southern celestial hemisphere
- Based upon parallax measurements, it [Xi Draconis] is located at a distance of 112.5 light-years (34.5 parsecs) from the Sun.
- It [Xi Draconis] bore the traditional names Grumium. This is a graphic corruption of the Latin Grunnum ‘snout’, as Ptolemy had described this star as being on the jawbone of the dragon.
- The Latin specific epithet vulgaris means “common”.
- In the Roman era, copper was mined principally on Cyprus, the origin of the name of the metal, from aes cyprium (metal of Cyprus), later corrupted to cuprum (Latin).
- E pluribus unum
- Sic semper tyrannis
- There are likely several English iterations of Henry II’s original quote because it had to be translated; Henry, though he understood many languages, spoke only Latin and French.
The beginnings of all things are small.
Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et MalorumVeni, vidi, vici
Julius CaeserIn order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
René Descartes (1644), Principles of Philosophy- Cogito, ergo sum
- Flag_of_Paris_with_coat_of_arms.svg (Wikimedia Commons)
- Flag_of_New_York.svg (Wikimedia Commons)
- In the lower part of the seal appears, in three lines, BOSTONIA/CONDITA A.D. / 1630. (“Boston Founded AD. 1630”). On a ring of “continental buff” surrounding the seal is SICUT PATRIBUS SIT DEUS NOBIS (“God be with us as He was with our fathers”) at the top, and CIVITATIS REGIMINE DONATA AD. 1822. (“Presented with the government of a body politic in the year of Our Lord 1822”), at the bottom, all in blue.
- The motto “God be with us as He was with our fathers” comes from 1 Kings, 8:57
- Latin (Wikipedia)
Latin (lingua Latīna, [ˈlɪŋɡʷa laˈtiːna] or Latīnum, [laˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition.
