Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group E(classical-language maxims, slogans, adages, proverbs, and words of wisdom that can still capture our modern imagination)Expressions of general truths: Latin to English maxims, proverbs, and mottoesAll entries are from Latin unless otherwise indicated.Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
Beings should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
Interpreted to mean that one should choose the simplest explanation for anything. e pluribus unum
One from many; one out of many.
Motto of the United States of America, indicating that a single nation was made by uniting many states or a reference to the many states in the United States as being one nation. It may have been adapted from a line in Virgil's poem, "Moretum" which deals with the making of a salad and reads color est e pluribus unus, probably the first use of the phrase in any form. There was also an essay by Richard Steele in The Spectator, August 20, 1722, which opens with the Latin phrase Exempta juvat spiris e pluribus unus: "Better one thorn plucked than all remain." The Continental Congress ordered the President of Congress to construct a seal in 1776 and E Pluribus Unum appeared on the first seal, as well as on many early coins. Congress adopted the motto in 1781 and it still appears on U.S. coins as well as on the Great Seal of the United States. "Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when the delegates might have been expected to occupy themselves with more pressing concerns—like how they were going to win the war and escape hanging—Congress quite extraordinarily found time to debate the business of a motto for the new nation. (Their choice, E Pluribus Unum, ‘One from Many,' was taken from, of all places, a recipe for salad in an early poem by Virgil.)" The translated poem, "Moretum", attributed to Virgil, lines 101-106
The right hand first mashes the fragrant garlic with a pestle,
Then grinds everything equally in a juicy mixture. The hand goes in circles: gradually the separate essences Lose distinction, the color is out of many one [e pluribus unus], Neither all green, since milky-white bits resist it, Nor shining milky white, since the herbs are so various. Virgil used unus because "color" is masculine in Latin; we use the neuter form unum because the United States is considered neuter (neither masculine nor feminine). Thomas Jefferson is given credit for having suggested E pluribus unum, which was at that time integrated into the first version of the Great Seal in 1776 and has remained there ever since. ergo
Therefore, hence.
"He was caught with the smoking gun, ergo he is the killer." Errare humanum est.
To err is human.
Another version is Errare est humanum. It was Alexander Pope, who wrote in his An Essay on Criticism that "To err is human, to forgive, divine." errata (pl)
Errors in printing or writing; especially, such errors noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book; mistakes or errors.
Placed in a published book to point out errors which were discovered after it was printed. Also corrigenda. erratum (s)
A mistake or error in printing or writing; especially, one noted on a list that is included with a printed book.
Eruditio, ductus, societas.
Learning, leadership, fellowship.
Motto of Indian River Community College, Ft. Pierce, Florida, USA. Eruditio et meritum pro omnibus.
Learning and benefit for all.
Motto of Isothermal Community College, Spindale, North Carolina, USA. Esse quam videri.
To be rather than to seem.
Also translated, "To be rather than to seem to be." State motto of North Carolina, USA; and a motto of the National College of Chiropractic, Lombard, Illinois, USA. Esto.
Be it so.
Esto bonus et pius ne sit leo te magis impavidus.
Be good and pious, let not the lion be more undaunted than thou.
Esto fidelis usque ad finem.
Be faithful even to the end.
Esto fidelis usque ad mortem.
Be faithful unto death.
Esto memor.
Be mindful.
Esto miles fidelis.
Be thou a faithful soldier.
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