LESSON 6 - Comparative adjectives, subjunctive, General chart of conjugations Tenses
Noun 1: regula, gloria, fortuna, scholae, vitae
Noun 2: populi
Noun 3: canis, homines, humanitatem, emptor, salus, lex, nihil
Personal Pronoun: se, te
Emphatic Pronoun: ipsum
Adjective 1,2: timidus, miserum, solus, suprema
Preposition: inter
Verb 1 : latrat, putes, impera
Verb 2 : mordet, caveat
Verb 3 : edam, vivo, vivam, edo, colamus, metuant, nosce,
divide
Irregular verb : est, sumus, esset, esto
Defective verb : oderint
Adverb: vehementius, non, minus, solum, quam, numquam
Conjunction: ut,sed,nisi, cum, dum, et
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Maxim 41-50 (simple verb)
Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.
A timid dog barks more violently than it bites.
(Curtius Rufus)
Non ut edam vivo, sed vivam edo.
I do not live to eat, but eat to live.
(Quintilianus, Instituitio oratoria)
Nihil est miserum nisi cum putes.
Nothing is unfortunate if you don't consider it unfortunate.
(Boethius, De consolatione philosohiae)
Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem.
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
(Seneca, De ira)
Caveat emptor.
Let the buyer beware.
(N/A)
Numquam se minus solum quam cum solus esset.
You are never so little alone as when you are alone.
(Cicero, De officiis)
Oderint, dum metuant.
May they hate me, if only they fear me.
(Suetonius, Vitae Caesarum, Caligula)
Nosce te ipsum.
Know thyself
(Inscription at the temple of Apollo in Delphi.)
Divide et impera.
Divide and rule.
(Louis XI; adopted by Macchiavelli)
Salus populi suprema lex esto.
Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.
(Cicero, De legibus