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Horace Vocab
| Latin | English |
|---|---|
| acri militia | In sharp military service |
| angustam amice pauperiem pati | To suffer amicably narrow poverty |
| aquilo impotens | The unrestrained North Wind |
| arbito popularis aurae | With the judgment of the popular breeze |
| Cereris sacrum arcanae | the sacred [rites] of secret Ceres |
| cruenta ira | bloody anger |
| dulce et decorum est | it is sweet and right |
| eques metuendus hasta | As a horseman being dreaded with his spear |
| est et tua merces | There is also a safe reward |
| exegi monumentum aere perennius | I have put out a monument more lasting than bronze |
| fideli silentio | for loyalty in silence |
| fuga temporum | the flight of time |
| fugiente penna | with a fleeting feather |
| imber edax | the consuming rain |
| inmeritis mori | to those undeserving to die |
| intaminatis fulget honoribus | it shines with untainted honors |
| iuventae timidoque tergo | the timid back of youth |
| mihi lauro cinge volens comam | willing encircle my hair with a laurel |
| mors et fugacem persequitur virum | death even follows the fleeing man |
| multaque pars mei vitabit | and much a part of me will avoid |
| nec parcit imbellis poplitibus | nor does it spare the unwarlike knees |
| nec sumit aut ponit | nor does she take up or put down |
| negata via | with the way having been denied |
| non omnis moriar | I will not wholly die |
| Parthos ferocis vexet | let him annoy the fierce Parthians |
| per medias rapit caedes | snatches through the middle of the killing |
| possit diruere | may be able to ransack |
| postera laude | with following praise |
| pro patria mori | to die for one’s country |
| puer condiscat | let the boy learn thoroughly |
| recludens caelum | revealing the sky |
| regalique situ pyramidum altius | and higher than the royal site of the pyramids |
| repulsae nescia sordidae | unknowing of dirty repulsion |
| sub divo | under the open air |
| sume | take up |
| superbiam quaesitam | the pride having been sought |
| temptat iter | she attempts the journey |
| trepidis in rebus | in alarming things |
| udam spernit humum | she spurns the wet ground |
| usque ego crescam recens | straight on I recent may increase |
| vetabo | I will deny |
| vitamque agat | and let him live a life |