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One Latin phrase a day, with its real source and how to use it today.
Everyone knows CARPE DIEM. Almost nobody knows Horace wrote it in a poem that ends «trust tomorrow as little as you can». Carpe Diem gives you one Latin phrase each morning: the words as they came down to us, a literal translation, the real source, and where you would actually use it today. 100 phrases from classical antiquity and Roman law — all of it public domain, all of it explained in our own words. ◆ TODAY'S PHRASE: one a day, with its author and work. ◆ EXPLORE by word, category or theme: time, mortality, fortune, risk, judgment, power. ◆ SIX CATEGORIES: Time & Death, Power & War, Law, Love & Friendship, Wisdom, Fortune & Chance. ◆ FAVORITES: keep the ones you want at hand. ◆ SHARE clean, elegant phrase cards. ◆ OPTIONAL daily reminder and classic typography. Some of what is inside: why MEMENTO MORI was whispered to a general during his own triumph; that ALEA IACTA EST marked the legal moment Caesar declared war on Rome; that PECUNIA NON OLET was Vespasian holding a coin to his son's nose; that DULCE ET DECORUM EST was later called «the old lie» by a poet in the trenches. The Latin is given exactly as tradition transmits it. Translations and explanations are our own; nothing is copied from modern copyrighted translations. Where an attribution is disputed, we say so instead of inventing certainty. Works fully offline, no accounts, in 12 languages.