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| macte virtute (L) Be increased in your virtue!; Well done!; Good luck! — Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 7: 36: 5; Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1: 17. |
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| maestro di color che sanno (It.) the master of those that know (Dante がAristotle についてのべた言葉). |
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| magna civitas, magna solitudo (L) A great city (is) a great solitude. (cf. megal polis…) |
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| magnae spes altera Romae (L) a second hope of mighty Rome — Virgil, Aeneis 12: 168 (Aeneas の息子 Ascanius についてのべた言葉; 前途有望な若者について用いる). |
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| magna est veritas, et praevalet (L) Mighty is the truth, and it prevails. — 3 Esdras 4: 41 (通例 praevalet の代りに praevalebit ‘it will prevail' を用いる). |
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| magna est vis consuetudinis (L) Great is the power of habit. (cf. Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2: 15) |
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| magnas inter opes inops (L) poor in the midst of great wealth — Horace, Odae 3: 16: 28. |
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| magni nominis umbra (L) the shadow of a mighty name — Lucan, Pharsalia 1: 135. |
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| magnos homines virtute metimur, non fortuna (L) Great men we estimate by virtue, not by success. — Cornelius Nepos. |
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| malade imaginaire (F) one who fancies himself an invalid; a hypochondriac (cf. Moli re, Le Malade imaginaire (1673)). |
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| mali principii malus finis (L) the bad end of a bad beginning. |
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| malis avibus (L: with unlucky birds) under bad auspices (鳥占いから). |
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| manus manum fricat, et manus manum lavat (L) Hand rubs hand and hand washes hand. — Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon 45; Seneca の言葉とも伝えられる; cf. 「もちつもたれつ」. |
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| materiam superabat opus (L) The workmanship was better than the material. — Ovid, Metamorphoses 2: 5. |
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| matre pulchra filia pulchrior (L) a daughter more beautiful than her beautiful mother — Horace, Odae 1: 16: 1. |
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| maxima debetur puero reverentia (L) The greatest reverence is due to (the innocence of) a child. — Juvenal, Satirae 14: 47. |
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| mea virtute me involvo (L) I wrap myself up in my virtue. — Horace, Odae 3: 29: 54-55. |
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| mden agan (Gk) (Let there be) nothing in excess. (Solon あるいは Chilo に帰される; cf. ne quid nimis). |
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| medice, cura teipsum (L) Physician, heal thyself. — Luke 4: 23. |
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| medio tutissimus ibis (L) You will travel safest in a middle course. — Ovid, Metamorphoses 2: 137. |
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| megal polis, megal ermia (Gk) A great city is a great solitude. (cf. magna civitas…) |
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| mehr Licht! (G) More light! (Goethe の最後の言葉) |
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| me judice (L: I being judge) in my opinion. |
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| mens aequa (rebus) in arduis (L) an even mind in difficulties (Calcutta にある Warren Hastings の肖像の銘; cf. aequam memento…). |
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| mensa et toro (L) ＝a mensa et t(h)oro. |
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| mens agitat molem (L) A mind moves the mass. — Virgil, Aeneis 6: 727. |
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| mens sibi conscia recti (L: mind conscious to itself of rectitude) a good conscience — Virgil, Aeneis 1: 604 (cf. conscia mens…). |
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| merum sal (L) pure salt; true wit. |
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| metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est (L) It is just that every man should measure himself according to his own measure or standard. — Horace, Epistulae 1: 7: 98. |
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| mikron apo tou hliou metastthi (Gk) Stand a little out of my sunshine. — Plutarch, Alexander 14: 3 (Diogenes が Alexander 大王から臣従を求められた時の返答という). |
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| miseris succurrere disco (L) I am learning to succor the miserable. — Virgil, Aeneis 1: 630. |
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| mollissima fandi tempora (L) the most favorable times for speaking — Virgil, Aeneis 4: 293. |
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| montani semper liberi (L) Mountaineers (are) always freemen. (米国 West Virginia 州のモットー) |
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| monumentum aere perennius (L) ⇒exegi monumentum aere perennius. |
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| more majorum (L) after the manner of the ancestors. |
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| morituri morituros salutant (L) Those about to die salute those about to die. (↓) |
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| morituri te salutamus (L) We who are about to die salute thee. (cf. ave, Imperator…) |
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| mors janua vitae (L) Death is the gate of life; everlasting life. (cf. St. Bernard of Clairvaux, In transitu S. Malachi, sermo 1: 2: 4) |
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| mors omnibus communis (L) Death is common to all men. |
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| mos pro lege (L) Usage has the force of law. (cf. leges mori serviunt) |
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| multum legendum esse non multa (L) Read much not many (books). — Pliny (the Younger), Epistulae 7: 9 (略して multum, non multa ということも多い). |
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| munus Apolline dignum (L) a gift worthy of Apollo — Horace, Epistulae 2: 1: 216. |
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| musco lapis volutus haud obducitur (L) A rolling stone gathers no moss. — Publilius Syrus (cf. Erasmus, Adages 3: 4). |
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| mutato nomine, de te fabula narratur (L) With a mere change of name, the fable applies to you. — Horace, Satirae 1: 1: 69. |
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