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Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat. (All [hours] wound; the last kills.) [Pulvis et] umbra sumus. (We are [dust and] shadow.) Serius est quam cogitas. (It is later than you think.) Sic labitur ætas. (Thus passes a lifetime.) Sic vita fluit, dum stare videtur. (Life flows away as it seems to stay the same.) Ultima latet ut observentur omnes.
Timepieces have been used to illustrate that the time of the living on Earth grows shorter with each passing minute. Public clocks would be decorated with mottos such as ultima forsan ("perhaps the last" [hour]) or vulnerant omnes, ultima necat ("they all wound, and the last kills").
Omnes homines sunt asini vel homines et asini sunt asini: All men are donkeys or men and donkeys are donkeys: a sophisma proposed and solved by Albert of Saxony (philosopher) omnes vulnerant, postuma necat, or, omnes feriunt, ultima necat: all [the hours] wound, last one kills: usual in clocks, reminding the reader of death omnia cum deo: all ...
Louis XIV of France had Ultima Ratio Regum ("last argument of kings") cast on the cannons of his armies. Motto of the American 1st Battalion 11th Marines; the French Fourth Artillery Regiment; Swedish Artilleriregementet. Also, the Third Battery of the French Third Marine Artillery Regiment has the motto Ultima Ratio Tribuni.
ab uno disce omnes: from one, learn all: Refers to situations in which a single example or observation indicates a general or universal truth. Coined in Virgil, Aeneid II 65-6. Example: in the court of King Silas in the American television series Kings. ab urbe condita (AUC) from the founding of the City
Ultima venturi quod erant oracula regis, Qui toti veniens mundo cum pace, placebit, Ut voluit, nostra vestitus carne decenter, In cunctis humilis, castam pro matre puellam Deliget, haec alias forma praecesserit omnes. Now my most recent words shall remain certain and true, because they were the last oracles of the king to come,
O vos omnes is a responsory, originally sung as part of Roman Catholic liturgies for Holy Week, and now often sung as a motet. The text is adapted from the Latin Vulgate translation of Lamentations 1:12. It was often set, especially in the sixteenth century, as part of the Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday. Some of the most famous ...
Tenebrae responsories are the responsories sung following the lessons of Tenebrae, the Matins services of the last three days of Holy Week: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Polyphonic settings to replace plainchant have been published under a various titles, including Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta ( Responsories for Holy Week ).