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O procul este, profani
Far hence be souls profane! (tr Dryden)
Vergil, Aeneid 6:258 (inscription over the Temple of Diana)
quoted by Hazlitt (The Fight) and by Fielding (Tom Jones 5:11; describing a fight)

O laborum dulce lenimen
O sweet solace of labors!
Horace, Carmina 1/32:14-15

Oderint dum metuant
Let them hate, as long as they fear
Lucius Accius, Atreus
describing the mental equipment of the effective ruler

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo
I hate the vulgar crowd and keep them off
Horace, Carmina 3/1:1

Omne bellum sumi facile, ceterum aegerrume desinere
Wars are easy to start, but hard to leave off
Sallust, Bellum Jugurthum 83:1

Omnia mors aequat
Death makes all things equal
Claudian, De Raptu Prosperpinae

Ovid

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit
All things change, but nothing ends
Ovid, Metamorphoses 15:165

Omnia vincit amor
Love conquers all
Vergil, Eclogues 10:69

Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset
In the opinion of all he was capable of ruling, if he had never ruled
Tacitus, Historiae 1:49

Orpheus in silvis; inter delphinas, Arion
Orpheus in the woods, but among the dolphins, Arion
Virgil, Eclogues 8:56
quoted by Francis Bacon in the sense of appropriate rhetoric

 

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