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| vade in pace (L) Go in peace. — Exod. 4: 18. |
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| vade retro me, satana (L: get thee behind me, Satan) Stop trying to tempt me. — Matt. 16: 23; Mark 8: 33. |
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| vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas (L) Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. — Eccles. 1: 2. |
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| varium et mutabile semper femina (L) Woman is ever a fickle and changeable thing. — Virgil, Aeneis 4: 569-70. |
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| vedi Napoli e poi muori (It.) See Naples and then die. (cf. 「日光を見ぬうちは結構というな」) |
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| velis et remis (L) ＝remis velisque. |
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| veluti in speculum (L) even as in a mirror (cf. 1 Cor. 13: 12). |
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| vendidit hic auro patriam (L) He sold his country for gold. — Virgil, Aeneis 6: 621. |
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| venenum in auro bibitur (L: poison is drunk out of gold) The rich run more risk of being poisoned than the poor. — Seneca, Thyestes 3: 453. |
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| venienti occurrite morbo (L: meet the coming disease) Prevention is better than cure. — Persius, Satirae 3: 64 (cf. principiis obsta). |
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| venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus (L) The last day has come, and the inevitable doom. — Virgil, Aeneis 2: 324. |
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| vera incessu patuit dea (L) By her gait the true goddess was revealed. — Virgil, Aeneis 1: 405. |
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| verbatim et literatim (L) word for word and letter for letter. |
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| verbum sat sapienti (est) (L) A word is enough for the wise. — Terence, Phormio 3: 3 (略 verb. sap., verb. sat.; ⇒本文 verb. sap.; cf. dictum sapienti…). |
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| veritas omnia vincit (L) Truth conquers all things. |
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| veritas praevalet (L) Truth will prevail. (cf. magna est veritas…). |
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| veritas vos liberabit (L) Truth will make you free. — John 8: 32 (Johns Hopkins 大学のモットー). |
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| veritatis simplex oratio est (L) The language of truth is simple. — Seneca, Epistulae 49: 12. |
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| vestigia terrent, omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum (L) The footprints frighten me, all leading to your home, none turning back. — Horace, Epistulae 1: 1: 74-75. |
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| via trita via tutissima (L) The beaten path is the safest. |
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| via, veritas, vita (L) the way, the truth, the life (cf. John 14: 6). |
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| victi vincimus (L) Conquered, we conquer; the losers win. — Plautus, Casina 2: 8: 74. |
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| victix causa deis placuit, sed victa Catoni (L: if the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato) Noble spirits ally themselves to great causes even when there is no hope of ultimate success. — Lucan, Pharsalia 1: 128. |
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| video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor (L) I see the better and approve it, but I pursue the worse. — Ovid, Metamorphoses 7: 20-21. |
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| vidit et erubuit lympha pudica Deum (L) The modest water saw its God and blushed. (Canaan での奇跡について) |
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| vilius argentum est auro, virtutibus aurum (L) Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. — Horace, Epistulae 1: 1: 52. |
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| vincet amor patriae (L) The love of country will prevail. — Virgil, Aeneis 6: 823. |
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| vincit omnia veritas (L) ＝veritas omnia vincit. |
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| vincit qui se vincit (L) He conquers who conquers himself. |
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| vino vendibili suspensa hedera nihil [non] opus (L) Saleable (good) wine needs no (garland of) vine to be hanged. — Publilius Syrus; Erasmus, Adagia (「銘酒は看板を要せず」の意; cf. Good wine needs no bush (⇒bush1)) |
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| vir bonus dicendi peritus (L) a good man skilled in the art of speaking — Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12: 1: 1. |
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| vires acquirit eundo (L) It (＝fame) acquires strength as it goes. — Virgil, Aeneis 4: 175. |
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| Virgilium [Vergilium] vidi tantum (L: I just saw Virgil) I was not intimate with the great man. — Ovid, Tristia 4: 10: 51. |
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| virtus laudatur et alget (L) Virtue is praised, and is left to starve. (cf. probitas laudatur…) |
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| virtus post nummos (L: virtue after money) money first — Horace, Epistulae 1: 1: 54. |
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| virtute et armis (L) by valor and arms (米国 Mississippi 州のモットー). |
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| vis consilii expers mole ruit sua (L) Force without judgment falls by its own weight. — Horace, Odae 3: 4: 65. |
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| vita brevis, ars longa (L) ＝ars longa, vita brevis. |
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| vita hominis sine lit(t)eris mors est (L) The life of man, without books, is death. — Seneca. |
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| vitam impendere vero (L) to devote one's life to the truth — Juvenal, Satirae 4: 91 (Rousseau の選んだモットー). |
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| vita, si scias uti, longa est (L) Life is long, if you know how to use it. — Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae 2: 1. |
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| vivere est cogitare (L) To live is to think. — Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5: 38: 111. |
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| vivit post funera virtus (L) Virtue lives after the grave. |
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| vixere fortes ante Agamemnona (L)There were brave men before Agamemnon. — Horace, Odae 4: 9: 25. |
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| vogue la gal re! (F: let the galley sail) Here goes!; come what will! |
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| volenti non fit injuria (L) No injury is done to a consenting party. — Justinian, Digesta 47: 10: 1: 5. |
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| volo, non valeo (L) I am willing but unable. |
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| vox clamantis in deserto (L) the voice of one crying in the wilderness — John 1: 23; Matt. 3: 3; Mark 1: 3; Luke 3: 4. |
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| vox et praeterea nihil (L: a voice and nothing more) sound without sense. |
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| vox faucibus haesit (L) His voice stuck in his throat; he was dumb with amazement. — Virgil, Aeneis 2: 774. |
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| vultus est index animi (L) The countenance is the index of mind. (cf. Cicero, Orator 18) |
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