Schola Latina Universalis

Latin of the Classic Times and of the Middle Ages
SCHOLA LATINA
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ORBIS PICTUS
Plants
Fish and Reptiles
Insect
Birds
Animals
Humans
Country life
Occupations
Transportation
Cities
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Books
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Ethics
Kings and Gods
War
MAGIC ARTS
SAPIENTIA
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Sapientia C
Sapientia D
Sapientia E
Sapientia F
Sapientia G
Sapientia H
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Tabula rasa.
A scraped (clean) slate.
Referring to the wax tablets that the Romans used to write on and which were easily erased and, by extension, to the blank tablet of the mind when children are born. Anything can be written on the mind of a newborn. John Locke disagreed with Plato, who believed that children were born with pre-existing ideas and
maintained that the mind of the children, when born, is a tabula rasa.

 

Tarde venientibus ossa.

For those who come late, only the bones.

 

Temet nosce.
Know yourself. (alt, Nosce te ipsum)

 

Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis.
The times are changing, and we are changed in them.  (Cicero)

 

Tempori parce!
Save time!

 

Tempus fugit.
Time flees; i.e., time flies.

 

Terra incognita.
Unknown land, unexplored territory.

 

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
I fear the Danaens [the Ancient Greeks] even if they bring presents.
(Laocon warning Trojans against accepting the Trojan horse).

 

Tres faciunt collegium.
Three makes a company.

 

Tu quoque Brute filii mihi?
Even you Brutus, my son? (Caesar)

 

Tunc tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.
It also concerns you when the nearest wall is burning.