Latin Words/Phrases

• Bene fecisti Bernarde: "Well done Bernard"
• Deus ex machina: meaning "god from the machine" is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object
• munus a lingua: "oral advantage" (oral commendation, public approval)
• non respondere pro convitio est = not to respond is contempt
• pari passu: "with equal step"
• terra incognita = unknown land
• Ubi jus ibi remedium = "There is no right without a remedy" [see Eaton arb]
• Ut in Omnibus Glorificetur Deus: "That in All Things God May Be Glorified"
• Veritas in puteo: "Truth lies in a well"
• volubilis rota: "turning wheel"