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"Often, what is not collected becomes lost or at least unappreciated. This principle holds true to an extent for the neglect that all of Medieval Latin literature has suffered in publishing over the past century. Classical Latin literature has been gathered into series, which, although not always as inexpensive as potential users might wish, are nonetheless affordable. Consider the rows of blue-backed Oxford Classical Texts or the serried red ranks of the Latin volumes in the Loeb Classical Library."

"To preserve Latin literature inevitably meant preserving classical mythology."

"A university teaches. What does it teach? It must obviously teach all the languages in which the great literatures which have been preserved were written — Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and English."

"And indeed, Latin, although conventionally classified as a dead language, is present in every aspect of everyday life. It is part of Catholic rituals, Roman law maxims and procedures, and medieval philosophical traditions. Natural history has borrowed the scientific nomenclature of animals and plants from Latin, just as heraldry uses it for uniforms and mottos. The Bible and the classics provide a constant source of quotations, even for those who are neither priests nor schoolteachers: not only are literary works full of them, but they are also widely used in oratory, both sacred and forensic, as well as civil, whether parliamentary, academic or of other kinds."

"The official language used across the Roman Empire was Latin. This did not mean that every person from Antioch to St. Albans spoke to one another in the epigrams of Martial: the classical Latin of the great Roman poets, philosophers and historians was of no more use to ordinary day-to-day speakers than the syntax and vocabulary of Shakespeare’s sonnets would have been to an innkeeper or goatherd in Elizabethan England. In the east of the empire, Latin competed with Greek for the position of the most prevalent, admirable and useful language, particularly after the empire was formally partitioned in the early fourth century. In the west, Latin was adopted, adapted, and interbred with local tongues across the empire – a process that produced what would eventually become the great Romance languages of the second millennium AD. But if it was not exactly a universal tongue, Latin certainly was the first language of imperial business, which allowed educated Romans everywhere to communicate with one another and to advertise their status as sophisticated beings. Learning Latin – and the skills of grammar and rhetoric – formed an elemental part of elite education. It was not possible to contemplate a political or bureaucratic career without a working knowledge of the language. And to the priests, abbots, chancellors, scholars, lawyers, sheriffs, schoolteachers, nobles and kings of the Middle Ages, Latin would also become an indispensable tool."

"Latin is a dead language, As dead as it can be; It killed the ancient Romans, And now is killing me."

"Salus populi suprema lex esto."

"Quod nocet, saepe docet"

"Sapere aude."

"Qui non proficit, deficit."

"Qui transtulit sustinet."

"Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur."

"Repetita iuvant."

"Salus aegroti suprema lex."

"Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur"

"Qui primus venerit, primus verat."

"Quam bene vivas refert, non quam diu."

"Pulverulenta novis bene verritur area scopis."

"Qui audet adipiscitur."

"Quidquid discis, tibi discis"

"Qui me amat, amet et canem meum."

"Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit."

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

"Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit."

"Qui vitulum tollit, taurum subduxerit idem ."

"Qui vult dare parva non debet magna rogare."

"Rapiamus, amici, occasionem de die."

"Rem tene verba sequentur."

"Repetitio est mater studiorum."

"Roma die uno non aedificata est"

"Quantum satis."

"Potius sero quam numquam."

"Post prandium stabis, post coenam ambulabis."

"Praemonitus, praemunitus."

"Praestat cautela quam medela."

"Publica fama non semper vana."

"Qualis pagatio, talis laboratio."

"Qualis rex, talis grex."

"Quem di diligunt, adulescens moritur"

"Quem dii odere, paedagogum fecere (also Quem dii oderunt, paedagogum fecerunt)"

"Qui dormit non peccat"

"Quidquid agis, prudenter agas, et respice finem"

"Quieta non movere"

"Qui habet aures audiendi audiat"

"Qui multum habet, plus cupit."

"Qui nimis capit, parum stringit."

"Qui rogat, non errat."

"Qui scribit, bis legit."

"Qui tacet consentire videtur."

"Plus ultra"