Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group P(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.post scriptum; PS, P.S.
A post script; written afterward.
Anything that is written [added] after the main message of a letter; an afterthought. Praesis ut prosis.
Lead that you may serve.
Motto of Lancaster School, U.K. Praestatur laus virtuti, sed multo ocius verno gelu tabescit.
Praise is bestowed on virtue but vanishes more quickly than frost in spring.
precocious
1. Developed more than is usual at a certain age.
2. Before cooking or before being cooked. 3. Premature; development of mind and/or body before one's age. 4. Relating to or having flowers that blossom before the leaves emerge. Some species of magnolias are precocious. prima facie
1. First face.
2. At first consideration before there has been time for inquiry or examination; at first glance; apparent; self-evident. 3. On the face of it; so far as can be judged from the first disclosure; a fact presumed to be true unless disproved by some evidence to the contrary. Primum vir esto.
First, be a man.
Motto of Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, USA. Primus inter pares.
First among equals.
Motto of Columbus College, Columbus, Georgia, USA. Pro aris, Pro focis.
For the altar, For the hearth.
Also "For the altar (church or religion), For the hearth (home). Probitas laudatur et alget. Criminibus debent hortos praetoria mensas, argentum vetus et stantem extra pocula caprum.
Honesty is praised and left out in the cold. Gardens, palaces, rich tables, old silver, and those embossed goats on the cups; men owe these to their crimes.
From Decimus Iunius (Junius) Iuvenalis (Juvenalis) (c. A.D. 60-117); Saturae, I, 74; who attacked the vices of the plutocrats, the wickedness and immorality of women and foreigners (particularly Greeks), and laments the decline of the ancient aristocratic virtues. Pro bono humani generis.
For the good of humankind [mankind].
Motto of The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA. pro bono publico
For the public good.
The full phrase for the expression of pro bono in English. There are some attorneys who devote a portion of their working time to legal cases in which they represent the poor or seek redress for public grievances, and a necessary condition of true pro bono work requires forgoing one's customary professional fees. Pro Christo et humanitate.
For Christ and humanity.
Motto of Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan, USA. Pro Christo et patria.
For Christ and country.
Motto of Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA. Pro Christo et Republica.
For Christ and the Republic.
Motto of Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. procurator bibliothecarum
Director of libraries.
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