507 Quotes About Latin

Pro medicina est dolor, dolorem qui necat.” “The pain that kills pain acts as medicine,” Win translated. “That would make sense only to a Roma,” Amelia said, and Cam grinned.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

If there's a password needed at the gates of heaven, only Latin will unlock it, he thinks.

Sometimes they accuse her in Latin and she looks at them, baffled by a language that she has only ever heard spoken in church, in the Mass that she loves. How could these very sounds, these familiar beloved tones, so solemn and musical to her, now be the voice of accusation ?

The most satisfying of languages, Latin.

What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm. It means, as its heart, to embrace. It was a hug. A hug good-bye.

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.