Part 6

Question 1

Vis consili expers mole ruit sua

Answer 1

Horace

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

Question 2

Est modus in rebus

Answer 2

Horace

in his Odes

There is a middle ground in things

Question 3

Militat omnis amans et habet sua castra Cupido

Answer 3

Ovid

Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid

Question 4

Disiecti membra poetae

Answer 4

Horace

Limbs of a dismembered poet

Question 5

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Answer 5

Seneca the Younger

in his De tranquillitate animi

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness

Question 6

Probitas laudatur et alget

Answer 6

Juvenal

in his Satires

Honesty is praised and left in the cold

Question 7

Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem

Answer 7

Horace

Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times

Question 8

Ut sementem feceris ita metes

Answer 8

Cicero

As you sow so will you reap

Question 9

Splendide mendax

Answer 9

Horace

Splendidly false

Question 10

Genus irritabile vatum

Answer 10

Horace

in his Epistulae

The irritable race of poets

Question 11

Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent

Answer 11

Seneca the Younger

in his Phaedra

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless

Question 12

Omnia iam fient fieri quae posse negabam

Answer 12

Ovid

Everything which I said could not happen will happen now

Question 13

Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

Answer 13

Ovid

in his Tristia

As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone

Question 14

Simia quam similis, turpissimus bestia, nobis!

Answer 14

Cicero

How like us is that very ugly beast, the monkey

Question 15

Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

Answer 15

Seneca the Younger

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole

Question 16

O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum!

Answer 16

Cicero

An excellent protector of sheep, the wolf!

Question 17

Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Answer 17

Publilius Syrus

To accept a favor is to sell one’s freedom

Question 18

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum

Answer 18

Lucretius

in his De Rerum Natura

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds

Question 19

Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet

Answer 19

Horace

He who feared he would not succeed sat still

Question 20

Leve fit, quod bene fertur, onus

Answer 20

Ovid

A burden which is done well becomes light

Question 21

Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit

Answer 21

Horace

in his Satires

The fellow is either mad or he is composing verses

Question 22

Consensus audacium

Answer 22

Cicero

referring to a conspiracy

An agreement of rash men

Question 23

Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem

Answer 23

Seneca the Younger

It is not goodness to be better than the worst

Question 24

Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clausum est

Answer 24

Seneca the Younger

No era is closed to great intellects

Question 25

**Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento**

Answer 25

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

Question 26

**Senectus ipsast morbus**

Answer 26

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

Question 27

**Amoto quaeramus seria ludo**

Answer 27

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

Question 28

**Negotium populo Romano melius quam otium committi**

Answer 28

Appius Claudius ## Footnote The Roman people understand work better than leisure

Question 29

**Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit**

Answer 29

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

Question 30

**Patria est communis omnium parens**

Answer 30

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

Question 31

**Latet anguis in herba**

Answer 31

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

Question 32

**Coram populo**

Answer 32

Horace ## Footnote In the presence of the people

Question 33

**Excitabat fluctus in simpulo**

Answer 33

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

Question 34

**Arcades ambo**

Answer 34

Virgil ## Footnote Arcadians both

Question 35

**Malum consilium quod mutari non potest**

Answer 35

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

Question 36

**In virtute sunt multi ascensus**

Answer 36

Cicero ## Footnote There are many degrees in excellence

Question 37

**Si monumentum requiris circumspice**

Answer 37

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

Question 38

**Extinctus amabitur idem**

Answer 38

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

Question 39

**Tarditas et procrastinatio odiosa est**

Answer 39

Cicero ## Footnote Delay and procrastination is hateful

Question 40

**Amantium irae amoris integratio'st**

Answer 40

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

Question 41

**Maiorum consuetudini deditus**

Answer 41

Seneca the Younger | referrencing his father ## Footnote Devoted to the tradition of his ancestors

Question 42

**Disputandi pruritas ecclesiarum scabies**

Answer 42

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

Question 43

**Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter**

Answer 43

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