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| caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt (L) Those who cross the sea change only their climate, not their mind. — Horace, Epistulae 1: 11: 27. |
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| cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator (L) The penniless traveler will sing in presence of the robber. — Juvenal, Satirae 10: 22 (「持たぬ者は失うものなし」の意). |
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| carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero (L) Seize the (present) day, trust the least possible of the future. — Horace, Odae 1: 11: 8 (cf. 本文 carpe diem). |
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| causa latet, vis est notissima (fontis) (L) The cause (of the fountain) is hidden, but the effect is most clear. — Ovid, Metamorphoses 4: 287. |
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| cedant arma togae (L: let arms yield to the toga) Let military power give way to civil power. — Cicero, De Officiis 1: 22: 77 (米国 Wyoming 州のモットー). |
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| celui qui ne dit rien consent (F: one who says nothing consents) Silence gives consent. (cf. qui tacet…) |
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| celui qui veut, celui-l peut (F: he who has the will, has the power) Where there's a will there's a way. |
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| ce n'est que le premier pas qui co te ＝il n'y a que le premier pas qui cote. |
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| certum est quia impossibile est (L) It is true because it is impossible. (cf. Tertullian, De Carne Christi 5; credo quia…) |
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| c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur (F) It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. — La Fontaine, Fables 1: 15. |
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| c'est le commencement de la fin (F) It's the beginning of the end. (Borodino における Napoleon の敗北 (1812) を聞いた時の Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand の言葉と伝えられる.) |
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| chacun () son got (F) every one to his taste. (cf. de gustibus…) |
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| ch teaux en Espagne (F: castles in Spain) castles in the air. |
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| cherchez la femme (F: look for the woman) There's a woman at the bottom of the affair. — Dumas p re, Le Mohicans de Paris 2: 11. |
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| che sar, sar (It.) What will be will be. |
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| chi tace acconsente [confessa] (It.: he who is silent consents [confesses]) Silence gives consent. (cf. qui tacet…) |
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| Christe eleison (Latinized Gk) Christ have mercy. |
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| cicada cicadae cara, formicae formica (L: cicada is dear to cicada, ant to ant) Like draws to like. (cf. simile gaudet…; similia similibus…) |
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| circuitus verborum (L: circuit of words) a round-about expression; a circumlocution — Cicero, De Oratore 3: 49: 191. |
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| circulus in probando (L: circle in the proof) arguing in a circle; a vicious circle. |
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| civis Romanus sum (L) I am a Roman citizen. — Cicero, Orationes in Verrem 5: 5: 147 (この申し開きによって死罪などを免れることができたという). |
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| clarum et venerabile nomen (L) an illustrious and venerable name — Lucan, Pharsalia 9: 203. |
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| cogito, ergo sum (L) I think, therefore I exist. (cf. 本文 cogito) |
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| concordia discors (L) discordant harmony — Horace, Epistulae 1: 12: 19. |
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| conditio sine qua non (L: condition without which the matter cannot be) an indispensable condition. |
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| conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit (L) A mind conscious of rectitude laughs at the falsehoods of rumor. — Ovid, Fasti 4: 311. |
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| consensus facit legem (L) Consent makes law. |
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| consuetudo pro lege servatur (L) Custom is held as law. |
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| consule Planco (L: when Plancus was consul) in my younger days — Horace, Odae 3: 14: 28. |
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| contraria contrariis curantur (L) Opposites are cured by opposites. |
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| cor ad cor loquitur (L) Heart speaks to heart. |
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| coram populo (L: before the people) publicly; in public. |
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| corruptio optimi pessima (L) The corruption of the best is worst of all. |
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| coup de foudre (F: thunderbolt) an unexpected event [disaster]; love at first sight. |
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| crambe repetita (L: cabbage warmed up again) an old story — Juvenal, Satirae 7: 154 (cf. Gk dis kramb thanatos ‘cabbage served twice is death'). |
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| credat Judaeus Apella(, non ego) (L) Let Apella, the superstitious Jew, believe it(; I don't). — Horace, Satirae 1: 5: 100. |
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| credo quia absurdum (est) (L) I believe it because it is absurd. (cf. certum est…) |
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| crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit (L) The love of money grows as our wealth increases. — Juvenal, Satirae 14: 139. |
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| crescit eundo (L) It increases as it goes. — Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6: 341 (米国 New Mexico 州のモットー). |
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| crux criticorum (L) a crux for critics. |
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| cucullus non facit monachum (L) The cowl does not make the monk. |
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| cui Fortuna ipsa cedit (L) to whom Fortune herself yields — Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum 34. |
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| cum privilegio (L: with privilege or licence) by leave of the authorities. |
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| cum tacent, clamant (L: although they keep silence, they cry aloud) Their silence is more expressive than words. — Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam 1: 21. |
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| curiosa felicitas (L) careful felicity of expression — Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon 118: 5 (Horace についてのべた言葉). |
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