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DemonstrativePronouns
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Demonstrative Pronouns
- Ad eundem gradum - To the same level
- Ad hoc - For a particular purpose. (improvised, made up in an instant)
- Ad idem - Of the same mind
- Duo cum faciunt idem, non est idem. When two do the same thing, it isn't the same (i.e. one can get away with doing something while another cannot.) Terence, Adelphoe
- Eiusdem generis - Of the same kind
- Eo ipso - By that very act
- Eo nomine - Under that name
- Extinctus amabitur idem - The same man will be loved after he's dead. (Horace)
- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. Some day perhaps we will be glad to look back even on these misfortunes. (Vergil)
- Hinc illae lacrimae. That's where these tears come from. (Hence these tears.) (Terence)
- Hunc tu caveto - Beware of this man (Horace)
- Id certum est quod certum reddi potest - That is certain that can be made certain
- Id est (i.e.) - That is to say
- Idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est. (To want) the same in intentions and disinclinations is what makes a firm friendship. Sallust, Bellum Catilinae
- Ille mi par esse deo videtur. He seems to me to be equal to a god. (Catullus)
- Laudant illa, sed ista legunt. Some (writing) is praised, but other is read. (Martial)
- Munit haec et altera vincit - One defends and the other conquers (Motto of Nova Scotia)
- Ne bis in idem. Not twice for the same thing. (Canones apostulorum; a legal maxim meaning that a person cannot be sentenced twice for the same crime.)
- Non est ei similis - There is no one like him
- Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you. (Ovid)
- Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. After this, therefore because of it. (A logical fallacy)
- Pro hac vice - For this occasion
- Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. Whatever this may be, I fear the Greeks even when they're bringing gifts. (Vergil, Aeneid)
- Verus amicus est tamquam alter idem - A true friend is as if a second self. (Cicero)
- Semper idem, Always the same (Cicero. Said to have been Xantippa's words about Socrates' facial expression.)
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