These notes are used primarily as translation points for the various latin words and phrases which have been misappropriated throughout the text. Any superscripted roman numeral should direct here for your edification.
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i | Memento Mori |
Remember you will die |
ii | Vivere aut mori |
Live or die |
iii | Per angusta ad augusta |
Through difficulties to honors |
iv | Pulvis et umbra sumus |
We are dust and shadows |
v | Corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur |
Bodies grow slowly and die quickly |
vi | Transit umbra, lux permanet |
Shadow passes, light remains |
vii | Tempus edax rerums |
Time devours all things |
viii | Mors cum terrore novo venit |
Death has come with a new terror |
ix | Quod me nutrit me destruit |
What nourishes me destroys me |
x | Homines libenter quod volunt credunt |
Men freely believe what they want to |
xi | In illo tempore |
In the time |
xii | Damnatio memoriae |
Damnation of memory |
xiii | Libera te ex inferis |
Save yourself from Hell |
xiv | Nascentes morimur |
From the moment we are born we begin to die |
xv | Tempus neminem manet |
Time waits for no one |
xvi | Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt |
The fates lead the willing and drag the unwilling |
xvii | Capax infiniti |
Holding the infinite |
xviii | Neutiquam erro |
I am not lost |
xix | Cogito ergo sum |
I think, therefore I am |
xx | Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc |
We gladly feast on those who would subdue us |
xxi | Sub finem |
Toward the end |
xxii | Fiat iustitia et pereat mundu |
Let justice be done, though the world shall perish |
xxiii | Laudator temporis acti |
Praiser of time past |
xxiv | Fui quod es, eris quod sum |
I once was what you are, you will be what I am |
xxv | Mors vincit omnia |
Death conquers all |
xxvi | Morte magis metuenda senectus |
Old age should rather be feared than death |
xxvii | Contra vim mortis non crescit herba in hortis |
No herb grows in the garden against the power of death |
xxviii | Vita ante acta |
A life done before |
xxix | Caetera desunt |
The rest is missing |
xxx | Tibi gratias ago pro vocantes |
Thank you for calling |
xxxi | Divisus personalitatem |
Split personality |
xxxii | Suspendium inopinatum |
Unexpected hanging |
xxxiii | Fabulosa veritas |
Mythical truth |
xxxiv | Stultus cattus |
Stupid cat |
xxxv | Quoque mane vigilant |
Awake too early |
xxxvi | Tempore fuge |
Times fly |
xxxvii | Dulcis somniabunt |
Sweet dreams |
xxxviii | Verte super mortuum hominem |
Turn me on, dead man |
xxxix | Simplices tortam fatum |
Simple twist of fate |
xl | Benedictus finalitatus |
Blessed finality |
xli | Bestias maris |
Beasts of the sea |
xlii | Respice adspice prospice |
Look behind, look here, look ahead |
xliii | Cupio dissolvi |
Desire to be dissolved |
xliv | Cadavera vero innumrera |
Truly countless bodies |
xlv | Reductio ad absurdum |
Leading back to the absurd |
xlvi | Finis |
The end |