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| pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres (L) Pale Death, with impartial step, knocks at the cottages of the poor and the palaces of kings. — Horace, Odae 1: 4: 13-14. |
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| palmam qui meruit ferat (L) Let him bear the palm who has deserved it. (Lord Nelson のモットー; palm は勝利の象徴) |
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| panem et circenses (L: bread and games)food and recreation at public expense — Juvenal, Satirae 10: 81. |
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| parce, precor, precor (L) Be merciful, I beg, I beg! — Horace, Odae 4: 1: 2 (parce, parce, precor ともいう). |
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| parcere subjectis et debellare superbos (L) To spare the vanquished and to suddue the proud. — Virgil, Aeneis 6: 853. |
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| par nobile fratrum (L: noble pair of brothers) a well-matched pair; two just alike — Horace, Satirae 2: 3: 243. |
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| Parthis mendacior (L) more mendacious [lying] than the Parthians — Horace, Epistulae 2: 1: 112. |
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| parturiunt [parturient] montes, nascetur ridiculus mus (L) The mountains are in labor and the result will be a ridiculous mouse. — Horace, Ars Poetica 139 (cf. 「大山鳴動して鼠一匹」). |
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| parvis componere magna (L) to compare great things with small — Virgil, Eclogae 1: 23. |
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| paulo maiora canamus (L) Let us sing somewhat loftier things. — Virgil, Eclogae 4: 1. |
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| pax huic domui (L) Peace be to this house. — Matt. 10: 12; Luke 10: 5. |
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| pax vobiscum (L) Peace be to you. — Gen. 43: 23 (甦(よみがえ)ったイエスが弟子たちに向って言ったときの言葉は Pax vobis (Luke 24: 36)). |
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| Pelio imponere Ossam (L: to pile Ossa on Pelion) to aggravate what is already aggravated (cf. L Pelion imposuisse Olympo ‘to have piled Pelion on Olympus' — Horace, Odae 3: 4: 52). |
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| per angusta ad augusta (L) through trial to honors. |
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| per aspera ad astra (L: through hardships to the stars) through suffering to renown (cf. Seneca, Hercules Furens 437; ad astra…). |
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| pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt (L) May they perish who have said our good things before us. — Donatus; St.Augustine. |
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| per mare, per terras [terram] (L) over sea and over land — Ovid, Heroides 14: 101. |
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| per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum (L) Through various accidents, through so many crises of fortune — Virgil, Aeneis 1: 204. |
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| pharmakon n penthes (Gk) a drug that kills sorrow; the nepenthe of gods. |
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| plus  a change, plus c'est la m me chose (F: the more it changes, the more it is the same thing) No superficial change alters its essential nature. |
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| poesis est vinum daemonum (L) Poetry is devil's wine. — St. Augustine. |
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| poeta nascitur, non fit (L) The poet is born, not made. (cf. orator fit…) |
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| populus vult decipi, (ergo) decipiatur (L) The people wish to be deceived, (therefore) let them be deceived. |
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| porro unum est necessarium (L) But one thing is necessary. — Luke 10: 42 (Duke of Wellington のモットー). |
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| possunt quia posse videntur (L: they are able because they seem (to themselves) to be able) They can, because they think they can. — Virgil, Aeneis 5: 231. |
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| post equitem sedet atra cura (L: black care sits behind the horseman) Even the rich man on horseback cannot escape his cares. — Horace, Odae 3: 1: 40. |
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| post factum nullum consilium (L) After the deed no counsel is of avail. |
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| presto maturo, presto marcio (It.) Soon ripe, soon rotten. |
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| pretium laborum non vile (L) The value of labor (is) not trifling. (黄金羊毛勲爵士団 (the Order of the Golden Fleece) のモットー) |
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| principia, non homines (L) principles, not men. |
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| principiis obsta (L) Resist the first beginnings. — Ovid, Remedia Amoris 91 (cf. venienti occurrite…). |
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| prior tempore, prior jure (L) First in time, first by right; first come first served. |
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| pristinae virtutis memores (L) mindful of the valor of former days — Sallust, Catilina 60. |
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| pro aris et focis (L: for altars and hearths) for religious and civil liberty — Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3: 40: 94. |
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| probitas laudatur et alget (L) Honesty is praised, and freezes [left to starve]. — Juvenal, Satirae 1: 74 (cf. virtus laudatur…). |
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| procul, o procul este, profani (L) Hence, oh get hence, ye profane [uninitiated]. — Virgil, Aeneis 6: 258. |
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| pro Deo et ecclesia (L) for God and the Church. |
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| profanum vulgus (L) ⇒odi profanum vulgus et arceo. |
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| proprie communia dicere (L) to utter commonplaces as one's own — Horace, Ars Poetica 128. |
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| pro rege, lege, et grege (L) for the king, the law, and the people. |
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| pulvis et umbra sumus (L) We are but dust and shadow. — Horace, Odae 4: 7: 16. |
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