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| naturam expellas [expelles] furca, tamen usque recurret (L) You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, but she will always come back. — Horace, Epistulae 1: 10: 24. |
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| natura non facit saltum [saltus] (L) Nature makes no leaps; nature works uniformly. |
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| nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus (inciderit) (L) Let not a god intervene unless a knot occur worthy such a deliverer (＝god). — Horace, Ars Poetica 191-92 (劇作についての注意: cf. 本文 deus ex machina). |
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| ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito (L) Do not yield to misfortunes; on the contrary, go more boldly to meet them. — Virgil, Aeneis 6: 95. |
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| necessitas non habet legem (L) Necessity has [knows] no law. |
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| nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo (L) I have not, I want not, I care not. |
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| nec mora, nec requies (L) neither delay nor rest; without intermission — Virgil, Georgica 3: 110. |
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| nec pluribus impar (L) no unequal match for several (suns); a match for the whole world (Louis 十四世のモットー). |
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| nec scire fas est omnia (L) Nor is it lawful to know all things. — Horace, Odae 4: 4: 22. |
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| nefasti dies (L) ＝dies nefasti. |
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| ne fronti crede (L) Don't trust to appearances. (cf. nimium ne…) |
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| nekros ou daknei (Gk: dead man bites not) Dead men tell no lies. — Plutarch, Pompeius 77. |
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| nemine contradicente (L: no one speaking in opposition) without opposition (略 nem. con.). |
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| nemo me impune lacessit (L) No one provokes me with impunity. (スコットランド王及びあざみ勲爵士団 (the Order of the Thistle) のモットー) |
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| nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit (L: no mortal is wise at all times) The wisest may make mistakes. — Pliny (the Elder), Naturalis Historia 7: 41: 2. |
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| nemo repente fuit turpissimus (L) No man becomes a villain all at once. — Juvenal, Satirae 2: 83. |
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| nemo tenetur ad impossibile (L) No one is bound by what is impossible. |
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| ne plus ultra (L: not more beyond) the uttermost point; acme. |
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| ne quid nimis (L) (Let there be) nothing in excess. — Terence, Andria 1: 1: 34 (cf. m den agan). |
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| nervi belli pecunia infinita (L) Endless money is the sinews of war. (cf. Cicero, Orationes Philippicae 5: 2: 5) |
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| nessuna nuova, buona nuova (It.) ＝nulla nuova, buona nuova. |
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| nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria (It.) (There is) no greater sorrow than to remember happy days in present misery. — Dante, Inferno 5: 121-23. |
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| ne sutor supra crepidam judicaret (L: let not the shoemaker criticize beyond his last) Let the cobbler stick to his last. — Pliny (the Elder), Naturalis Historia 35: 36 (画家の Apelles が, 靴の描き方だけでなく絵画自体を批判した靴職人に言った言葉). |
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| nihil sub sole novum (L) (There is) nothing new under the sun. — Eccles. 1: 9 (Vulgate では 1: 10). |
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| nihil tetigit quod non ornavit (L) He touched nothing without embellishing it. (Westminster Abbey にある Oliver Goldsmith 記念碑の Dr. Johnson による銘: Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit, nullum quod tetigit non ornavit ‘Who left scarcely any kind of writing untouched, and nothing touched that he did not adorn' から) |
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| nil actum credens [reputans] dum [cum, quum] quid superesset agendum (L) believing nothing done while anything was left to be done. — Lucan, Pharsalia 2: 657. |
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| nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa (L) to have no guilt at heart, to turn pale at no crime — Horace, Epistulae 1: 1: 61. |
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| nil consuetudine majus (L) (There is) nothing greater than custom. (cf. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2: 345) |
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| nil desperandum (L) Never despair; there is no reason to despair. — Horace, Odae 1: 7. |
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| nil nisi cruce (L) nothing but by the Cross; no reward without suffering (cf. Gal. 6: 14). |
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| nil sine numine (L) nothing without the divine will (米国 Colorado 州のモットー). |
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| nimium ne crede colori (L) Do not trust too much to appearances. — Virgil, Aeneis 2: 17 (cf. ne fronti crede). |
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| nisi Dominus frustra (L) Unless the Lord (keep the city, the watchman waketh but) in vain. — Ps. 127: 1 (Vulgate では 126: 1; Edinburgh 市のモットー). |
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| nitor in adversum (L) I strive in the opposite direction. — Ovid, Metamorphoses 2: 72. |
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| nomen atque omen (L) a name and also an omen; an ominous name — Plautus, Persa 4: 4: 73. |
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| non Angli sed angeli (L) Not Angles but angels. (奴隷市で売られていた美しい若者がアングル族 (Angles) の出身であると聞いて, 教皇 Gregory 一世がのべたと伝えられる言葉; cf. Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica 2: 1) |
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| non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum (L) It is not every man's lot to go to Corinth. — Horace, Epistulae 1: 17: 36 (Corinth は奢侈の町として有名; 「すべての人が, 善行の報いを得ることができるわけではない」の意). |
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| non expedit (L) It is not expedient. (カトリック教徒がイタリアにおける政治的選挙に参加することを禁じる 1874 年教皇庁内赦院 (Sacred Penitentiary) から出された命令 (教皇 Pius 十世により解禁); 本来は一般的に, ローマ教皇が問い合せに対して否定的な答えをする時, その理由をあげる冒頭の言葉; cf. Seneca, De Ira 3: 11) |
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| non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco (L) Not unacquainted with misfortune, I learn to succor [befriend] the wretched. — Virgil, Aeneis 1: 630. |
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| non multa, sed multum (L) not many but much (cf. multum legendum…). |
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| non omnia possumus omnes (L) We cannot all do everything. — Virgil, Eclogae 8: 63. |
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| non omnis moriar (L) I shall not wholly die. — Horace, Odae 3: 30: 6. |
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| non quis, sed quid (L: not who, but what) not the person, but the deed. |
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| non sibi, sed patriae (L) not for himself, but for his native land (cf. Cicero, De Finibus 2: 14: 45). |
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| non sum qualis eram (L) I am not now what I once was. — Horace, Odae 4: 1: 3. |
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| non tali auxilio (L) not (for) such aid as this — Virgil, Aeneis 2: 521. |
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| nonumque prematur in annum (L) And let it (＝your piece) be kept until the ninth year. — Horace, Ars Poetica 388. |
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| nosce te ipsum [teipsum] (L) Know thyself. (cf.gn thi seauton) |
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| noscitur a [ex] sociis (L) A man is known by his companions. |
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| nous avons chang tout cela (F) We have changed all that. — Moli re, Le Mdecin malgr lui 2: 4. |
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| nous verrons (ce que nous verrons) (F) We shall see (what we shall see). |
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| nulla dies sine linea (L) no day without a line [without something done] (勤勉な画家についてのべた言葉; cf. Pliny (the Elder), Historia Naturalis 35: 10: 36). |
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| nulla nuova, buona nuova (It.) No news is good news. |
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| nulli secundus (L) second to none — Appuleius, Florida 1: 9: 32. |
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| nullius addictus [adductus] jurare in verba magistri (L) not bound to swear to the words of any master; to follow no one blindly — Horace, Epistulae 1: 1: 14. |
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| nullum quod tetigit non ornavit (L) ＝nihil tetigit quod non ornavit. |
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| nunc aut nunquam (L) now or never. |
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| nunc est bibendum (L) Now is the time for drinking. — Horace, Odae 1: 37: 1. |
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| nunquam minus solus quam cum solus (L) Never less alone than when alone. (cf. Cicero, De Officiis 3: 1: 1) |
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