- et si ab
initio tales fuerunt, non sibi per connubium, sed per
stuprum potius convenerunt."
Augustine of Hippo, City of God, 14.13
Clark 1996.
Clark 1986...
-
cross a
dirty marsh. This
episode would have
inspired the duchess' motto : "
Potius mori quam foedari" ("rather
death than dishonour"). The
motto has later...
-
Middle Ages Coat of arms Motto: Kentoc'h
mervel eget bezañ saotret (Breton)
Potius mori quam fœdari (Latin) Plutôt la mort que la souillure (French) À ma vie (French)...
-
former Dukes of
Brittany is Kentoc'h
mervel eget bezañ
saotret in Breton, or
Potius mori quam fœdari in Latin. The "national day" is
observed on 1 August, the...
-
Thomas (1978).
Decernuntur enim
furanti gravia atque horrenda supplicia, ****
potius multo fuerit providendum, uti
aliquis esset proventus vitae. De
Optimo Reipublicae...
-
marriage purposes with the
royal or
reigning families.
Their motto is:
Potius mori quam foedari. The
family had a
hereditary seat in the
Upper House (Erste...
-
Vercelli Piazza Cavour and the
Torre dell’Angelo. Coat of arms Motto(s):
Potius mori quam
foedari (roughly: "Death
before dishonor")
Location of Vercelli...
- (active
during three periods between 1916 and 1963) used the variant, Esse
potius quam
videri with the same meaning. The U. S.
Consortium of Metropolitan...
-
interpretation of the law and
shaped the
Roman law:
Favorabiliores rei
potius quam
actores habentur (Digest of
Justinian I, D.50.17.125),
meaning "The...
- natura, 4.1073–1085: Nec
Veneris fructu caret is qui
vitat amorem, sed
potius quae sunt sine
poena commoda sumit; nam
certe purast sanis magis inde voluptas...
