Speaking and Communicating

Latin language proverbs and phrases about human communication: public or private.

In Exactly the Same Words

Submitted by Latin Proverbs on 08/18/2009

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Totidem verbis
In exactly the same words.

Submitted by Latin Proverbs on 08/18/2009

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Sesquipedalia verba (Horace, Ars Poetica)
Sesquipedalian words; extremely long words.

Submitted by Latin Proverbs on 08/17/2009

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verbis ad verbera
From words to blows.

Submitted by Latin Proverbs on 03/30/2007

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Nescit vox missa reverti (Horace)
Once let out, what you have said cannot be taken back.

Submitted by Latin Proverbs on 03/30/2007

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Lingua Latina non mortua est quod eam loquimur.
Latin language is not dead because we speak it.