Profound Senteniae Antiquae

Here's some profound sentences for ancient Roman authors.  The translations are all my own so all the mistakes are mine.

1. Nullus accusator caret culpa; omnes peccavimus (Seneca)
"No accuser is without crimes; we all have sinned."

Even pagan philosophers can figure out original sin!

2. Nulla pars vitae vacare officio potest (Cicero)
"No part of life can be free from duty."

This is also very true, even if we don't like it. 

3. Prima virtus est vitio carere. (Quintilian)
"The first virtue is to lack faults."

And so according to Seneca we do not have the first virtue

Latin and Economics

so....

I didn't post anything about Rome.  Instead I wrote long journals and emailed them to friends/family.

Anyways, there's this Latin phrase that showed up in both of my economics classes this term.  It is Ceteris Paribus.  It is usually translated as "holding everything else equal"

The funny thing is that there's 3 different ways to pronounce the phrase.

1. Classical Latin pronounces the 'c' as a hard sound.
2. Ecclesiastical Latin pronounces the 'c' as a ch sound.
3. Economic Latin pronounces it as a soft c sound.

Oh yeah, Rome was great.