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391 philosophy<br />

universal ~: Pax<br />

where ~ <strong>and</strong> glory lead: quo pax<br />

who wants ~ prepares for war: qui<br />

desiderat<br />

without making ~: infecta<br />

peach: pêche<br />

pear: beurré<br />

no ~s <strong>from</strong> an elm: no se<br />

pearl: moti<br />

pearly: nacré<br />

peasant: Bauer; Bonhomme; contadino;<br />

fellah; muzhik; ryot<br />

~ uprising: Jacquerie<br />

peck: almud<br />

pedal, with the loud: senza<br />

peddler: camelot<br />

pedigrees<br />

what do ~ avail: stemmata<br />

peel: pelure<br />

peers: per pares<br />

before one's ~: coram<br />

peevish: acariâtre<br />

penalty: amende<br />

under ~: sub poena<br />

pendant: pendeloque<br />

pending: in fieri; lis pendens<br />

peninsula, beautiful: si quaeris<br />

penniless: loger; sans<br />

be ~: loger; n'avoir<br />

penny<br />

~ saved <strong>and</strong> ~ earned: Sparen<br />

~ to Belisarius: date obulum<br />

pensive: pensieroso<br />

pensively: rêveusement<br />

people: demos<br />

common ~ <strong>and</strong> friendship: vulgus<br />

monkey ~: b<strong>and</strong>arlog<br />

~ hiss me but I applaud myself: populus<br />

me<br />

~ of rank: gens<br />

~ rule: regnant<br />

~ want bread <strong>and</strong> the circus: duas<br />

~ want to be deceived: populus vult<br />

~ who live in glass houses: wer im<br />

sometimes the common ~ see aright:<br />

interdum<br />

to the ~: ad populum<br />

pepper: poivre<br />

sweet ~: pimiento<br />

per cent: por ciento; vom<br />

perfection is threefold: omne trinum<br />

performance: Vorstellung<br />

performer: artiste<br />

perhaps: peut-être<br />

peril, one's own: suo periculo<br />

perjuries, Jove laughs at lovers':<br />

periuria<br />

perjury: crimen<br />

permission<br />

allow me ~: mi permetta<br />

beyond ~: ultra<br />

~ of so great a man: pace<br />

~ to reside: permis<br />

what pleases us is permissible:<br />

erlaubt<br />

with your ~: avec votre; con permesso;<br />

pace<br />

perquisites: bâton; tour<br />

perseverance: persever<strong>and</strong>o<br />

he runs far who never turns: corre<br />

persimmon: chapóte<br />

person: chai; persona; walla<br />

acceptable ~: persona<br />

against the ~: in personam<br />

among other ~s: inter<br />

bowlegged ~: valgus<br />

condemned ~: condamné<br />

delivered in ~: en propria<br />

each ~: per capita<br />

fictitious ~: persona<br />

hapless ~: nebech<br />

hot-headed ~: mauvais<br />

important ~: gros<br />

in one's own ~: in propria persona<br />

in ~ : in persona<br />

most acceptable ~: persona<br />

newly successful ~: arriviste<br />

~al action dies with the ~: actio<br />

~ in distress is sacred: res<br />

~ of mixed ancestry: chicano; créole;<br />

criollo; Ladino; mestizo;<br />

métif; métis; mulatto<br />

~ who benefits: cestui<br />

self-centered ~: m'as-tu<br />

unacceptable ~: persona<br />

unemployed ~: chômeur<br />

wise ~: chachem<br />

personal: ad hominem<br />

pest: nudnik<br />

pheasant: faisan<br />

philosopher: abnormis<br />

philosophy: ancilla; Weltanschauung;<br />

Weltweisheit

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