fall into it." - Bible quote ( Prov. 26:27  EU )
Qui melius probat, melius have.
"Whoever brings the better evidence is in a better position." - Sentence of Roman law
Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.
“He who cannot disguise himself cannot rule.” - From the French King Louis XI. It is said that he asked his son, the future King Charles VIII , that he should only know these five Latin words.
Qui nimium probat, nihil probat.
"If you prove too much, you don't prove anything."
Qui non aemulatur, non amat.
“He who is not jealous does not love.” - Quote from the works of the Doctor of the Church Augustine .
Compare "Qui non zelat, non amat." - "He who does not zealous does not love."
Qui peccat ebrius, luat sobrius.
"Anyone who sins while drunk should pay for it soberly."
Qui potest capere, capiat.
“Let him who can understand it understand” - Matthew 19:12.
Qui pro quo?
"Anyone for whom?" - Quiproquo means confusion of people in comedies .
A distinction must be made between these: quid pro quo .
Qui se excusat, se accusat.
"Those who apologize accuse themselves." - Compare the French saying "Qui s'excuse, s'accuse" and the Latin "Dum excusare credis, accusas" ("While you think you are apologizing, you are accusing yourself") from the writings of the church father Jerome .
Qui sibi semitam non sapiunt, alteri monstrant viam!
“Those who don't know a path for themselves - they show someone the way!” - Ennius , fr <agmenta> scen <ica> 321.
Qui study optatam cursu contingere metam,
multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit,
abstinuit venere et vino.
"Anyone who tries to achieve the desired goal in a race
has endured and done a lot at a young age, has sweated and frozen,
has renounced love and wine."
Horace , Ars poetica , 412-414.
Qui suo iure utitur, nemini facit iniuriam.
"Those who claim their rights do no wrong to anyone."
Qui tacet, consentire videtur (ubi loqui potuit et debuit)
"Those who remain silent seem to agree (where they could and should have spoken)." - Pope Boniface VIII.
Qui tangit, frangature.
"Whoever touches (me) shall be broken!" - the motto of the English warship HMS Repulse
Flag of the US state Connecticut with the motto: "Qui transtulit, sustinet."
Qui transtulit, sustinet.
“He who brought over will receive.” - Motto of the US state Connecticut
Qui uti scit, ei bona; illi, qui non utitur, recte mala.
"Those who know how to use them are good to them, and those who don't use them are rightly bad." - Quote from the works of the Roman poet Terence
Qui vitia odit, homines odit.
“He who hates mistakes, hates people.” - Quote from the works of the Roman poet Pliny the Elder. J.
Qui vult decipi, decipiatur.
“Anyone who wants to be cheated can be cheated.” - Roman law: excessive carelessness does not justify any claim to protection by the law. Compare Volenti non fit iniuria .

Quicumque

Quicumque in Christo baptizati estis, Christum induistis.
“All of you who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” - Paul , Letter to Galatians 3:27

Quid

Quid ad me?
"What about me?" - What does that mean for me? How does this affect me?
Quid agis?
"What are you doing?" - How are you?
Quid ais?
"What do you say?" - What do you mean?
Quid est in homine optimum et pessimum? Lingua.
“What is the best and (at the same time) the worst in people? The tongue."
Quid est libertas? Potestas vivendi, ut velis.
“What is freedom? The ability to live as you want. ”- Cicero , Paradoxa Stoicorum 5,1,34.
Pontius Pilate to Jesus: “Quid est veritas?” Painting by Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Ge
Quid est veritas?
“What is truth?” - Question of Pontius Pilate in the interrogation of Jesus (John 18.38 EU).
Quid faciunt leges, ubi sola pecunia regnat?
“What use are the laws where there is only money?” - Petronius , Satyricon 14.2.
Quid leges sine moribus?
"What use are laws without morality?" - This sentence by Horace (Carmina 3,24,35 f.) Reads completely: "Quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt?" ( "What use are laws if they are hollow without morality?" )
Quid nimis miseri volunt, hoc facile credunt.
"What the unfortunate want too much, they easily believe." - From the tragedy Hercules furens (313 f) by the philosopher Seneca .
Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames?
"Why don't you drive mortal hearts, accursed hunger for gold?" - Quote from Virgil's Aeneid . (III, 56).
Quid novi ex Africa?
“What's new from Africa?” - Variation on Ex Africa semper aliquid novi . Derived from a quote from the natural history of Aristotle , in which it says “ Ἀεὶ Λιβύη φέρει τι καινόν. (“ Libya always brings something new. ”) Aristotle is referring to the biodiversity in Libya ( Libya became Africa in the Latin translation ).
Quid nunc? or Quidnunc?
"What now?" - As a noun is a Quidnunc a busybody or a blabbermouth.
Quid pro quo
"What for what" - an economic principle according to which someone who gives something should receive an appropriate return service. Further meanings under the lemma .
To be distinguished from this: Qui pro quo?
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.
"Why are you laughing? The story is about you by a different name. ”- Horace , Sermones I. 1. 69.
Quid Romae faciam? Mentiri nescio?
“What am I doing in Rome? I can't (can) lie? ”- Quote from the works of Juvenal .
Quid, si nunc caelum ruat?
"What if the sky collapsed now?" - Typical turn of phrase of eternal pessimists ( Terenz , Heautontimoroumenos , 719)
Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere!
“Be careful not to ask what will be tomorrow!” - Horace, Carmina, I, 9,13
The continuation in the following verse shows that the sentence is meant as an invitation to live in today: "" Quem fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro adpone! "-" And every day that fate gives you, book as profit! "

Quidquid

Quidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem.
“Whatever you do, do it wisely and consider the consequences.” - This sentence comes from the late medieval collection of examples Gesta Romanorum (German: “Taten der Römer”) and could go back to Aesop's fable 45. In the pseudo-Pythagorean golden sayings it says “ Βουλεύου δὲ πρὸ ἔργου, ὅπως μὴ μῶρα πέληται. (“ Think before the act, so that nothing foolish emerges from it. ”) Similarly, it says with Jesus Sirach (7.36 EU ): With everything you do, think of the end, so you will never sin.
Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.
"Whatever persuade the kings madman, punished the Achaeans ." - "For every frenzy of their kings are punished the Achaeans." The people of the rulers must suffer the delusion ( Horace , Epistulae 1.2.14)
Quidquid discis, tibi discis.
"Whatever you learn, you learn for yourself."
Quidquid est factum, semper est factum totum.
“Whatever has always happened has always happened in full.” - Cf. Catena aurea , 13.
Laocoon group (statue in the Vatican Museums )
Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
“Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even if they bring gifts” - Laocoon in Virgil's Aeneid about the Danaer gift of the Trojan horse . Laocoon and his sons are strangled by snakes for this warning. After the Greek army has faked their departure, the Trojans bring the wooden horse into the city, which can then be conquered by the Greeks.
Often cited in the shortened version Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes .
There is also the profane kitchen Latin variation “Quidquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.” (“Whatever it is, I fear the girls, even if they give kisses”). The hexametric meter is lost.
Quidquid in altum Fortuna tulit, ruitura levat.
“Whatever lifts up fate, lifts it up to overthrow it.” - Seneca , Agamemnon 100 f.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
"Whatever is said in Latin sounds demanding."
Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.
“Whatever you will teach, be brief!” - Horace , Ars poetica 335.
Quidquid praeter spem eveniat, omne id deputa esse in lucro.
"Everything that happens contrary to expectations, count as profit."
Quidquid valet de genere, valet et (etiam) de specie.
"What is true of the genus also applies to the species."

Quiescendo

Quiescendo et sedendo anima fit sapiens et prudens.
“By resting and sitting, the spirit becomes wise and wise.” - Thomas Aquinas, De anima 1,8,19.
With this sentence, Thomas does not plead for lazy doing nothing, but for silence and reflection.

Quilibet

Quilibet fortunae suae faber.
"You make your own luck."

Quinctili

Quinctili Vare, redde legiones!
Quinctilius Varus , give the legions back!” - Emperor Augustus after the battle in the Teutoburg Forest ( Suetonius , Vita divi Augusti 23.2).

Quinque

Quinque horas dormisse sat est iuvenique senique.
"To have slept five hours is enough for the young man and the old man."

Quis

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
“Who will guard the guards themselves?” - Juvenal , satire 6,347 f.
Juvenal is outraged by the moral decline among the Roman women who even seduced the guards appointed by their husbands.
Quis famulus amantior domini quam canis?
“Which servant is more loving to his master than a dog?” - Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella , De re rustica 7,12,1
Quis leget haec?
"Who should read this?"
Quis? Quid? Ubi? Quibus auxiliis? Cur? Quomodo? Quando?
"Who? What? Where? By what? Why? How? When? ”- A hexameter , written by the Frankfurt philosopher Joachim Georg Darjes , which enumerates the categories of school philosophy of the 18th century.
Quis Solem fallere possit?
"Who could deceive the sun god?" - quote from the Ars amatoria of Ovid which describes how Venus and Mars had hidden in her love nest. But the sun god Sol saw them both red-handed and told Vulcanus , the husband of Venus, about it. Vulcanus tied an invisible net with which he held Venus and Mars at a further meeting and displayed them to the other gods, who were very amused and broke out into so-called Homeric laughter .
Archangel Michael at Cologne Cathedral
Quis ut deus?
“Who is like God?” - translation of the Hebrew name Michael . The Archangel Michael therefore often has the motto “Quis ut deus?” On his shield.

Quive

Quive nummos aureos argenteos adulteraverit ...
"Or whoever falsifies gold or silver coins ..." - quote from the Lex Cornelia testamentaria nummaria from 82 BC. Chr.

Quo

Quo fas et gloria ducunt
"Where fame and honor lead us"
Quo fata ferunt
“Wherever fate takes us” - Bermuda s motto
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?
“How much longer, Catiline, do you want to abuse our patience?” - The opening words of Cicero in his first Catilinarian speech before the Roman Senate on the Conspiracy of Catiline in 63 BC. Chr. (Cic., Cat. 1,1).
Also handed down in spelling with "Quousque tandem ..." and in short form in use: "Quo usque tandem?" - "How much longer?"
Quo vadis ?
“Where are you going?” - According to the apocryphal Acts of Peter , Peter asked this question when Jesus appeared to him on the Via Appia outside Rome . Christ is said to have answered that he was coming to be crucified a second time; then the apostle turned back and suffered martyrdom in Rome .

Quocunque

Isle of Man Coat of Arms
Quocunque jeceris stabit
“Wherever you throw it, it will stand” - Isle of Man coat of arms inscription

Quod

Quod bonum, faustum, felix, fortunatumque sit!
“May this be good, cheap, happy and blessed!” - Old blessing formula, Cicero , De Divinatione 102.
Evidence by Johan Philip Lansberg with the closing formula "Quod erat demonstrandum"
Quod erat demonstrandum (qed)
“What was to be proven.” - Reference in the result of a mathematical or generally logical course of evidence to identity with the original proposition . The original Greek formulation ascribed to Euclid is: Ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι. .
Quod esset demonstrandum
"What needs to be proven"
Quod est in mundo, sit in actis.
"Everything that is in the world (about crime) should also be in the files."
The underlying legal principle is actually “ Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. " (" What is not in the files is not in the world. ") He calls for the principle of written form in procedural law, similar to the maxim" Quod non legitur, non creditur ". ("What is not read is not believed.")
Quod est necessarium, est licitum
"What is necessary is legal"
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi .
“What is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to the ox.” - The origin of this phrase is not completely clear. The verse “Aliis si licet, tibi non licet.” (“If others are allowed, then not you”) ( Terenz , Heautontimoroumenos , 797) was probably brought into the rhyming form in medieval times.
Quod me nutrit, me destruit.
“What nourishes me destroys me.” - the motto of the English poet Christopher Marlowe , which is also on his portrait at Corpus Christi College .
Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo .
“What is not in the files does not exist.” - Roman legal principle; Variant of " Quod non legitur, non creditur ".
Alternatively, there is also litteris (for example: writings) instead of actis .
Variant: “ Quod est in mundo, sit in actis. "
Entrance to the Pantheon
Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini.
“What the barbarians did not do, the Barberini did.” - The mocking verse of the apostolic protonotary Carlo Castelli to Pope Urban VIII from the Barberini family , who made the tabernacle of St. Peter's Church and eighty cannons for installation on the Castel Sant'Angelo from the bronze cladding of the Pantheon let pour. The allusion is to the devastation of Rome by the barbaric vandals in 455, who looted the city but left the works of art in their place. In an inscription in the vestibule of the Pantheon from 1632, Urban explains that he had the bronze coffered ceiling of the old temple of gods melted down,
" Ut decora inutilia / et ipsi prope famae ignota / fierent / in Vaticano templo / Apostolici sepulchri ornamenta / in Hadriana arce / instrumenta publicae securitatis "
(" So that the useless ornamentation in the Vatican Temple, almost unknown to Fama himself, becomes a jewel in the apostle's tomb, and in Hadrian Castle becomes a tool of public security ") .
Quod non legitur, non creditur
“What is not read is not believed.” - Roman legal principle.
Quod omnes tangit, from omnibus approbari debet.
“What concerns everyone must be approved by everyone.” - The principle of unanimity in the German Reichstag from the 16th century
Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.
“What the master has ordered has the force of law.” - The sentence of the late classical lawyer and civil servant Ulpian , which is passed down in the digest of Emperor Justinian .
The sentence expresses the idea, to be understood in a concrete and literal sense, that the princeps  - in Ulpian's time the Roman emperor - is endowed with the mandate of complete and absolute legislative power over and for the state. It says in full:
“Quod principi placuit, legis habet vigorem: Utpote cum lege regia, quae de imperio eius lata est, populus ei et in eum omne suum imperium et potestatem conferat.” (“What the princeps has ordered has the force of law. Because with the royal law that was given to him through his rulership, the people have given him all their rulership and power instead of themselves. ")
What is meant is that the ruler rules in the name and by the will of the people ("in eum").
The short version also became a Spanish proverb " Allá van leyes donde quieren reyes ". ("There are laws where the kings want it.")
The insurgent and later second President of the USA, John Adams , opposed this monarchist principle with his idea of ​​the separation of powers and democracy - not governed by people, but by law:
"In the government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the legislative, executive, and judicial power shall be placed in separate departments, to the end that it might be a government of laws, and not of men." ("In the government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, legislative, executive, and judicial powers are placed in separate administrations so that it may be a government of law, not of people.")
Quod semper, ubique et ab omnibus creditum est, hoc est vere catholicum.
“Whatever has been believed, everywhere and by everyone, that is truly Catholic .” - Quotation of a principle by Vincent de Lérins ( Commonitorium , 434) for ecclesiastical orthodoxy
Quod scripsi, scripsi!
“What I have written, I have written!” - “Written is written!” - Pontius Pilate's reply to the objections to the INRI inscription on the cross , according to the Gospel according to John (19, 22). The original Greek formulation was: ὃ γέγραφα γέγραφα .
Quod supra nos, nihil ad nos.
"What (is) about us, (means) nothing to us." - The things about us ( meteora ) have no meaning for our conduct of life. A maxim that is ascribed to the philosopher Socrates, with which he distinguishes himself from the early natural philosophers, the pre-Socratics , who were looking for the foundations of the world. So, as Cicero put it, Socrates brought philosophy from heaven to earth, that is, he practiced ethics instead of physics.
Quod temptabam scribere, versus erat.
"What I tried to write was a verse". - Ovid , Tristia 4,10,26.
Here the poet tells how he wanted to stop poetry following the example of his brother and on the advice of his father, but in his attempts at writing “a poem came out of its own accord with suitable dimensions, and what I tried to write became a verse. "
Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris!
“What you don't want someone to do to you, don't do it to anyone else.” - Golden rule ; Alexander Severus . The original Greek formulation in the New Testament is: Πάντα οὖν ὅσα ἐὰν θέλητε ἵνα ποιῶσιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οὕτως καὶ ὑμτεοῖς ποιεῖτε αὐτοῖς.
Quod vide or Quod videas (qv)
“See this” or “See this” - after a term that should be looked up elsewhere in the document.

quorum

Quorum pars magna fui.
"I played a big part in that." - From the introduction by Aeneas to his description of the fall of Troy (Virgil, Aeneid 2.5.)
Goethe refers to this passage in his letter to Karl Ludwig von Knebel about the Valmy cannonade . Like Aeneas, he emphasizes that he saw the misfortune with his own eyes, but then changes the quote and writes: “et quorum pars minima fui” (“and I had a little part in it”). Whether the often-quoted sentence of Goethe's from the Campagne written twenty years later in France (“You can say, you were there”) really happened at the time is not yet proven; however, the letter to Knebel is written “directly from the scene”.

Quos

Quos Deus perdere vult, dementat prius.
“God first takes the mind of those whom God wants to destroy.” - For the origin and use of the proverb compare “ Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat. "
Quos ego
"I will ..." - Aposiopesis from the first book of the Aeneid by Virgil , Neptune's call to the raging winds. As an art motif, recorded by Peter Paul Rubens, among others . Galletti speaks anachronistically, but basically aptly, of Virgil's famous words "quos ego" - "and then he made a dash."

Quot

Quot capita, dead sensus
“As many opinions as heads.” - Based on Horace , Satires II 1, 27 f .: “quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum milia” (“how many thousand heads live, there are so many thousand aspirations”) .
Quot homines, dead sententiae.
“How many people, so many views.” - Terenz , Phormio 454.
Because sententia also means the vote cast in a vote, the sentence can also say how many people, so many votes ; this means that the votes are counted, not weighed. Pliny expresses this in a letter with the sentence: numerantur sententiae, non ponderantur (“The votes are counted, not weighed”).
Quot servi, dead hosts.
"How many slaves, so many enemies."

Individual evidence

  1. Caesar , de bello civili 2,27,2
  2. Ars amatoria 2,1,341
  3. The relevant manuscript group O as well as most manuscripts of class L have faciunt . There is no reason to deviate from it. For this and for the translation of faciunt in the sense of proficiunt (linguistic appearance of the verbum simplex instead of the v. Compositum ) see: Natalie Breitenstein: Petronius, Satyrica 1–15. Text, translation, comment . Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-11-022082-7 . Incidentally, Wilhelm Heinse already translated (Events of Enkolp) in 1773 Alone what helps the law .
  4. ^ Gesta Romanorum, Cap. CIII Ulrich Zell , Cologne after 1472. ( digitized from ULB Düsseldorf )
  5. ^ Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Epistles . perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  6. http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneis/Liber_II , verse 49
  7. Proverbs and winged words - Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini ( Memento of December 28, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Digesta, I, 4, 1 pr.
  9. Robert Tierney: John Adams "Government of Laws, Not Men". (PDF, 20 kB) In: Houston Community College Learning Web . July 16, 2013, accessed on August 29, 2020 (incorrect quote here: “rigor” instead of correct “vigor”; for the author, see web address, creation date in PDF metadata).
  10. ^ Ernst Lautenbach: Latin - German: Quotations Lexicon : Source references / Ernst Lautenbach. Münster: Lit, 2002, p. 707. In his Octavius ​​13,1,2, Minucius Felix assigns the saying to Socrates. Wording under M. Minucius Felix: Octavius .
  11. Proverbs and winged words - Quod supra nos, nihil ad nos ( Memento of December 28, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  12. Rüdiger Safranski , Goethe. Artwork of life . Munich 2013. p. 373.
  13. Epistulae 2, 12, 5