Latin
Quotations G
Remember to pronounce it as G

Gaudeamus igitur / Juvenes dum sumus
Let us then rejoice / While we are young
German student song
Immortalized in Brahms's Academic Festival Overture

Gloria invidiam vicisti
By your fame you have conquered envy
Sallust, Bellum Jugurthum 10:2

Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit
Greece, being conquered, conquered in turn her victor
Horace, Ars Poetica 1:156
by her arts of civilization

Graviora manent
Worse things await
Vergil Aeneid 6:84
for the full phrase, see at Sed

Gutta cavat lapidem
The drop of water hollows the stone
Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 4/10: 5
as the next line explains, this symbolizes the power of repeated small actions

 

 

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