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Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico care oportere

Answer 1

I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law ## Footnote Julius Caesar, after his divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC

Answer 2

A lover of pure speech ## Footnote Julius Caesar, about Terence

Answer 3

I came, I saw, I conquered ## Footnote Julius Caesar, after the battle of Zela in 47 BC

Answer 4

If only the Roman people had one neck! ## Footnote Caligula

Answer 5

Carthage must be destroyed ## Footnote Cato the Elder, at the end of every speech

Answer 6

A good man, skilled in speaking ## Footnote Cato the Elder, defining an orator

Answer 7

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? ## Footnote Catullus

Answer 8

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love ## Footnote Catullus

Answer 9

Most eloquent of the descendants of Romulus (to Cicero) ## Footnote Catullus

Answer 10

Brother, hello and good-bye ## Footnote Catullus

Answer 11

He seems to me to be equal to a god ## Footnote Catullus

Answer 12

I hate and I love ## Footnote Catullus

Answer 13

There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh ## Footnote Catullus

Answer 14

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love ## Footnote Catullus

Answer 15

He gives twice who quickly gives ## Footnote Miguel Cervantes, in his *Don Quixote*

Answer 16

Say nothing but good about the dead ## Footnote Chilon

Answer 17

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 18

The popular breeze ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 19

An agreement of rash men ## Footnote Cicero, referring to a conspiracy

Answer 20

For whose benefit is it? ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 21

When they remain silent, they cry out ## Footnote Cicero, in his *In Catilinam I*

Answer 22

He was stirring up billows in a ladle ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 23

From the moment ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 24

Inhumanity is harmful in every age ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 25

There are many degrees in excellence ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 26

We are slaves of the law so that we may be able to be free ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 27

Romulus was not a king of barbarians, was he? ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 28

An excellent protector of sheep, the wolf! ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 29

Oh, the times! Oh, the morals! ## Footnote Cicero, in his *In Catilinam I*

Answer 30

The fatherland is the common parent of us all ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 31

Himself loving himself so much- without a rival! ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 32

How long will you abuse our patience, Catiline? ## Footnote Cicero, in his *In Catilinam I*

Answer 33

Often it is not even advantageous to know what will be ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 34

The safety of the people is the supreme law ## Footnote Cicero (also the motto of Missouri)

Answer 35

How like us is that very ugly beast, the monkey ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 36

As if a second self ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 37

Delay and procrastination is hateful ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 38

We are all drawn by our eagerness for praise ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 39

As you sow so will you reap ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 40

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? ## Footnote Cicero

Answer 41

They have lived (They are dead) ## Footnote Cicero, talking about the dead Catilinarian conspirators

Answer 42

A timid dog barks more violently than it bites ## Footnote Curtius Rufus

Answer 43

Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies ## Footnote Curtius Rufus

Answer 44

When a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears ## Footnote Dionysius Cato

Answer 45

But the trumpet sounded with its terrible taratantara ## Footnote Ennius

Answer 46

On ancient ways and heroes stands the Roman state ## Footnote Ennius

Answer 47

Oh, you tyrant, Titus Tatius! You took such great things for yourself! ## Footnote Ennius, famous for his alliteration

Answer 48

Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war ## Footnote Erasmus, in his *Querela Pacis*

Answer 49

I don't want to be Caesar ## Footnote Florus

Answer 50

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher ## Footnote Gellius

Answer 51

Art is long, life is short ## Footnote Hippocrates

Answer 52

From the egg right to the apples (From start to finish) ## Footnote Horace

Answer 53

Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times ## Footnote Horace

Answer 54

Joking aside, let us turn to serious matters ## Footnote Horace

Answer 55

Golden mean ## Footnote Horace

Answer 56

The fellow is either mad or he is composing verses ## Footnote Horace, in his *Satires*

Answer 57

Wars, the horror of mothers ## Footnote Horace

Answer 58

The things that please are those that are asked for again and again ## Footnote Horace

Answer 59

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea ## Footnote Horace, in his *Epistulae*

Answer 60

Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow ## Footnote Horace, in his *Odes*

Answer 61

In the consulship of Plancus (In the good old days) ## Footnote Horace

Answer 62

In the presence of the people ## Footnote Horace

Answer 63

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion ## Footnote Horace

Answer 64

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn ## Footnote Horace

Answer 65

Limbs of a dismembered poet ## Footnote Horace

Answer 66

It is sweet to relax at the proper time ## Footnote Horace

Answer 67

It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country ## Footnote Horace, in his *Odes*

Answer 68

Alas, the fleeting years slip by ## Footnote Horace, in his *Odes*

Answer 69

There is a middle ground in things ## Footnote Horace, in his *Odes*

Answer 70

I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze ## Footnote Horace

Answer 71

The same man will be loved when he is dead ## Footnote Horace, in his *Epistulae*

Answer 72

Keep quiet ## Footnote Horace, in his *Odes*

Answer 73

The irritable race of poets ## Footnote Horace, in his *Epistulae*

Answer 74

Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors ## Footnote Horace, the first line of his *Odes*

Answer 75

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word ## Footnote Horace

Answer 76

Don't despair ## Footnote Horace

Answer 77

Not all of me will die ## Footnote Horace

Answer 78

Now we must drink ## Footnote Horace

Answer 79

Pale Death ## Footnote Horace, in his *Odes*

Answer 80

What are you laughing at? Just change the name and the joke's on you ## Footnote Horace

Answer 81

What forbids a laughing man from telling the truth? ## Footnote Horace

Answer 82

He who feared he would not succeed sat still ## Footnote Horace

Answer 83

Unaffected by manners ## Footnote Horace

Answer 84

Splendidly false ## Footnote Horace

Answer 85

Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight ## Footnote Horace

Answer 86

One must avoid that wicked temptress Laziness ## Footnote Horace, in his *Satires*

Answer 87

An incurable passion to write ## Footnote Juvenal, in his Satires

Answer 88

The greatest respect is owed to a child ## Footnote Juvenal

Answer 89

A sound mind in a sound body ## Footnote Juvenal

Answer 90

No bad man is lucky ## Footnote Juvenal

Answer 91

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step ## Footnote Juvenal, in his Satires

Answer 92

Bread and circuses ## Footnote Juvenal

Answer 93

Honesty is praised and left in the cold ## Footnote Juvenal, in his Satires

Answer 94

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan ## Footnote Juvenal, in his Satires

Answer 95

But who will guard the guardians themselves? ## Footnote Juvenal, in his Satires

Answer 96

He must fear many, whom many fear ## Footnote Laberius, referring to Julius Caesar

Answer 97

Tell me, O Muse, of the skillful man ## Footnote Livius Andronicus, the first line of his Odussia

Answer 98

Envy is blind ## Footnote Livy

Answer 99

The situation has come down to the triarii ## Footnote Livy

Answer 100

Don't consider that anything has been done if anything is left to be done ## Footnote Lucan

Answer 101

Ah, human cares! Ah, how much futility in the world! ## Footnote Lucilius

Answer 102

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods ## Footnote Lucretius, the first line of his *De Rerum Natura*

Answer 103

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds ## Footnote Lucretius, in his *De Rerum Natura*

Answer 104

Nothing comes from nothing ## Footnote Lucretius (I've heard this before, but couldn't find the source)

Answer 105

Practice has brought skill through different exercises ## Footnote Manilius

Answer 106

By the fate of Metellus in Rome ## Footnote

Answer 107

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds ## Footnote Lucretius, in his *De Rerum Natura*

Answer 108

Nothing comes from nothing ## Footnote Lucretius

Answer 109

Practice has brought skill through different exercises ## Footnote Manilius

Answer 110

The Metelli become consuls of Rome by fate ## Footnote Gnaeus Naevius

Answer 111

You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart ## Footnote Gnaeus Naevius, referring to the Muses in the first line of his *Bellum Poenicum*

Answer 112

What an artist I die! ## Footnote Nero

Answer 113

A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 114

To feed the flames ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 115

Love, and a cough, are not concealed ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 116

It is art to conceal art ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 117

He who has lived in obscurity has lived well ## Footnote Ovid, in his *Tristia*

Answer 118

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone ## Footnote Ovid, in his *Tristia*

Answer 119

Dripping hollows out rock ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 120

Greatest in genius, rough in skill ## Footnote (said of Ennius) Ovid

Answer 121

A burden which is done well becomes light ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 122

The workmanship surpassed the subject matter ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 123

Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 124

Everything which I said could not happen will happen now ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 125

Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 126

He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 127

Fools laugh at the Latin language ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 128

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses ## Footnote Ovid

Answer 129

Nothing can be produced from nothing; nothing can be returned into nothing ## Footnote Persius, in his *Satires*

Answer 130

Let him love tomorrow who has never loved and let he who has loved love tomorrow ## Footnote Found in the *Pervigilium Veneris* of unknown authorship

Answer 131

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me ## Footnote Petrarch

Answer 132

What the gods want happens soon ## Footnote Petronius

Answer 133

You see a louse on someone else, but not a tick on yourself ## Footnote Petronius

Answer 134

Flame follows smoke ## Footnote Plautus, in his *Curculio*

Answer 135

A mouse does not rely on just one hole ## Footnote Plautus

Answer 136

Thunderbolts that strike blindly and in vain ## Footnote Pliny the Elder, in his *Naturalis Historia*

Answer 137

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it ## Footnote Pliny the Younger

Answer 138

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part ## Footnote Pliny the Younger

Answer 139

I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love ## Footnote Propertius, in his elegies

Answer 140

Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth ## Footnote Propertius, referencing Vergil's *Aeneid*

Answer 141

A liar must have a good memory ## Footnote Quintilian

Answer 142

Satire is wholly ours ## Footnote Quintilian

Answer 143

He (Cato) preferred to be good rather than seem good ## Footnote Sallust, in his *Bellum Catilinae*

Answer 144

Some laws are unwritten, but they are better established than all written ones ## Footnote Seneca the Elder

Answer 145

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 146

It is not goodness to be better than the worst ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 147

A giant will keep his size even though he will have stood in a well ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 148

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless ## Footnote Seneca the Younger, in his *Phaedra*

Answer 149

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 150

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 151

The appearances of things are deceptive ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 152

The gladiator is making his plan in the arena (i.e. too late) ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 153

Devoted to the tradition of his ancestors ## Footnote Seneca the Younger, referencing his father

Answer 154

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars ## Footnote Seneca the Younger, in his *Hercules Furens*

Answer 155

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 156

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness ## Footnote Seneca the Younger, in his *De tranquillitate animi*

Answer 157

No era is closed to great intellects ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 158

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man ## Footnote Seneca the Younger, in his *Epistulae morales*

Answer 159

A great man can come from a hut ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 160

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 161

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 162

Ignorance is the cause of fear ## Footnote Seneca the Younger

Answer 163

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people ## Footnote Publilius Syrus

Answer 164

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time ## Footnote Publilius Syrus

Answer 165

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom ## Footnote Publilius Syrus

Answer 166

Even one hair has a shadow ## Footnote Publilius Syrus

Answer 167

It is a bad plan that cannot be changed ## Footnote Publilius Syrus

Answer 168

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid ## Footnote Publilius Syrus

Answer 169

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure ## Footnote Tacitus, in his *Agricola*

Answer 170

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled ## Footnote Tacitus, talking about Galba in his *Annales*

Answer 171

When they make a desolation, they call it peace ## Footnote Tacitus, in his *Agricola*

Answer 172

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love ## Footnote Terence, in his *Andria*

Answer 173

A word to the wise is sufficient ## Footnote Terence

Answer 174

Fortune helps the brave ## Footnote Terence

Answer 175

I am a man; I think nothing human is alien to me ## Footnote Terence, in his *Heauton Timorumenos*

Answer 176

Nothing is already said which wasn't said before ## Footnote Terence, in his *Eunuchus*

Answer 177

So many men, so many thoughts ## Footnote Terence, in his *Phormio*

Answer 178

Old age itself is a disease ## Footnote Terence, in his *Phormio*

Answer 179

Their silence is enough praise ## Footnote Terence

Answer 180

It is certain because it is impossible ## Footnote Tertullian

Answer 181

Friends, I have lost a day ## Footnote Titus

Answer 182

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities ## Footnote Varro, in his *De re rustica*

Answer 183

Not all who own a lyre are lyre-players ## Footnote Varro

Answer 184

If you want peace, prepare for war ## Footnote Vegetius, in his *Epitoma rei militaris*

Answer 185

Alas, I think I am becoming a god ## Footnote Vespasian

Answer 186

Learn all from one thing ## Footnote Virgil

Answer 187

He has smiled on our undertakings ## Footnote Virgil

Answer 188

Arcadians both ## Footnote Virgil

Answer 189

I sing of arms and a man ## Footnote Virgil, first line of his *Aeneid*

Answer 190

Fortune smiles upon our first effort ## Footnote Virgil

Answer 191

The cursed hunger for gold ## Footnote Virgil

Answer 192

Wars, horrid wars ## Footnote Virgil

Answer 193

God will even grant an end to these [troubles] ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 194

It seemed otherwise to the gods ## Footnote Virgil

Answer 195

The leader of the deed was a woman ## Footnote Virgil

Answer 196

One out of many ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Moretum*

Answer 197

Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 198

Trust the expert ## Footnote Virgil

Answer 199

Easy is the descent to Avernus (The Underworld) ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 200

Rumor flies ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 201

The Fates oppose ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 202

The Fates will find a way ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 203

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things ## Footnote Virgil, talking about Lucretius in his *Georgics*

Answer 204

Faithful Achates ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 205

Perhaps one day it will be pleasant to remember even these things ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 206

A snake lies hidden in the grass ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Eclogues*

Answer 207

Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes ## Footnote Virgil's Epitaph

Answer 208

Love conquers all, and let us yield to it ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Eclogues*

Answer 209

Of which I was a great part ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 210

Sicilian Muses, let us sing of slightly grander things ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Eclogues*

Answer 211

So great a task it was to found the Roman race ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 212

You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power ## Footnote Virgil, in his *Aeneid*

Answer 213

An itch for disputation is the mange of the churches ## Footnote Sir Henry Wotton

Answer 214

If you seek a monument, look around ## Footnote Sir Christopher Wren's Epitaph in St. Paul's Cathedral

Answer 215

Sir Christopher Wren was an English architect, astronomer, and mathematician, best known for designing St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

Answer 216

St. Paul's Cathedral is an iconic church in London, known for its impressive dome and as a symbol of resilience during the Great Fire of London and World War II.

Answer 217

An epitaph is a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, often inscribed on a tombstone.

Answer 218

Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph can be found in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Answer 219

The purpose of an epitaph is to honor and remember the deceased, often reflecting their life or contributions.

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