LITERIS: health science information sites by japanese librarians
「リテリス:図書館員によるウェブ医学医療情報リソース選集」の名称 "LITERIS"は、次のセネカの格言にある"Books"を典拠にしています。 vita hominis sine literis mors est = The life of man, without books, is death. - Seneca ラテン語には韻が心地よく響く格言が多く、次はその幾つかの例です。 via, veritas, vita = the way, the truth, the life (John 14:6) ex nihilo nihil fit = Out of nothing nothing comes (Lucretius) cicada cicadae cara, formicae formica = cicada is dear to cicada, ant to ant ubi libertas, ibi patria = Where there is liberty, there is my country. relata refero = I tell the tale as I heard it. (Herodotus) vox populi, vox dei = The voice of people is the voice of God. こうしたラテン語やギリシャ語の格言に興味ある方には、シンプルな Latin (And A Few Greek) Phrases Defined が至便のサイトです。

T.Kodanaka, 2002