Latin Phrases

mulgere hircum

"to milk a male goat"

From Gerhard Gerhards' (1466-1536) [better known as Erasmus] collection of annotated Adagia (1508). Attempting the impossible.

multis e gentibus vires

"from many peoples, strength"

Motto of Motto  of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan.. Conciseness. The motto of Rutland Rutland,, a county in central England.

multum in parvo

"much in little"

Latin phrases are often multum in parvo, parvo, conveying much in few words.

mundus vult decipi

"the world wants to be From James Branch Cabell. Cabell . deceived"

munit haec et altera vincit

"this one defends and the other one conquers"

Motto of Motto  of Nova Scotia. Scotia.

mutatis mutandis

"with those things changed which needed to be changed"

Thus, "with the appropriate changes".

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Nasciturus pro iam nato habetur, quotiens de commodis eius agitur 

"The unborn is deemed to have been born to the Refers to a situation where an unborn child is deemed extent that his own to be entitled to certain inheritance rights. inheritance is concerned"

natura abhorret a vacuo

"nature abhors a vacuum"

natura non contristatur 

"nature is not saddened"

natura non facit saltum ita nec lex

Shortened form of "sicut "sicut natura nil facit per saltum ita "nature does not make a nec lex " ("just as nature does nothing by a leap, so leap, thus neither does neither does the law"), referring to both nature and the the law" legal system moving gradually.

natura non facit saltus

 A famous aphorism aphorism of  of Linnaeus Linnaeus stating  stating that all "nature makes no leaps" organisms bear relationships on all sides, their forms changing gradually from one species to the next. From

That is, the natural world is world is not sentimental or compassionate.