Maxioms by Ovid (publius Ovidius Naso)
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
[Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
[Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
[Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
[Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]
Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.
Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
[Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur,
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.]
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
[Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
[Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]
