Latin
Quotations E

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
Entities [in a theory] are not to be multiplied beyond necessity
William of Occam (c1285-1349)
for the likely original wording of this maxim, see at Nunquam

Esse quam videri [bonus malebat]
[He preferred] to be, rather than to seem to be, [good]
Sallust, Catilina 54 (probably drawing on Cicero)

Est dolendi modus, non est timendi
There is a limit to grief, but not to apprehension
Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 8:17
. . . because we fear all that may happen

Est natura hominum novitatis avida
It is the nature of man to be fond of novelty
Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis 12/1:11

Et ad huc sub iudice lis est
It is still before the court
Horace, Ars Poetica 1.78
Jules Janin, on whether Liszt or Thalberg had won their pianistic duel, 31 March 1837

Et in Arcadia ego
I too have been in Arcadia [was once happy, or alive]
derives from the scene of Daphnis's tomb in Vergil, Eclogues 5:42-44
title of "memento mori" paintings by Guericino (1622) and Poussin (1627, 1637)
quoted by Goethe in recalling his youthful travels in Italy

Et sceleratis sol oritur
The sun shines also on the wicked
Seneca, De Beneficiis 3:25

Ex nihilo, nihil fit
From nothing, nothing can be made
Proverbial saying, based on a line of Lucretius
for that line, see at Nil

Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo
I depart from life as from an inn, not as from home
Cicero, De Senectute 23

Exegi monumentum aere perennius
I have reared a monument more enduring than bronze
Horace, Carmina 3:10:1
for a related line, see at Non omnis

Exempli gratia
By way of example
This is the phrase behind the familiar abbreviation "eg"

 

 

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