Look at the complete list of languages: Available language pairs The most common way is by word input (you must know which language the word is in) but you can also use your browser's search box and bookmarklets (or favelets). There are several ways to use this dictionary. Total number of translations (in millions): 15 Please help us improve this site by translating its interface. It is a wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you (Plautus)Įsperanto is only partially translated. Miserum est opus, igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for (Seneca) We are slaves of the law so that we may be able to be free. We are slaves of laws so that we can be free (Cicero) Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus The magistrates are the ministers of the laws, the judges their interpreters we are all, in short, servants of the laws, so that we may be a free people (Cicero) Legum ministri magistratus, legum interpretes judices legum denique idcirco omnes servi sumus, ut liberi esse possimus He never was that citizen who would attempt to swim against the torrent, who would freely make his opinions known, and stake his life for the truth (Juvenal) Ille igitur nunquam direxit brachia contra torrentem nec civis erat qui libera posset verba animi proferre et vitam impendere vero Let us rejoice, therefore, while we are young after the pleasures of youth and after the weariness of old age, the earth will hold us (a students’ song dating from the 13th century) Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus post jucundam juventutem, post molestam senectutem, nos habebit humus We sons are heirs no less to diseases than to estates So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity (Seneca)įilii non plus possessionum quam morborum hæredes sumus We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved (Juvenal)ĭum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatemĪs long as we are among humans, let us be humane. We are all the worse for license (Terence)ĭociles imitandis turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus We catchers have been caught (i.e., the biter is bitten)

Let us refrain from doing ill for one powerful reason, lest our children should follow our crimes we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved (Juvenal) Let us be joyful, therefore (while we are young)Ībstineas igitur damnandis hujus enim vel una potens ratio est, ne crimina nostra sequantur ex nobis geniti quoniam dociles imitandis turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus EUdict dictionary: Latin - English Results for: gaudeamus igitur (juvenes dum sumus) Latin

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