An allusion to Isaiah 6.3: plena est omnis terra gloria eius ("the whole earth is full of his glory"). A neutral or uninhabited area, or a land not under the sovereignty of any recognized political entity. John's), also root of French name of same, Terre-Neuve Latin name of Newfoundland (island portion of Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, capital- St. Similarly, terminus ad quem (limit to which) may also refer to the latest possible date of a non-punctual event (period, era, etc.), while terminus a quo (limit from which) may refer to the earliest such date.įirst name used to refer to the Australian continent Used with terminus post quem (limit after which). In archaeology or history, refers to the date before which an artefact or feature must have been deposited. Phrase concluding Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus. The hour finishes the day the author finishes his work. Medical shorthand for "three times a day". Suetonius attributes this to Julius Caesar, from when Caesar was on the African coast. Name of song by popular Irish singer Enya Also, motto of Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. It is shown in the "About Google Web Accelerator" page. "Tempus Rerum Imperator" has been adopted by the Google Web Accelerator project. From Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15, 234-236.įrom Virgil's Georgics (Book III, line 284), where it appears as fugit inreparabile tempus. See entry for details.Īlso "time, that devours all things", literally: "time, gluttonous of things", edax: adjectival form of the verb edo to eat. The times are changing, and we change in themġ6th century variant of two classical lines of Ovid: tempora labuntur ("time labors", Fasti) and omnia mutantur ("everything changes", Metamorphoses). ![]() ![]() Literally "Heroic Times" refers to the period between the mythological Titanomachy and the (relatively) historical Trojan War. Rendered also with nosce te ipsum, temet nosce ("thine own self know") appears in The Matrix translated as "know thyself". Translated in the novel as "They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier".Ī reference to the Greek γνῶθι σεαυτόν ( gnothi seauton), inscribed on the pronaos of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, according to the Greek periegetic writer Pausanias (10.24.1). The motto of the fictional Enfield Tennis Academy in the David Foster Wallace novel Infinite Jest. They can kill you, but they cannot eat you, it is against the law. Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est Said in 1697 by Johann Bernoulli about Isaac Newton's anonymously submitted solution to Bernoulli's challenge regarding the Brachistochrone curve. ![]() John Locke used the term to describe the human mind at birth, before it had acquired any knowledge.įor of such (little children) is the kingdom of Godįrom St Mark's gospel 10:14 " talium (parvuli) est enim regnum Dei" similar in St Matthew's gospel 19:14 " talium est enim regnum caelorum" ("for of such is the kingdom of heaven") motto of the Cathedral School, Townsville. Romans used to write on wax-covered wooden tablets, which were erased by scraping with the flat end of the stylus.
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