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|{{Anchor|barba crescit caput nescit}}{{Lang|la|barba crescit caput nescit}}||beard grows, head doesn't grow wiser||
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|{{Anchor|barba non facit philosophum}}{{Lang|la|barba non facit philosophum}}||a beard doesn't make one a philosopher||Wise only in appearance. From [[Aulus Gellius]]' ''Attic Nights''<ref>''[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/9*.html Attic Nights, Book 9]'' by Aulus Gellius (English translation)</ref>
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|{{Anchor|barba tenus sapientes}}{{Lang|la|barba tenus sapientes}}||wise as far as the beard||Wise only in appearance. From [[Desiderius Erasmus|Erasmus]]'s collection of [[Adagia|Adages]].
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|{{Anchor|Beata Virgo Maria}}{{Anchor|Beatae Mariae Virginis}}{{Lang|la|Beata Virgo Maria}} <small>(BVM)</small>||[[Blessed Virgin Mary]]||A common name in the [[Roman Catholic Church]] for [[Mary, the mother of Jesus]]. The [[genitive case|genitive]], ''Beatae Mariae Virginis'' (BMV), occurs often as well, appearing with such words as ''horae'' (hours), ''litaniae'' ([[litany|litanies]]) and ''[[Divinum Officium|officium]]'' (office).
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|{{Anchor|beatae memoriae}}{{Lang|la|beatae memoriae}}||of blessed memory||See ''in memoriam''
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|{{Anchor|beati pauperes spiritu}}{{Lang|la|beati pauperes spiritu}}||blessed in spirit [are] the poor.||A [[Beatitudes|Beatitude]] from {{bibleref|Matthew|5:3}} in the [[Vulgate]]: ''beati pauperes spiritu, quoniam ipsorum est regnum caelorum'' "Blessed in spirit [are] the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens".
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|{{Anchor|beati possidentes}}{{Lang|la|beati possidentes}}||blessed [are] those who possess||Translated from [[Euripides]]
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|{{Anchor|beati qui ambulant}}{{Lang|la|beati qui ambulant lege domini}}||blessed are they who walk in the law of the Lord||Inscription above the entrance to [[St. Andrew's Church (New York City)]], based on the second half of [[Psalm 119|Psalm 119:1]]
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|{{Anchor|beati quorum via}}{{Lang|la|beati quorum via integra est}}||blessed are they whose way is upright || first half of [[Psalm 119]]:1, base of several musical setting such as [[Beati quorum via (Stanford)]]
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|{{Anchor|beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam}}{{Lang|la|beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam}}||blessed is the man who finds wisdom||From [[s:Bible (King James)/Proverbs#3:13|Proverbs 3:13]]; set to music in a 1577 [[motet]] of the same name by [[Orlando di Lasso]].
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|{{Anchor|Bella, mulier qui hominum allicit et accipit eos per fortis}}{{Lang|la|Bella, mulier qui hominum allicit et accipit eos per fortis}}||war, a woman who lures men and takes them by force||Latin proverb{{Citation needed|date=June 2017}}
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|{{Anchor|bella gerant alii}}{{Lang|la|bella gerant alii}}<br><small>Protesilaus amet!</small>||let others wage war<br><small>Protesilaus should love!</small>||Originally from [[Ovid]], ''Heroides'' 13.84,<ref>[http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ovid/ovid.her13.shtml Ovidi Nasonis Epistvlae Heroidvm, XIII. Laodamia Protesilao]</ref> where Laodamia is writing to her husband [[Protesilaus]] who is at the [[Trojan War]]. She begs him to stay out of danger, but he was in fact the first Greek to die at [[Troy]]. Also used of the [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]] marriages of 1477 and 1496, written as {{Lang|la|bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube}} (let others wage war; you, happy Austria, marry). Said by [[Matthias Corvinus|King Matthias]].
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|{{Lang|la|bella detesta matribus}} || war hateful to mothers || From [[Horace]]
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|{{Lang|la|bello et jure senesco}} || I grow old through war and law || Motto of the [[d'Udekem|House of d'Udekem d'Acoz]]
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|{{Lang|la|[[bellum omnium contra omnes]]}}||war of all against all||A phrase used by [[Thomas Hobbes]] to describe the [[state of nature]]
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|{{Lang|la|bellum Romanum}}||war as the Romans did it||All-out war without restraint as Romans practiced against groups they considered to be barbarians
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|{{Lang|la|[[bellum se ipsum alet]]}}||war feeds itself||
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|{{Anchor|Biblia pauperum}}{{Lang|la|[[Biblia pauperum]]}}||Paupers' Bible||Tradition of biblical pictures displaying the essential facts of Christian salvation
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|{{Anchor|bibo ergo sum}}{{Lang|la|bibo ergo sum}}||I drink, therefore I am|| A play on "[[cogito ergo sum]]", "I think therefore I am"
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|{{Anchor|bis dat qui cito dat}}{{Lang|la|bis dat qui cito dat}}||he gives twice, who gives promptly||A gift given without hesitation is as good as two gifts.<!-- Bis means "two times", not "twice as much". -->
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|{{Anchor|bis in die}}{{Lang|la|bis in die}} <small>(bid)</small>||twice in a day||[[Medical prescription#Abbreviations|Medical shorthand]] for "twice a day"
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|{{Anchor|bona fide}}{{Lang|la|bona fide}}||in [[good faith]]||In other words, "well-intentioned", "fairly". In modern contexts, often has connotations of "genuinely" or "sincerely". ''Bona fides'' is not the plural (which would be ''bonis fidebus''), but the [[nominative case|nominative]], and means simply "good faith". Opposite of ''mala fide''.
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|{{Anchor|bona notabilia}}{{Lang|la|bona notabilia}}||note-worthy goods||In law, if a person dying has goods, or good debts, in another diocese or jurisdiction within that province, besides his goods in the diocese where he dies, amounting to a certain minimum value, he is said to have {{Lang|la|bona notabilia}}; in which case, the probat of his will belongs to the archbishop of that province.
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|{{Anchor|bona officia}}{{Lang|la|bona officia}}||good services||A nation's offer to mediate in disputes between two other nations
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|{{Anchor|bona patria}}{{Lang|la|bona patria}}||goods of a country||A jury or [[assize]] of countrymen, or good neighbors
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|{{Anchor|bona vacantia}}{{Lang|la|bona vacantia}}||vacant goods||United Kingdom legal term for ownerless property that passes to [[The Crown]]
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|{{Anchor|boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere}}{{Lang|la|boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere}}||it is a good shepherd's [job] to shear his flock, not to flay them||[[Tiberius]] reportedly said this to his regional commanders, as a warning against taxing the populace excessively.
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|{{Anchor|bono malum superate}}{{Lang|la|bono malum superate}}||overcome evil with good||Motto of Westonbirt School
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|{{Anchor|bonum commune communitatis}}{{Lang|la|bonum commune communitatis}}||common good of the community||Or "general welfare". Refers to what benefits a society, as opposed to {{Lang|la|bonum commune hominis}}, which refers to what is good for an individual. In the film ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', this phrase is chanted by an assembled group of people, in which context it is deliberately similar to another phrase that is repeated throughout the film, which is ''The Greater Good''.
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|{{Anchor|bonum commune hominis}}{{Lang|la|bonum commune hominis}}||common good of a man||Refers to an individual's happiness, which is not "common" in that it serves everyone, but in that individuals tend to be able to find happiness in similar things.
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|{{Lang|la|boreas domus, mare amicus}}||the North is our home, the sea is our friend||Motto of [[Orkney]]
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|{{Anchor|brutum fulmen}}{{Lang|la|brutum fulmen}}||harmless (or inert) thunderbolt||Used to indicate either an empty threat, or a judgement at law which has no practical effect
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|{{Anchor|busillis}}{{ill|busillis|it}}||baffling puzzle, thorny problem||[[John of Cornwall (theologian)|John of Cornwall]] (ca. 1170) was once asked by a [[scribe]] what the word meant. It turns out that the original text said ''in diebus illis'' [in those days], which the scribe misread as ''in die busillis'' [at the day of ''Busillis''], believing this was a famous man. This [[mondegreen]] has since entered the literature; it occurs in [[Alessandro Manzoni]]'s novel ''[[The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)|The Betrothed]]'' (1827), in [[Fyodor Dostoevsky|Dostoevsky]]'s ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' (1880), and in [[Andrea Camilleri]]'s [[Salvo Montalbano|Inspector Montalbano]] series.
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== References ==
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'''Additional references'''
* {{cite book|last=Adeleye|first=Gabriel G.|title=World Dictionary of Foreign Expressions|editor1=Thomas J. Sienkewicz|editor2=James T. McDonough, Jr.|location=Wauconda, Illinois|publisher=Bolchazy-Carducci|year=1999|isbn=0865164223|url-access= registration|url=https://archive.org/details/worlddictionaryo00adel|ref=none}}
* {{cite book|last=Stone|first=Jon R.|title=Latin for the Illiterati|location=London & New York|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0415917751|year=1996|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/latinforillitera0000ston|ref=none}}

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