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vendidit hic auro patriam [L], this man sold his country for gold.
venenum in auro bibitur [L], poison is drunk from a golden cup:
Seneca; no one bothers to poison poor people.
venez au fait [Fr], get to the point.
venez ici [Fr], come here.
venga aquí [Sp], come here.
venga lo que viniere [Sp], come what may.
venga qui [It], come here.
venia necessitati datur [L], indulgence is granted to necessity; necessity
knows no law.
venienti occurrite morbo [L], meet the approaching disease; prevention
is better than cure.
venire (facias) [L], lit., (make) to come; a writ or judge's order, instructing
the sheriff to summon a jury: law.
Venite [L], lit., come ye; a musical setting of the 95th Psalm (94th in
the Douay version), beginning, in Latin, Venite, exultemus Domino, "O
come, let us sing unto the Lord."
venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus [L], the last day (of Troy)
has come and the inevitable hour {or doom): Virgil.
veni, vidi, vici [L], I came, I saw, I conquered: Julius Caesar (message
to the senate, announcing his defeat of Pharnaces, king of Pontus,
47 B.C.).
venta [Sp], roadside inn; a sale.
ventana [Sp], window; window shutter.
vente [Fr], sale, —en vente, on sale; now ready (said of a book).
—vente au rabais, sale at reduced prices.
ventis secundis [L], with favorable winds.
Ventôse [Fr], in the Revolutionary calendar of the first French Republic,
the sixth month of the year, from Feb. 19 to March 20.
ventre à terre [Fr], lit., belly to ground; at full speed.
vera causa [L], a true cause.
vera incessu patuit dea [L], by her gait the true goddess was revealed:
Virgil.
verbatim et literatim [L], word for word and letter for letter.
verbera, sed audi [L], strike, but hear me; lash but listen.
Verbi Dei Minister [L], Preacher of the Word of God: abbr. V.D.M.
verbis ad verbera [L], from words to blows.
verboten [Ger], forbidden; prohibited; illicit.
verbum (sat) sapienti [L], a word to the wise (is enough): abbr. verb.
sap. or verb. sat.
verchovnoi sovyet S.S.S.R. [Russ], Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R.; the
legislature of the Soviet Union.
verdad [Sp], truth; reality. —¿no es verdad? or ¿verdad?, isn't it true?
isn't it so? —verdad es verde, truth is green.
verdeckte Märsche [Ger], stolen marches.