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Group 52: Latin

 

689. Timor mortis morte peior.

690. Melior est canis vivus leone mortuo.

691. Certa pax melior incerta victoria.

692. Providentia est melior paenitentia.

693. Nummis potior amicus in periculis.

694. Patriae fumus igni alieno luculentior.

695. Est foculus proprius multo pretiosior auro.

696. Bona opinio hominum tutior pecunia est.

697. Liber inops servo divite felicior.

698. Cupiditas pecuniarum omni tyranno gravior.

699. Lingua mala acutior cuspide gladii.

700. Falsi testes peiores sunt latronibus.

701. Multi discipuli praestantiores magistris.

 

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689. The fear of death is worse than death. (Notice the nice juxtposition of mortis / morte in the Latin, which is simply not possible in English word order.)

 

690. A living dog is better than a dead lion. (You can find this saying in the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes.)

 

691. Certain peace is better than uncertain victory. (Compare a similar saying, Melior est certa pax quam sperata victoria, "a certain peace is better than a hoped for victory," a saying you will find in Livy.)

 

692. Forethought is better than regret. (You will also frequently find the Latin word paenitentia spelled poenitentia in medieval texts.)

 

693. In times of danger, a friend is preferable to money. (This proverb can be found in a long list of sayings about friendship in Boissard's emblem book of 1593. You can read a brief essay about this proverb at the AudioLatinProverbs.com blog.)

 

694. The smoke of the fatherland is brighter than a foreign fire. (This saying made its way into Erasmus's Adagia, 1.2.16.)

 

695. Your own little fireplace is more precious than lots of gold. (The word foculus is a diminutive of the word focus, meaning "fireplace, hearth," which used to be the "focus" of the house (via French, the Latin focus ultimately gives us the word "foyer.")

 

696. People's good reputation is more dependable than money. (This is a saying attributed to Publilius Syrus.)

 

697. A free man without resources is more fortunate than a rich servant. (Notice that this is the Latin adjective, liber, meaning "a free person," not to be confused with liber meaning book.)

 

698. Desire for money is more oppressive than any tyrant. (Notice the use of the subjective genitive with cupiditas, "desire for money," cupiditas pecuniarum.)

 

699. A wicked tongue is sharper than the point of a sword. (Compare a similar saying, Multo quam ferrum lingua atrocior ferit, "How much more savagely does the tongue wound than does the sword's steel!")

 

700. False witnesses are worse than thieves. (This is a saying from the Roman juridical tradition.)

 

701. Many students are more excellent than their teachers. (This is a saying found in Erasmus's Adagia 3.5.23, citing the letters of Cicero.)

 


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