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Learn Hardcore Latin: divitiae - the riches

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 49
/divitiae

divitiae

Word

divitiae

Meaning

the riches

Part of speech

noun

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Usages of divitiae

Vera dignitas non ex divitiis, sed ex bonis moribus nascitur.

True dignity is born not from riches, but from good character.

Mater filiae narrat divitias sine parcimonia diu manere non posse.

Mother tells her daughter that riches cannot last long without thrift.

Si luxuriae semper cedis, divitiae cito discedunt.

If you always yield to luxury, riches quickly go away.

Cives respondent se talem principem diligere, quia dignitatem patriae ante divitias ponit.

The citizens reply that they value such a ruler, because she puts the dignity of the fatherland before riches.

Mater dicit bonam vitam ex divitiis non nasci, sed ex constantia et liberalitate.

Mother says that a good life is born not from riches, but from steadfastness and generosity.

Pater dicit se amicitiam divitiis praeferre.

Father says that he places friendship above riches.

Lucia rogat cur censor non divitias, sed vitam civium diligentius spectet.

Lucia asks why the censor looks more carefully at the lives of the citizens, not at their riches.

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