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  Vacca foeda - Stupid cow

  Vacca, vacca, vacca - Cow, cow, cow

  Vade in pace - Go in peace. (Roman way of saying goodbye)

  Vade mecum - Come with me. A constant companion

  Vae victis! - Woe to the conquered! (vanquished) (Livy)

  Vagans - Cruising

  Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur - Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out

  Vale, lacerte! - See you later, alligator!

  Vale - Farewell

  Valui ad satanam in computatrum meum invocandum - I succeeded in summoning satan into my computer

  Vanitas vanitatvm, omnis vanitas - Vanity of vanities, all is vanity

  Varia lecto (v.l.) - Variant reading

  Variatio delectat - There's nothing like change! (Cicero)

  Variorum - Of various people

  Velle est posse - To be willing is to be able

  Veni vidi duci - I came, I saw, I calculated

  Veni, vidi, vici - I came, I saw, I conquered. (Julius Caesar)

  Veni, Vidi, Visa - I Came, I Saw, I Shopped

  Veni, Vidi, volo in domum redire - I came, I saw, I want to go home

  Venienti occurrite morbo - Meet the misfortune as it comes. (Persius)

  Venire facias - You must make come

  Ventis secundis, tene cursum - Go with the flow

  Ventis secundis, tene/tenete cursum - The winds being favorable, hold the course

  Verba de futuro - Words about the future

  Verba movent, exempla trahunt - Words move people, examples draw/compel them. Deeds, not words, give the example

  Verba volant, (littera) scripta manet - Words fly away, the written (letter) remains

  Verbatim et litteratim - Word for word and letter for letter

  Verbatim - Exactly as said

  Verbum sapienti satis est (verb. sap.) - A word to the wise is sufficient. Enough said

  Veritas Lux Mea - The truth enlightens me / The truth is my light

  Veritas numquam perit - Truth never perishes. (Seneca)

  Veritas odit moras - Truth hates delay. (Seneca)

  Veritas vincit - Truth conquers

  Veritas vos liberabit - The truth will set you free

  Verso - Reverse

  Versus - Against

  Verum et factum convertuntur - The true and the made are interchangeable. One can know with certainty only what he have created himself

  Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt - I have jerks like you for breakfast

  Vesanum poetam qui sapiunt fugiunt - Anyone with a brain flees a versifying poet

  Vescere bracis meis - Eat my shorts

  Vestigia terrent - The footprints frighten me. (Horace)

  Vestis virum reddit - The clothes make the man. (Quintilianus)

  Veto - I forbid

  Vi et armis - By force and arms

  Via Crucis - The Way of the Cross

  Via Dolorosa - The Way of Sorrow

  Via Lactea - The Milky Way

  Via media - A middle way or course

  Via - By way of

  Vice versa - In reverse order

  Vice - In place of

  Victis honor - Honour to the vanquished

  Victoria Imperatrix Regina (VIR) - Victoria, Empress and Queen

  Victoria Regina (VR) - Queen Victoria

  Victoria Regina et Imperatrix (VRI) - Victoria, Queen and Empress

  Victoria, non praeda - Victory, not loot

  Victurus te saluto - He who is about to win salutes you

  Vide et credere - See and believe

  Vide ut supra - See the above

  Vide - See

  Videlicet (viz.) - That is to say; To wit; Namely

  Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way

  Videre est credere - Seeing is believing

  Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit? - How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? (Cicero)

  Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas? - Seen any good movies lately?

  Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt - By watching, by doing, by counsulting well, these things yield all things prosperous. (Sallust)

  Vincere est totum - To win is everything

  Vincit omnia amor - Love conquers all

  Vincit omnia veritas - Truth conquers all

  Vincit qui se vincit - He conquers who conquers himself

  Vinculum unitatis - The bond of unity

  Vinum bellum iucunumque est, sed animo corporeque caret - It's a nice little wine, but it lacks character and depth

  Vinum et musica laetificant cor - Wine and music gladden the heart

  Vir bonus, dicendi peritus - A good man, skilled in speaking. (definition of an orator) (Cato the Elder)

  Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit - A wise man does not urinate against the wind

  Vir sapit qui pauca loquitor - It is a wise man who speaks little

  Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur - That man is wise who talks little (know when to hold your tongue)

  Vires acquirit eundo - It gains strength by going / as it goes. (Virgil)

  Virginibus puerisque - For maidens and youths

  Virgo intacta - Intact virgin

  Viri sunt viri - Men are slime

  Virtus in medio stat - Virtue stands in the middle

  Virtute et armis - By courage and by arms

  Virtvs probata florescit - Manly excellence in trial flourished

  Virtvtis fortvna comes - Good luck is the companion of courage

  Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum - Tell me, O Muse, of the skillful man. (Livius Andronicus)

  Virus - Poison or slime

  Vis comica - Sense of humour

  Vis consili expers mole ruit sua - Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight. (Discretion is the better part of valor) (Horace)

  Vis inertiae - The power of inertia - why things never change

  Vis maior - Higher force

  Vis medicatrix naturae - The healing power of nature

  Visa - Things seen

  Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio - Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway

  Visne saltare? - Do you want to dance?

  Vita brevis, ars lunga - Life is short, art is long

  Vita contin git. Vive com eo - Life happens. Live with it

  Vita luna! - Crazy life!

  Vita mutatur, non tollitur - Life is changed, not taken away

  Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est - Life is more than merely staying alive

  Vita sine libris mors est - Life without books is death

  Vitam impendere vero - To risk one's life for the truth

  Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia - Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives. (Cicero)

  Vitanda est improba siren desidia - One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness. (Horace)

  Vitiis nemo sine nascitur - No-one is born without faults. (Horace)

  Viva voce - With living voice

  Vivat regina - Long live the queen

  Vivat rex - Long live the king

  Vivat, crescat, floreat! - May he/she/it live, grow, and flourish!

  Vive hodie - Live today (not tomorrow)

  Vive vt vivas - Live that you may live

  Vivere commune est, sed non commune mereri - Everybody lives; not everybody deserves to

  Vivere disce, cogita mori - Learn to live; Remember death. (sundial inscription)

  Vivos voco, mortuos plango - I call the living, I mourn the dead. (church bell inscription)

  Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior - Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. (Erasmus)

  Vixere fortes ante agamemnona - Brave men lived before Agamemnon. (heroism exists even if it's not recorded)

  Vixit - He/she has lived

  Vltima ratio regvm - The final argument of kings. (motto of Louis XIV on his cannon)

  Vltra vires - Beyond [one's] authority outside the jurisdiction

  Volens et potens - Willing and able

  Volente Deo - God willing

  Volenti non fit iniuria - A person who consents does not suffer injustice

  Volo anaticulam cumminosam meam! - I want my rubber ducky!

  Volo, non valeo - I am willing but unable

  Volvptates commendat rarior vsvs - Infrequent use commends pleasure. (moderation in all things)

  Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores - You cling to your own ways and leave mine to me. (Petrarch)

  Vox clamantis in deserto - Voice crying in the desert. (voice in the wilderness unheeded warning, an opinion not in the mainstream

  Vox populi, vox Dei - The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Public opinion is obligatory)

  Vox populi - The voice of the people

  Vrbi et orbi - To the city and to the world. (preface of Papal documents)

  Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat - Every (hour) wounds, the last kills. (sundial inscription)

  Vulpem pilum mutat, non mores - A fox may change its hair, not its tricks. (People change behaviour but not their aims)

  Vultus est index animi - The face is the index of the soul/mind

 

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