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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
These times having the rare good fortune that you may think what you like and say what you think . . .
Tacitus, Annales 1;1
Our epitaph for Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes
Judgement and deliberation are the proper arts of the leader
Tacitus, Annales 3: 20

Rem acu tetigisti
You have hit it in the center [in archery]
Plautus

Rem tene, verba sequentur
Hold onto the subject, and the words will follow
Cato, advising the student orator

Romanus orbis ruit
The Roman world is collapsing
Jerome (c340-420), Epistulae 60:16

Rus in urbe
A little bit of country in the town
Martial, Epigrammata 12/57:21
originally referred to a mansion in the city, but with spacious grounds

 

 

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