Maxioms by Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenal)
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of
Latin.
[Lat., Omnia Graece!
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Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of
Latin.
[Lat., Omnia Graece!
Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.]
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
[Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
[Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous
to the author of the crime. This is the read more
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous
to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of
guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat
of his own conscience.
[Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi
Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se
Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin,
Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin,
Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
