Cranbrook Sententia Quiz #4 (2026)

Semper Latina vivat!

May Latin live forever!

Et tu, Brute?

Even you, Brutus?/ You too, Brutus?

Cave Idus Martias!

Beware the Ides of March!

Velle est posse

To be willing is to be able. (i.e. Where there's a will, there's a way.)

persona non grata

an unwelcome person

Speramus meliora: resurget (ex) cineribus.

We hope for better things: it will rise from the ashes.

De minimis non curat lex.

The law does not care about trifles.

mens sana in corpore sano

a healthy mind in a healthy body

panem et circenses

bread and circuses

Vestis virum reddit.

Clothes make the man.

Stultum est timere id quod non potes vitare.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Numquam tu habebis satis pecuniae.

You will never have enough money.

Gladiator in arena consilium capit.

A gladiator makes his plan in the arena.

nihil magni sine magno labore

nothing great without great work

ex post facto

from after the fact

Mens regnum bona possidet.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Fiat lux - et erat lux.

Let there be light - and there was light.

Repetitio est mater studiorum.

Repetition is the mother of studies.

ipsa scientia potestas est

Knowledge itself is power.

ab urbe conditā

from the founding of the city

ad Kalendas Graecas

At the Greek Kalends

Tempus fugit.

Time flies.

Caveat emptor.

Let the buyer beware.

Res ipsa loquitur.

The thing speaks for itself.