What are your favorite Latin phrases or just phrases in general?
omg this is a cool question, let me try to recall some of my favs:
per adua ad astra, and all it’s variations (per aspera ad astra, sic itur ad astra, and so on). they’re all various ways of saying “through hardship, you will go the stars”. Idk, ever since I first learned the phrase, it’s always stuck with me as one of the most beautiful expressions.
Veni, vidi, vici- I came, I saw, I conquered. It sounds imposing and powerful and like something i’d have tattoed on myself if i was a battle-scarred warrioress.
semper ad meliora- always towards better things. I like it simply because a) it sounds nice to say (which is a common factor for all my favorite phrases, tbh) and b) it’s inspirational, as cheesy as that seems.
Auribus Teneo Lupum- “I hold the wolf by the ears,” this one is actually an ancient proverb.
bellum se ipsum alet- “war feeds itself”
capax infiniti- “holding infinity”
luctor et emergo- “I struggle and emerge”
dum vivimus, vivamus- “while we live, let us live”
“ita vero” is a phrase I always wish I could have courage to throw out in casual conversation, since it just means “thus indeed” and it’d be hella eloquent to use it while trying to sound smart.
lux aeterna- “eternal light”
nec aspera terrent- “they do not fear the difficulties”
"I had been working for some months before I succeeded in perfecting the formula: a few crystals of sodium, not potassium, chloride, and a quantity of glacial acetic acid proving to be the correct combination. Pyridine I had tried, of course, instead of the acetic acid, but it was less reliable, and only the most reliable of tests would do for me. It was important, too, that the test proved the presence of only human, not animal, haemoglobin. As I watched the reaction occur for the fourth time that morning, my mind was suffused by the keenest of pleasures: a pure, a delicate, mental, nay, cerebral, joy. A joy which, I believed, would always surpass in quality the lesser joys of the flesh in just such a measure as the tone of my own violin, its quivering strings eloquent in their passion, would surpass the discordant scrapings of the street fiddlers of London.
Steps roused me from my happy contemplation. Two people. One was Stamford, my colleague, a rotund, inoffensive man, much attached to the pleasures of the table, although not yet prey to the cold sensuality of the glutton. The other . . . a smaller man than I, the length of his stride told me, stepping more heavily to one side than the other. The hint of a drag in a militarily precise pace: wounded on the right, high on the limb."
Entry from the fic that keeps on giving and my visual depiction of it :
I just wanted to show my appreciation for the fic and it's creator @artemisastarte , the only other thing that keeps me waking up is knowing it will update eventually.
Don't look if you don't wanna see me botch Prismo by giving him a human form and I am terribly uninformed in south asian culture so his outfit may... Upset you.
Human prismo and lich, although supposedly based on a fic I read I decided to draw my own version of them that I imagined with the fic. The fic is set in modern america. I just love the fic. If I did anything wrong please do leave me criticism in the comments.
Here's the link if you'd like to give it a read. Highly recommend, slight grammatical errors btw. Contains rarepair, specifically Lich/Prismo so if that's not your cup of tea don't read it, if you're curious read it. Oh yeah it contains violence and depictions of rape.