Latin
Quotations H

Habent sua fata libelli
Books have their own destinies
Teretianus Maurus, De Syllabis 1:1286
quoted at the chapter The Saga of the Yonan Codex in Metzger Reminiscences

Haec olim meminisse iuvabit
This, one day, will be pleasing to remember
Vergil, Aeneid 1:203
sometimes quoted to include the preceding Forsan et "Perhaps even"
quoted at the chapter Vexations of an Author in Metzger Reminiscences

Hinc illae lacrimae
Hence these tears
Terence, Andria 126 (or 1/1:99)
later used conventionally, in Horace, Epistles 1/19:41 and elsewhere

Hoc genus omne
All that crowd
Horace, Satires 1/2:2

Hominem pagina nostra sapit
It is of man that my page smells [not of myths or monsters]
Martial, Epigrams 10/4:10
stating his purpose in writing; compare at Parcere

Homo homini lupus
Man is wolf to man
derived from Plautus
for the exact quote, see at Lupus; for a similar saying by Hobbes; see at Bellum

Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto
I am a man; I regard nothing human as alien to me
Terence, Heauton Timorumenos 77 (or 1/1:25)
for one standardized version of this thought, see at Nihil

 

 

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