Perfect Passive Participles

• Amicum proba, probatum ama. Test your friend; love him who passes the test.
• Annuit coeptis. He favors our undertakings (lit., favors the things having been begun). Vergil, Aeneid
• Laesa saepius repugnat ovis. Very often a sheep, when wounded, fights back.
• Musca cenat non vocata. A fly dines without being invited.
• Virtus laudata crescit. Goodness increases when praised.
• Vox audita perit, littera scripta manet. A word that is heard perishes; a letter that is written remains.

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