paremiología

LATIN ENGLISH

si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi

if you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself (Horace)

alteri sic tibi

do to another as to yourself

Amicule, deliciae, num is sum qui mentiar tibi?

Baby, sweetheart, would I lie to you?

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem

In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags

Arguit, arguito: quicquid probat ilia, probato: Quod dicet, dicas: quod negat ilia, neges. Riserit,
arride: si flebit, flere memento; Imponat leges vultibus ilia tuis

To a lover. Blame, if she blames; but if she praises, praise. What she denies, deny; say what she
says. Laugh, if she smiles; but if she weeps, then weep, And let your looks with hers their motions
keep. --- Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]

casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus. Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit

there is scope for chance everywhere; let your hook be always ready. In the eddies where you least
expect it, there will be a fish (Ovid)

cum dubia et fragilis sit nobis vita tributa, in morte alterius spem tu tibi ponere noli
since we have received a precarious and frail life, beware of placing your hopes in the death of
others (Cato)

Cuncta tibi rerum precor optima, compos et eius Optati deciens inde beatus ego

But do not so, I love thee in such sort, As thou being mine, mine is thy good report. --- William
Shakespeare

dicta tibi est lex

the law is laid before you (Horace)

donec gratus eram tibi

in the days when I was dear to you (Horace)

elige eum cujus tibi placuit et vita et oratio

choose the one who recommends himself to you by his life as well as by his speech (Seneca)

est animus tibi rerumque prudens, et secundis temporibus dubiisque rectus

you possess a mind both sagacious in the management of affairs and steady at once in prosperous
times (Horace)

est animus tibi, sunt mores et lingua, fidesque

you have a man’s soul, good manners and powers of speech, and fidelity (Horace, said of a
gentleman)

est quædam flere voluptas; expletur lacrymis egeriturque dolor

there is a certain pleasure in weeping; pain is soothed and alleviated by tears (Ovid)

Est vere amor quod tibi opus est

All you need is love. --- John Lennon

Estne tibi forte magna feles fulva et planissima?

Do you by chance happen to own a large, yellowish, very flat cat?

Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?

Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?

esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi, pauper amicis

be, as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to your friends (Juvenal)

et genus et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, vix ea nostra voco

we can scarcely call birth and ancestry, and what we have not ourselves done, our own

exemplo quodcunque malo committitur, ipsi displicet auctori

whatever is committed from a bad example is displeasing even to its author (i.e., we hate the faults
in others that we see in ourselves) (Juvenal)

necesse est enim nimium tribuat sibi, que se nemini comparat.

Es necesario que se tenga por grande al hombre que no se compara con nadie.