The epigraph at the beginning of the poem is the phrase Vicisti, Galilaee, Latin for " You have conquered, O Galilean ", the apocryphal dying words of the Emperor Julian.

Books 2 – 6 of the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, a Latin prose narrative of the same events apparently compiled by Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London, are closely related to Ambroise's poem.

On the other hand, one might posit a poem which is composed by a literate scribe, who acquired literacy by way of learning Latin ( and absorbing Latinate culture and ways of thinking ), probably a monk and therefore profoundly Christian in outlook.

* Catullus translations: Catullus's work in Latin and multiple ( ten or more ) modern languages, including scanned versions of every poem

Arguably the most famous elegiac couplet in Latin is his two-line 85th poem Odi et Amo:

It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter metre used in Greek epic and didactic poetry, leading it to become the standard metre for these genres in Latin poetry.

Hadrian wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek ; one of the few surviving examples is a Latin poem he reportedly composed on his deathbed ( see below ).

Although Virgil died before he could put the finishing touches on his poem, it was soon recognized as the greatest work of Latin literature.

In 1763, at the age of 17, Jones wrote the poem Caissa in Latin hexameters, based on a 658-line poem called " Scacchia, Ludus " published in 1527 by Marco Girolamo Vida, giving a mythical origin of chess that has become well known in the chess world.

The journey of the Trojan survivor Aeneas and his resettling of Trojan refugees in Italy are the subject of the Latin epic poem The Aeneid by Virgil.

In the United States, Virgil and specifically the Aeneid were taught in the fourth year of a Latin sequence, at least until the 1960s ; the current ( 2011 ) Advanced Placement curriculum in Latin continues to assign a central position to the poem: " The AP Latin: Virgil Exam is designed to test the student's ability to read, translate, understand, analyze, and interpret the lines of the Aeneid that appear on the course syllabus in Latin.

As a result, many phrases from this poem entered the Latin language, much as passages from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope have entered the English language.

Dow included Latin distichs and quotations in praise of Byrd in his manuscript collection of music ( GB Och 984-8 ) while Baldwin included a long doggerel poem in his commonplace book ( GB Lbm Roy App 24 d 2 ) ranking Byrd at the head of the musicians of his day:

An early twelfth-century Latin poem refers to a queened pawn as a ferzia, as opposed to the original queen or regina, to account for this.

The main ancient source for the story is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus.

They may both come from the hypothetical Late Latin * tropāre “ to compose, to invent a poem ” by regular phonetic change.

A Latin poem by a court official written to commemorate the coronation hints at the charisma of this young prince.

* The Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus, a first-century AD Latin epic poem.

Among his very numerous works two poems entitle him to a distinguished place in the Latin literature of the Middle Ages ; one of these, the De planctu naturae, is an ingenious satire on the vices of humanity.

An exception to this general tendency is his Latin treatise " De falconibus " ( later inserted in the larger work, De Animalibus, as book 23, chapter 40 ), in which he displays impressive actual knowledge of a ) the differences between the birds of prey and the other kinds of birds ; b ) the different kinds of falcons ; c ) the way of preparing them for the hunt ; and d ) the cures for sick and wounded falcons.

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

Latin translation of Abū Maʿshar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus (‘ Of the great Conjunction ( astronomy and astrology ) | conjunctions ’), Venice, 1515. Astrology was taken up by Islamic scholars following the collapse of Alexandria to the Arabs in the 7th century, and the founding of the Abbasid empire in the 8th.

One of these was his De arte metrica, a discussion of the composition of Latin verse, drawing on previous grammarians work.

Bede dedicated this work to Cuthbert, apparently a student, for he is named " beloved son " in the dedication, and Bede says " I have laboured to educate you in divine letters and ecclesiastical statutes " Another textbook of Bede's is the De orthographia, a work on orthography, designed to help a medieval reader of Latin with unfamiliar abbreviations and words from classical Latin works.

Divi Cæcilii Cypriani, Carthaginensis Episcopi, Opera Omnia ; accessit J. Firmici Materni, Viri Clarissimi, De Errore Profanarum Religionum ( in Latin ).

* De natura animalium at LacusCurtius ( complete Latin translation )

De jure ( in Classical Latin de iure ) is an expression that means " concerning fact ".

** De rerum natura by Lucretius ( Latin Literature, Epicurean philosophy )

** De triumphis ecclesiae by Johannes de Garlandia ( Latin )

In the late 18th century the Italian physician and anatomist Luigi Galvani marked the birth of electrochemistry by establishing a bridge between chemical reactions and electricity on his essay " De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari Commentarius " ( Latin for Commentary on the Effect of Electricity on Muscular Motion ) in 1791 where he proposed a " nerveo-electrical substance " on biological life forms.

In 1600, the English scientist William Gilbert returned to the subject in De Magnete, and coined the New Latin word electricus from ηλεκτρον ( elektron ), the Greek word for " amber ", which soon gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity.

* De triumphis ecclesiae, a Latin epic in elegiac metre, written c. 1250 by Johannes de Garlandia, an English grammarian who taught at the universities of Toulouse and Paris.

De Viris Illustribus ( in Latin ).

In 1766 he published a doctoral dissertation with the Latin title De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum ( On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body ), which discussed the influence of the Moon and the planets on the human body and on disease.

This New Learning and the Humanist movement, particularly the work of Linacre, promoted literae humaniores including Galen in the Latin scientific canon, De Naturalibus Facultatibus appearing in London in 1523.

* Agricola's work on gemstones and mineralogy: De Natura Fossilium, translated from Latin by Mark Chance Bandy

The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (" Of the rise and progress of the typographic art ", Cologne, 1639 ), which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, " the first infancy of printing ", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention.

He then wrote a seven-volume account in Greek known to us as the Jewish War ( Latin Bellum Judaicum or De Bello Judaico ).

This treatise ( Della pittura ) was also known in Latin as De Pictura, and it relied in its scientific content on classical optics in determining perspective as a geometric instrument of artistic and architectural representation.

An Italian translation of De pictura ( Della pittura ) was published in 1436, one year after the original Latin version and addressed Filippo Brunelleschi in the preface.

The result was his major work, a book written in Latin titled Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii ( literally Notes on Muscovite Affairs ), published in 1549.

Notes on Muscovite Affairs ( Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii ) ( 1549 ) was a Latin book by Baron Sigismund von Herberstein on the geography, history and customs of Muscovy ( the 16th century Russian state ).

* Latin text of Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii, together with the early German version

** Antonio Bonfini, Rerum ungaricarum libri xlv, editio septima ( in Latin ; ~ contemporary source ).

On May 15, 1891, Leo XIII issued an encyclical on political issues known as Rerum Novarum ( Latin: " About New Things ").

His leadership in Brazil inspired two Latin epics from 1647: Caspar Barlaeus ' Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum sub praefectura and Franciscus Plante's Mauritias.

The brand ( encompassing the visual identity ) is centred on the theme of " discovery ", led by the Latin motto from the coat of arms " Rerum Cognoscere Causas " – " to discover the causes of things ".

Rerum Novarum ( Latin for On the New Things ) is an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on May 15, 1891.

Its motto is Tempus Rerum Imperator, Latin for Time is the commander of ( all ) things.

The Edict on Maximum Prices ( also known as the Edict on Prices or the Edict of Diocletian ; in Latin Edictum De Pretiis Rerum Venalium ) was issued in 301 by Roman Emperor Diocletian.

Quadragesimo Anno ( Latin for “ In the 40th Year ”) is an encyclical written by Pope Pius XI, issued 15 May 1931, 40 years after Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum.

* Latin text of Varro Rerum Rusticarum de Agri Cultura

Lucretius ' De Rerum Natura serves as Virgil's primary Latin model in terms of genre and meter.