Quick note: For the quotations I use at the beginning of each chapter, a variety of translation options can be found on the internet. The translations listed here are mine and are by no means polished. They could rather be called working translations. Possible duplications with translations by other translators were not intended by me, but if they occur here, they are due to the Latin language.

Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. ~ My fault. My greatest guilt.

Dum differtur, vita transcurrit. Seneca ~ While one hesitates, life passes by.

Sol lucet omnibus. Gaius Petronius Arbiter ~ The sun shines for all.

Etiam tacere est respondere. ~ To be silent is also to respond.

Status quo. ~ current state

Captatio benevolentiae. ~ the seizure of benevolence (technical term of rhetoric).

Abyssus abyssum invocat. Vulgate, Psalm 42:8 ~ One mistake entails another mistake.

Cave canem! ~ Beware of the dog!

Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causa. Vergil ~ Happy one who can recognise the cause of things.

Vide, cui fidas! ~ Look, whom you trust!

Vivere est militare. Seneca ~ To live is to fight. (To live is to do military service).

Vitium fuit, nun mos est assentatio. Publius Syrus ~ Flattery has been a mistake, now it is custom.

Varium et mutabile semper femina. Vergil, Aeneid ~ Something capricious and ever changeable is woman.

Veniam petimusque damusque vicissim. Horace ~ Forgiveness we ask and give to each other.

Verbis parvam rem magnam facere. Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ By words make a small thing great.

Virtus est medium vitiorum et utrimque reductum. Horace ~ Virtue is the middle of faults and withdrawn on both sides.

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur. Ennius (quoted from Cicero, De amicitia 64) ~ A sure friend is known in an uncertain thing.

Vinum bonum deorum donum. ~ A good wine is a gift from the gods.

Vinum bonum laetificat cor hominum. ~ A good wine gladdens the heart of man.

Verum gaudium res severa est. Seneca ~ True joy is a serious thing.

Virtutem incolumem odimus. Horace ~ We hate uninjured virtue.

Acta est fabula, plaudite! Augustus according to Suetonius (Chapter 20) ~ The story is played, applaud!

Quaere et invenies. ~ Seek and you shall find.

Amantes amentes. Terence, Andria I, 3 ~ The mad lovers.

Panem et circenses. Juvenal ~ Bread and games

Causa aequat effectum. ~ The cause equals the effect.

Coepi parte carere mei. Ovid ~ I have begun to miss a part of myself.

Commoditas omnis sua fert incommoda secum. ~ Every advantage carries its own disadvantage.

Calamitas virtutis occasio est. Seneca, De providentia 4,6 ~ Defeat is the possibility of strength.

Cantilenam eandem canere. Terence, Phormio 495 ~ Singing the same song.

Clarior ex tenebris. ~ Brighter from the darkness

Nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur. Optimus ille est, qui minimis urgetur. Horace ~ For no one is born without fault. He is the best who is afflicted by the least.

Clam delinquentes magis puniuntur quam palam. ~ Those who secretly go astray are punished more than those who are known. (Rule of Law)

Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando! Vergil, Aeneid VI, 376 ~ Stop hoping that a god will reverse fate through prayers!

Deleatur. ~ It is to destroy.

Incipit. ~ It begins.

Casus magister alius et paene numerosior. Pliny Maior, Naturalis Historia XVII, 24 ~ A coincidence is a different and almost more numerical teacher.

Magna res libertas. ~ Freedom is a great thing.

Centum sunt causae, cur ego semper amem. Ovid, Ars amatorial ~ There are a hundred reasons why I always love.

Ubi tu Gaius ego Gaia. ~ Where you are Gaius, I am Gaia.

Ad infinitum. ~ Into infinity

Male parta male dilabuntur. ~ Evil acquired dissolves evil.

Fama nihil est celerius. ~ Nothing is faster than a rumour.

Aegroto, dum anima est, spes est. ~ There is hope for the sick while he has breath.

Fas est et ab hoste doceri. Ovid, Metamorphoses IV, 428 ~ It is also lawful to be taught by the enemy.

Familia super omnia ~ Family above all

Pares cum paribus facillime congregantur. ~ Equals gather more easily with equals.

Manum in pallio habere. ~ To have one's hand in one's coat

Qui desiderat pacem, bellum praeparat. Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari ~ He who longs for peace prepares war.

Parce, puer, stimulius et fortius utere loris. Ovid, Metamorphoses II, 127 ~ Spare, boy, with the spurs and use more strongly the reins.

Vitam brevem esse, longam artem. Seneca, De brevitate vitae I, 1 ~ Life is short, long is art.

Fides obligat fidem. ~ Trust binds trust.

Vae victis! Livius, Ab urbe condita IV, 48, 8f ~ Woe to the defeated!

Citius venit periculum, cum contemnitur. Publius Syrus, Sententia 92 ~ Quick comes the danger, while it is mocked.

Vera redit facies, assimulata perit. Petronius, Satyricon LXXX, 9,8 ~ The true face returns, the pretence is lost.

Timor est spes. ~ Fear is hope.

Faciam ut mei memineris. Plautus, Persa ~ I did that you might remember me.

Superbientem animus prosternet. Book of Proverbs 16,18 ~ The spirit destroys the overconfident.

Lacrimae nobis deerunt ante quam causae dolendi. Seneca, Ad Polybium de consultatione 4,2 ~ We shall rather lack tears than reasons to suffer.

Secrilegia minuta puniuntur, magna in triumphis ferunt. Seneca, epistulae morales 87,23 ~ Small crimes are punished, great ones flaunted in triumphs.

Haec precor, hanc vocem extremam cum sanguine fundo. Vergil, Aeneid IV, 621~ I plead these things, these are my last words, I pour them out with blood.

Accidit in puncto, quod non speratur in anno. ~ It happens in the moment, what is not hoped for in a year.

Si te magnitudo malefici, si hominum existimato non movebat, ne illud quidem cogitabas, huius improbissimi furti sive adeo nefariae praedae tam inlustrem ac tam nobilem civitatem testem futuram? Cicero, In Verrem II, 1,87 ~ If you were not moved by the greatness of the crime, if you were not moved by the judgement of men, you certainly did not think this, that the witness of this worst theft or of the loot so very ungodly will be a citizenry so famous and so noble.

Dona nobis pacem. ~ Give us peace!

Adpropinquantis finis conplura fuere prodiga. Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni, XXXII ~ The approaching end there were many portents.

Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale! Catullus, Carmen 101 ~ And forever, brother, hail and farewell!

Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. // nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. Catullus, Carmen 85 ~ Why do I do this, you may ask // I do not know, but I feel to do and I agonise.

Dona dantur insuper. ~ Gifts are given from above.

Egit et gratias ei apud amplissimum ordinem, quod se honore cenae dignat[a] esset. Suetonius, Vespasian II,3 ~ He also thanks him at the greatest order, because he has been dignified by the honour of eating.

Fortuna iuvat audacem. ~ Fortune helps the brave.

Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι. Heraclitus ~ War is the father of all things.

Bene eveniat! Cicero, Ad Atticum VII. 2,4 ~ Be welcome!

Me salvo ~ While I am still alive.

Fide, sed cui, vide. ~ Trust, but to whom, see!

Bellum se ipse alet. Marcus Porcius Cato in Livius, Ab urbe condita XXXIV, 9, 12 ~ War feeds itself.

Pecunia non olet. Titus Flavius Vespasianus ~ Money does not stink.

Belli domique ~ In war and peace

Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum; mobilitate viget, viresque adquirit eundo. Vergil, Aeneid IV, 174 f. ~ Fama, an evil, the swiftest of all evils; it strengthens in motion, its powers increase in walking.

Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere? Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae XX, 9 ~ Is it not better to die for the sake of virtue than to lose a miserable and dishonourable life in disgrace, where alien pride is a mockery to her?

Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. Juvenal, Saitren X, 356 ~ It must be said that a sound mind is in a sound body.

Dum spiro, spero. ~ As long as I breathe, I hope.

Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt. Horace, Epistulae I, 11, 27 ~ The heavens, not the spirit change those who hasten across the sea.

tum meae, si quid loquor audiendum, // vocis accedet bona pars et '0 sol // pulcher, 0 laudande!' canam recepto // Caesare felix. /// teque dum procedit 'io Triumphe!' // non semel dicemus, 'io Triumphe!' // civitas omnis dabimusque divis // tura benignis. Horace, Carm. IV, 2.3, 45-52 ~ Then, telling any who must listen, // my voice approaches the good part, and "O fair sun // O thou to be praised!" I will sing happily over the recovered // Caesar. /// And as he appears to you "Oh triumph!" // not once only do we shout, "Oh triumph!" // the whole citizenry and we will give // incense to the benevolent gods.

Bellum tibi ex victoria nascitur. Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni Macedonis VII, 8, 21 ~ War is born of your victory.