A remarkable number of English words have Latin origins, and many Latin phrases are still used untranslated by English stylists. Here are a selection of 45 Latin phrases you could use in your blogs to add a little classicist feel and erudition to your endeavours. From John o’London.
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“The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ levelled to every understanding and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticisms of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from its indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power, and pre-eminence. The doctrines which flowed from the lips of Jesus himself are within the comprehension of a child; but thousands of volumes have not yet explained the Platonisms engrafted on them: and for this obvious reason that nonsense can never be explained.”
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The night time seducers of women were called incubi, of men succubi. Curiously nuns more than once, according to Carl Sagan, said the incubus that visited them by night closely resembled the priest-confessor or the bishop, and, more curiously still, they awoke the next day, as a contemporary chronicler put it, to “find themselves polluted just as if they had commingled with a man”.
