Use this If you want to admit your own guilt or wrongdoing in a situation, it translates literally to “my fault.”įrom the Latin meaning an “unacceptable person” this term designates someone who’s no longer welcome in a social or business situation.
After that awful boat trip, I was glad to be back on terra firma. This Latin phrase means “clean slate” and denotes something or someone not affected by experiences and impressions. When you were a child, your mind might have been more of a tabula rasa than it is today. It denotes when something is true by its very nature.įor example, if you are always drunk in front of your children, you are ipso facto a bad parent. Meaning “by the fact itself” this is commonly used and also a very misused term. For example, legally, employers are not allowed to discriminate in hiring because of age, but many still practice de facto (in reality, in fact) discrimination. In Latin, de facto means “from the fact” and in use in English it is often used to distinguish was is supposed to be the case from what is actually the reality. On and on went the coverage, ad nauseam and ad infinitum - I wanted to throw. It means “to infinity” and can be used to describe something that goes on, seemingly or actually endlessly.
You might be able to guess what this phrase means simply through its similarity to the word we use in English. Used nowadays to signify betrayal, they are the famous last words of Julius Caesar after he is murdered by his friend Marcus Brutus in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. In vino veritasĪ good one for wine lovers, this quote from Pliny the Elder means, “in wine there is the truth.” It is often followed up with “in aqua sanitas” or “in water there is health”– something drinkers should maybe remember. Translated, it means “I came, I saw, I conquered”. These famous words were purported uttered by Roman emperor Julius Caesar after a short war with Pharnaces II of Pontus. Translated from the Latin, the quote means “I think, therefore I am” and comes from the writing of philosopher Rene Descartes. While there have been arguments about the exact translation, it is most commonly held to mean “seize the day” encouraging individuals to live life to the full today and do not worry about tomorrow. To inform his friends back in Rome of his victory, again according to Plutarch, Caesar succinctly wrote, " Veni, Vidi, Vici.This well-known phrase comes from a poem by Horace. With only three legions at his side, Caesar marched against Pharnaces and his force of 20,000 and defeated him in the Battle of Zela, or modern Zile, in what is today the Tokat province of northern Turkey. According to the Life of Caesar written by the Greek historian Plutarch (45–125 CE), Pharnaces, the son of Mithridates, was stirring up trouble for the princes and tetrarchs in several Roman provinces, including Bithynia and Cappadocia. Caesar traveled to Asia, where he learned that the primary troublemaker was Pharnaces II, who was king of Pontus, an area near the Black Sea in northeastern Turkey. While in Egypt (June of 47 BC) Caesar was informed of troubles that had arisen in Syria against Roman holdings. Pronounced by Julius Caesar ( " Life of Caesar ", Plutarch - " Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Julius ", Suetonius), Veni Vidi Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) quote echoed and inspired warriors and rulers through the centuries across the earth!
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