![]() (Vergil) Mirabile visu - Wonderful to behold Miserere - Have mercy Missa solemnis - Solemn Mass. I've got to see a man about a dog Millennium (millennia) - A thousand year period Minime senuisti! - You haven't aged a bit! Minus habens - Absentminded Mirabile dictu - Wonderful to say/relate. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi - Excuse me. (Juvenalis) Mens sibi conscia recti - A mind conscious of its rectitude Meum cerebrum nocet - My brain hurts Meum pactum dictum - My word is my bond Mihi cura futuri - My concern is the future Mihi ignosce. (Seneca) Mens sana in corpore sano - A sound mind in a sound body. (Vergil) Mens rea - Guilty mind Mens regnum bona possidet - An honest heart is a kingdom in itself. (Quintilianus) Mens agitat molem - The mind moves the matter. (Moderation in all things) (Ovid) Mei capilli sunt flagrantes - My hair is on fire Meliora cogito - I strive for the best Melitae amor - Love of Malta Melius est praevenire quam praeveniri - Better to forestall than to be forestalled Melius frangi quam flecti - It is better to break than to bend Melius tarde, quam nunquam - Better late than never Mellita, domi adsum - Honey, I'm home Memento mori - Remember that you must die Memento vivere - A reminder of life (literally remember that you have to live) Memorabilia - Memorable things Memorandum - A note of a thing to be remembered Memoria in aeterna - In everlasting remembrance Memoriter - From memory Mendacem memorem esse oportet - A liar needs a good memory. (Curtius Rufus) Medicus curat, natura sanat - The physician treats, nature cures Medio tutissimus ibis - You will go safest in the middle. (Cicero) Medice, cura te ipsum! - Physician, heal thyself! (Versio Vulgata) Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant - Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. (Ovid) Maxima debetur puero reverentia - We owe the greatest respect to a child Maximus in minimis - Great in little things Me fallit - I do not know Me iudice - I being judge in my judgement Me oportet propter praeceptum te nocere - I'm going to have to hurt you on principle Me transmitte sursum, caledoni! - Beam me up, Scotty! Mea culpa - Through my fault Mea maxima culpa - Through my very great fault Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo - My conscience means more to me than all speech. (Virgin Mary) Mater memento mori - Remember your mortality Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus - Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries Mater - Mother Materfamilias - Mother of family Materia medica - Medical matter Materiam superabat opus - The workmanship was better than the subject matter. To give something valuable to someone not respecting it Mater artium necessitas - Necessity is the mother of invention Mater dolorosa - Sorrowful mother. (Mediterranean) Margaritas ante porcos - Pearls before swine. ![]() (Petronius) Mare clausum - A closed sea Mare liberum - An open sea Mare nostrum - Our sea. ![]() (Pliny the Elder) Manus in mano - Hand in hand Manus manum lavat - One hand washes the other. A crime that society decides is wrong for some reason, not inherently evil Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono - There is, to be sure, no evil without something good. (Publilius Syrus) Malum prohibitum - A prohibited wrong. (Ill-gotten gains seldom prosper.) (Cicero) Malum consilium quod mutari non potest - It's a bad plan that can't be changed. (Horace) Magnificat - It magnifies Magnum bonum - A great good Magnum opus - Great work, the major work of one's life Magnus frater spectat te - Big Brother is watching you Maior risus, acrior ensis: quadragesima octava regula quaesitus - The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife: the 48th rule of acquisition Mala fide - In bad faith (something which is done fraudulently) Male parta male dilabuntur - What has been wrongly gained is wrongly lost. (Horace) Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter - Necessity is the mother of all invention Magister Artium (MA) - Master of arts Magister mundi sum! - I am the master of the universe! Magna charta - Great paper Magna cum laude - With great honour or academic distinction Magna res est vocis et silentii temperamentum - The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet Magnas inter oper inops - A pauper in the midst of wealth. M Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos! - You infernal machine! Give me a beverage or give me my money back! Maecenas atavis edite regibus - Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors.
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