List of Latin Phrases / R

Rara

Rara avis: black swan

Rara avis: "Rare bird" - Something unusual or special - From Juvenal's satires (VI, 165):; "Rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cycno" - "a rare bird on earth and just like a black swan"; Allegedly originally referring to the phoenix according to Herodotus , later used for an unusual person or thing. For Horace the rare bird is a fried peacock .

Rara iuvant.: “Rare things like.” - From the epigrams of the poet Martial (IV, 29, 5).

Rara temporum felicitas, ubi quae velis sentire et quae sentias dicere licet.: "Rare happiness of the times when you can think what you want and say what you think!" - Motto of A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume based on Tacitus Historien I, 1. There: "rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet" ("... in the rare happiness of a time when you can think what you want and say what you think.")

Rara sunt cara.: "Rare is expensive"

Rari

Rari quippe bonuses.: "Seldom are good (people)." - From the Saturae of the poet Juvenal .

Rarum

Rarum esse oportet, quod diu carum velis.: “What should be valuable for a long time has to be rare.” - Quote from the works of the poet Publilius Syrus .

Ratio

Ratio decidendi: "The main reason for a (court) decision"

Ratio essendi: "Reason of being"

Ratio cognoscendi: "Reason for knowledge"

Ratio fatum vincere nulla potest.: “No reason can conquer fate.” - Ovid , Tristia 3.6.18.

Ratio legis: "Sense of the law"

Ratio praeteriti scire futura facit.: "Considering the past reveals the future."

rebus

Rebus sic stantibus: "So under permanent things" - "As long as things remain unchanged", reservation of the amendment of a contract ("clausula rebus sic stantibus") if the circumstances have changed in such a way that compliance with the contract is unreasonable.

Recte

Recte faciendo neminem timeas.: "Do right and don't be afraid of anyone." - Coin inscription on the truth thaler (1597/1598)

Recte facti fecisse merces.: “The reward for doing the right thing is having done it.” - Seneca , Epistulae morales 81:19.; Because “virtutum omnium pretium in ipsis est” (“the reward of all virtues lies in them”). [There]

Redde

Talk mihi milliones!: "Give back the millions!" - This sentence appears in a satirical epigram by Grillparzer from 1838:

When our great statesman understood that
his lap child was lost but the throne, he
cried, his head against the wall:
"Carlos, talk to me mihi milliones."

After the defeat of the Carlist at Valladolid in the First Carlist War (1833–1840), the poet referred to the famous saying of the Emperor Augustus after the defeat in the Teutoburg Forest (“ Vare, redde legiones meas! ” - “Varus, return my legions ! ") And on Metternich's aid payments .

Redeo

Redeo […] inhumanior, quia inter homines fui.: "I am returning [...] more inhuman because I was among people." - Seneca

Redire

Redire in viam: “To return to the (right) path.” - The dictum is a reformulated expression from the comedy Andria (v. 190) by Publius Terentius Afer .

Reductio

Reductio ad absurdum: “Return to the Absurd” - A proof technique that refutes a thesis by showing that its consequences are nonsensical; often in mathematics and philosophy.

Reductio ad Hitlerum: “Return to Hitler” - According to Leo Strauss, a pseudo-argument that makes use of Hitler's extreme negativity . Its general form is: "Hitler was A, that's why A is bad." Example: "Hitler liked to hear Wagner , that's why it's bad to hear Wagner." Variant of the argument ad hominem .

Reformatio

Reformatio in peius: "Change for the worse" - Prohibition of reformatio in pejus : rule of law, are not heavier sentenced after someone in the next instance, if he (but not the accuser) in appeal or revision has gone.

Regina

Regina Caeli , here with variant Coeli

Regina regit colorem: "The queen leads the color (of the square)" - chess rule about the starting position of a piece: "black queen, black square - white queen, white square" .

Regina caeli: "Queen of Heaven": The Regina caeli is a Marian antiphon that is sung during Easter:

Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia.
Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia,
Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.

O Queen of Heaven, rejoice, Hallelujah.
For he that you were worthy of wearing, Hallelujah,
has arisen, as he said, Hallelujah,

Regnat

Regnat populus.: "The people rule." - Motto of the US state Arkansas .

Regnum

Regnum Christi: "Kingdom of Christ" - An apostolic movement in the Catholic Church

Regnum meum non est de mundo hoc.: "My kingdom is not of this world." - Statement of Jesus according to the Gospel according to John 18:36.

Regnum tuum: "Your kingdom" - This means the kingdom of God as requested in the Our Father :; "Adveniat regnum tuum." - "Your kingdom come."

Relata

Relata refero: "I report what has been reported." - Latin rendering of a formulaic phrase from the histories of Herodotus , with which it is stated that one only knows what has been reported through hearsay , not from personal experience.

Rem

Rem acu tetigisti.: "You touched the thing with the needle." - You hit it right. ( Plautus , Rudens, 1306)

Rem involutam emere: "Buy a wrapped thing" - Buy a pig in a poke.

Rem tene, verba sequentur.: "Master the matter, the words will then follow" - quote from the works of the historian, writer and statesman Marcus Porcius Cato .

Remota

Remota itaque iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia?: "Take away the right - what is a state then but a large band of robbers?" - Augustine ( De civitate Dei , IV, 4, 1)

Repetition

Repetitio est mater studiorum.: "Repetition is the mother of studies." - Compare repetition as a learning method .

requiem

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: "Give them eternal rest, oh Lord!" - The Requiem is the celebration of mass for the deceased (also "Missa pro defunctis"). The word describes both the rite of the funeral mass according to the Catholic liturgy and church music compositions for commemorating the dead. The name is derived from the first word of the Introit :; "Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis."; "Lord, give them eternal rest, and the eternal light shine on them."

Requiescat

RIP on a tombstone in the Sebastian Cemetery in Salzburg

Requiescat in pace . (RIP): "Rest in Peace." - Blessing of Death; often on tombstones. Psalm 4, 9 in the Latin Vulgate translation is usually given as the origin of this gravestone inscription :; "In pace in idipsum dormiam et requiescam" .

Rerum

Rerum cognoscere causas: “ Knowing the reasons of things” or “ getting to the bottom of things” - Virgil , Georgica 2,490.; Since 1946 the motto of the Berlin daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel .

Rerum vera vocabula: "The true names of things"

Res

Res accessoria: "Minor matter" - in the legal sense, the matter that is subordinate to another main matter.

Res ad triarios venit.: "The matter comes to the trariars." - Now it is the turn of the most experienced fighters. The Triarians were the elite of the Roman legion . “Now the Triarians have to fight” means that the last reserves have to be mobilized.

Res inter alios acta: “A thing carried out between others” - Roman legal principle, according to which the actions of others neither entitle nor oblige you.

Res ipsa loquitur.: "The thing speaks for itself."

Res iudicata: “A matter that has been judged” - Something that has already been decided in court (and therefore should not be discussed again).

Res non verba: “Actions instead of words” - “Judge a person by his actions rather than his words; because many act badly and speak excellently. ” Matthias Claudius

Res nullius: "Nobody's good" - abandoned good

Res publica: “Public cause” - state, community. The classic definition of Cicero is:; "Est igitur res publica res populi, populus autem non omnis hominum coetus quoquo modo congregatus, sed coetus multitudinis iuris consensu et utilitatis communione sociatus."; "So the community is the cause of the people, but the people is not every association of people that has been thrown together in some way, but the association of a multitude that has joined together on the basis of an agreement of law and a commonality of benefit."; The word republic is derived from this , a form of government which in Latin means libera res publica ( free state ).

Reservation

Mental Reservation: "Thought Reservation" - unspoken internal reservation against an oath

Respice

Respice finem.: “Think about the end.” - Short form of the well-known quote “ Quidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem ”, which in the end goes back to a fable of Aesop .

Giulio Romano - Triumphal procession of Titus and Vespasian (approx. 1540): Here an angel holds the laurel wreaths.

Respice post te, hominem te esse memento.: "Look behind you; remember that you are a man! ”- The early Christian writer Tertullian reports that the state slave who held the laurel wreath over the triumphant's head during triumphal procession had to whisper these words in his ear.

Restat

Restat iter caeli; caelo tentabimus ire.: "The way through heaven remains, in heaven we will try to go (away)." - Daedalus explains the last remaining escape route to his son Icarus . Quote from the works of the poet Ovid .

Rex

Rex datur propter regnum, non regnum propter regem.: "The king is there for the kingdom, not the kingdom for the king."

Rex legibus absolutus est.: “The king is free from the law.” - see Legibus solutus .

Rex regnat, sed non gubernat.: “The king rules, but he does not rule.” - This sentence characterizes a system of government in which the king is the ruler, but the individual rulership is assigned to the ministers, e.g. B. in the time of the civil kingship in France.

Ridendo

Ridendo corrigo mores: "By laughing I am correcting morals"

Ridentem

Ridentem dicere verum: “Laughing to tell the truth” - Horace , satire 1,1,24.; In connection: “ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?” - “To recite the truth with a laugh - what speaks against it?” Horace justifies his kind of satirical poetry, namely to caricature general human misconduct while renouncing personal exposure.; Often quoted in modified form: "ridendo dicere verum": "laughing and telling the truth."

Rideo

Coat of arms of the city of Rome : SPQR

Rideo Quia Papa Sum.

Rigor

Rigor mortis

Rigorosum

Rigorosum: "Das Strenge" - A form of the oral doctoral examination at a university. It is derived from the term “examen rigorosum”.

Risus

Risus augurum: "The laugh / smile of the augurs"; The phrase goes back to Cato the Elder , whose saying Cicero (de divinatione 2,24,51) has handed down:; "Vetus autem illud Catonis admodum scitum est, qui mirari se aiebat, quod non rideret haruspex, haruspicem cum vidisset." "That Dictum Catos is well known, he is surprised that a fortune-telling priest doesn't laugh when he sees another fortune-telling priest."; See also Miror, quod non ridet haruspex, haruspicem qui videt.

Risus Chius: "Chiisches Lachen" - careless and wanton laughter of the inhabitants of the island of Chios , whose customs were not well known in the old comedy.

Risus ionicus: “Ionian Laughter” - laughter of sissies and pleasure addicts in Ionia , a landscape on the west coast of Asia Minor.

Risus megaricus: “Megaric Laughter” - joke speeches by the Greek Megarians who sacrificed a friend rather than a joke.

Risus paschalis: The Easter Laugh - Medieval and early modern custom of the preachers to make the audience laugh after the seriousness of Lent . Reformers and Enlightenmentists fought against it, after all because of too hearty jokes the church itself, so that the custom in the 18th / 19th Century out of practice.

Risus sardonicus

Rixantur

Rixantur de lana caprina.: “They argue about goat wool.” - Argue about something senseless. Compare the German phrase " arguing about the emperor's beard ".

Roma

Roma aeterna: - "Eternal Rome" zurückdekliniert From the genitive in the nominative, from a poem by Tibullus (. Carmen 2,5,23 f):; "Romulus aeternae nondum formaverat urbis moenia." - "Romulus had not yet built the walls of the eternal city (Rome)."; This is the oldest verifiable designation of Rome as the Eternal City .

Roma caput mundi regit orbis frena rotundi: "Rome, the capital of the world, controls the reins of the world" - inscription on many Rome image seals .

Roma locuta, causa finita.: “Rome has spoken, the case is over” - an expression coined within the Roman Catholic Church to underline the finality of a decision. In the writings of the Doctor of the Church Augustine there is the formulation “Iam enim de hac causa duo concilia missa sunt ad Sedem Apostolicam: inde etiam rescripta venerunt.Causa finita est: utinam aliquando finiatur error” (Sermo 131,10 - “In this case already sent two council letters to the Apostolic See. There were even replies from there. The case is closed: may the error finally come to an end! ”), but not the one that was not made until the 18th century. emerged concise formula in which Rome metonymically stands for the highest ecclesiastical authority. This is possibly based on the satirical poem Philotanus, ou l'Histoire de la constitution Unigenitus Jean-Baptiste de Grécourts (1683–1743), in which the French original says: "Rome a parlé, l'affaire est terminée". A Latin version of this poem also appeared in 1747, in which the line in question reads “Roma locuta est, hoc satis” (“Rome has spoken, that is enough”).

Roma uno die non est condita: "Rome was (also) not built in a day." - From: Li Proverbe au Vilain. The common man's proverbs. Approx. 1190.

Romam

Romam cuncta undique atrocia atque pudenda confluunt celebranturque.: "In Rome everything that is terrible and shameful flows together and is celebrated." - Quote from the works of Tacitus .

Romani

The Ribat in Monastir , filming location for the Jerusalem city scenes of “The Life of Brian”.

Romani ite domum.: “Romans, go home!” - In Monty Python's film “ The Life of Brian ” by Brian of Nazareth, written on the walls of the governor's palace one hundred times as a punishment on the orders of a senior centurion after he had written Romanes eunt domus in false Latin ; an allusion to the slogan “ Ami - go home! ".

Romanus

Romanus sedendo vincit.: “The Roman wins when he sits down.” - Varro , Res rusticae, 1,2,2.

Rorate caeli , the Gregorian introit

Rate rate

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Rore

Cicada and dew

Rore vivit sicut cicada.: "He lives on dew like the cicada.": According to the opinion of the ancient world, the cicadas lived on dew.

pink

Rosa de spinis floret.: “A rose blooms between thorns.” - Quotation from the writings of the Doctor of the Church Hieronymus .

Rosa rubicundior: "Redder than the rose" - From the Carmina Burana (20th Veni, veni, venias):

Rosa rubicundior,
lilio candidior,
omnibus formosior,
semper in te glorior.

Redder than the rose,
whiter than the lily,
more beautiful than all,
I always gain fame through you.

Ruinis

"The rats leave the sinking ship" - cartoon of Andrew Jackson's trade policy, 1833

Ruinis imminentibus musculi pre-emigrant.: “If there is a threat of collapse, the mice will be the first to wander away.” - Pliny the Elder , Naturalis Historia 8,103.; Corresponds to the German saying "The rats leave the sinking ship".

Rumores

Rumores fugue.: “Avoid rumors!” - The complete quote from the Disticha Catonis (1.12) reads as follows:; “Rumores fuge, ne incipias novus auctor haberi;
nam nulli tacuisse nocet, nocet esse locutum. "; “Avoid rumors so that you are not mistaken for their inventor;
for it does no harm to have remained silent; it hurts to have spoken. "

Rus

Rus in urbe: “Land in der Stadt” - The Roman poet Martial praises Sparsus for his life in a high-altitude house in a quiet and idyllic setting: he created rus in urbe (Epigrams 12,57,21).

Rustica

Rustica gens semper sequitur sua iura libenter.: “The peasant sex likes to follow its own laws.” Proverb in the form of a hexameter .

Individual evidence

↑ " ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλος ὄρνις ἱρός, τῷ οὔνομα φοῖνιξ [...] σπάνιος ἐπιφοιτᾷ σφι, λέγουσι δι ἐτέων, ὡς Ἡλιοπολῖται, πεντακοσίων · " (There is another sacred bird called the Phoenix [...] he rarely visited her, all 500 Years, as the Heliopolitans say.), Herodotus, Historien , 2,73,1

↑ "posito pavone velis quin // hoc potius quam gallina tergere palatum // corruptus vanis rerum quia veneat auro // rara avis et picta pandat spectacula cauda" (Why would you rather touch your palate with a peacock in front of you than with a chicken? You are misled by the trivial fact that the rare bird is expensive and by the spectacle of how it spreads its brightly colored tail.), Horace, Sermones 2.2, 23-26

^ Exhibition of the University Library Dortmund 2006/07 , accessed on January 29, 2014.

↑ Directory of the estate v. H. Heart. Karl's collection of selected Thaler 1796 belonging to Pfaltzzweybrücken , p. 263. (Google-Books)

↑ Epistulae morales 7.3

↑ http://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/referate/04/vt-vg-03.htm

↑ Johann Balthasar Schupp , 1667, p. 396, online

[1] " ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλος ὄρνις ἱρός, τῷ οὔνομα φοῖνιξ [...] σπάνιος ἐπιφοιτᾷ σφι, λέγουσι δι ἐτέων, ὡς Ἡλιοπολῖται, πεντακοσίων · " (There is another sacred bird called the Phoenix [...] he rarely visited her, all 500 Years, as the Heliopolitans say.), Herodotus, Historien , 2,73,1

[2] "posito pavone velis quin // hoc potius quam gallina tergere palatum // corruptus vanis rerum quia veneat auro // rara avis et picta pandat spectacula cauda" (Why would you rather touch your palate with a peacock in front of you than with a chicken? You are misled by the trivial fact that the rare bird is expensive and by the spectacle of how it spreads its brightly colored tail.), Horace, Sermones 2.2, 23-26

[3] Exhibition of the University Library Dortmund 2006/07 , accessed on January 29, 2014.