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| eau b nite de cour (F: holy water of court) fair promises; empty words. |
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| ecce agnus Dei (L) Behold, the lamb of God. — John 1: 29. |
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| crasez l'inf me! (F) Crush the infamous thing. (Voltaire が 1762 年 11 月 28 日付の A.M. d'Alembert への手紙で, 革命前のフランスの固陋(ころう)な体制派, カトリック教会に対してのべた言葉) |
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| e flamma cibum petere (L: to seek food from the flames) to be reduced to the last extremity — Terence, Eunuchus 3: 2: 38. |
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| ego sum rex Romanus et super grammaticam (L) I am the king of the Romans and am superior to grammar. (ラテン語の誤りを正そうとした枢機卿に対する皇帝 Sigismund の言葉) |
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| eheu! fugaces labuntur anni (L) Alas! the fleeting years slip away. — Horace, Odae 2: 14: 1. |
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| emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros (L) (Learning) softens manners, and does not permit men to be rude. — Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 2: 9: 48. |
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| en cueros (vivos) (Sp.: in the (living) skin) naked; without clothing (時に, en cuerpo (Sp.) ‘in close-fitting dress' を誤用でこの意味に用いることがある). |
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| ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (L) with the sword she seeks peaceful repose under liberty (Algernon Sidney (1622-83) の作に帰せられる; 米国 Massachusettes 州のモットー). |
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| e pluribus unum (L) one out of many (1956年以前の米国のモットー). |
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| eppur si muove (It.) And yet it does move. (地動説を撤回した際の Galileo の言葉と伝えられる) |
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| epulis accumbere divum (L) to sit at banquets of the gods — Virgil, Aeneis 1: 79. |
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| e re nata (L) according to the circumstances; as matters are — Terence, Adelphi 3: 1: 8. |
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| errare est humanum (L) ＝humanum est errare. |
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| errare malo cum Platone (L) I choose rather to err with Plato. |
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| esse est percipi (L) To be is to be perceived. (Berkley 哲学の基本原理) |
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| esse quam videri (L) to be rather than to seem (米国 North Carolina 州のモットー). |
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| est modus in rebus (L) There is a middle course in all things. — Horace, Satirae 1: 1: 106. |
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| esto perpetua (L) Be thou lasting. (故郷 Venice を想う Paolo Sarpi 教父の臨終の言葉といわれる; 米国 Idaho 州のモットー) |
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| et hoc [id] genus omne (L) and all [this] kind (of thing). |
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| et in Arcadia ego (L) I too (lived) in Arcadia; I, too, know all about it. (「Arcadia の羊飼い」という Poussin の絵の中の墓碑銘) |
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| et sic de ceteris [similibus] (L) and so of the rest [the like]. |
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| et tu, Brute! (L) And you too, Brutus. (暗殺者の中に Brutus を認めた Caesar の最後の言葉とされる; cf. The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of York (1595); Shak. Caesar 3: 1: 77) |
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| eventus stultorum magister (L: the result is the schoolmaster of fools) Fools must be taught by experience. (cf. experientia docet stultos) |
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| ex Africa semper aliquid novi (L) always something new out of Africa — Pliny (the Elder), Naturalis Historia 8: 17: 42. |
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| excelsior (L: higher) ever upward (米国 New York 州のモットー). |
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| exceptio probat regulam (L) The exception proves the rule. (本来は, この後に in casibus non exceptis が続き, 「例外は例外でない場合の規則を確認する」だが, 「例外があることは規則のある証拠」の意で用いられることが多い) |
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| exegi monumentum aere perennius (L) I have reared a monument more lasting than bronze. — Horace, Odae 3: 30: 1. |
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| ex fructu arbor agnoscitur (L) The tree is known by its fruits. — Matt. 12: 33. |
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| exitus acta probat (L) The result justifies the deed. — Ovid, Heroides 2: 85. |
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| ex nihilo nihil fit (L) Out of nothing nothing comes. (cf. Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1: 149; 2: 287; ⇒本文 ex nihilo; cf. de nihilo…) |
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| ex pede Herculem (L: from the foot (we may know) Hercules) the whole from the part shown (Pythagoras が Hercules の背丈をその足の大きさから推し量ったとの言い伝えから; cf. ex ungue…). |
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| experientia docet stultos (L) Experience teaches fools. (cf. eventus stultorum…) |
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| experto credite [crede] (L) Trust one who has had experience. — Virgil, Aeneis 11: 283. |
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| expertus metuit (L: having had experience, he dreads it) A burnt child dreads the fire. — Horace, Epistulae 1: 18: 87 (cf. 「羹(あつもの)に懲りて膾(なます)を吹く」). |
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| ex tempore (L) on the spur of the moment; according to circumstances — Cicero, De Oratore 3: 50: 194 (⇒本文 extempore). |
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| extinctus amabitur idem (L) This same man (abused when alive) will be loved after his death. — Horace, Epistulae 2: 1: 14. |
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| ex ungue leonem (L: from the claw (we may judge of) the lion) We may judge of the whole from a part. (Alcaeus などに帰されるギリシャの諺: eks onukh n leonta; cf. ex pede…) |
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| ex uno disce omnes (L) ＝ab uno disce omnes. |
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