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-Italian: 1)Meraviglioso (=wonderful, gorgeous-the plural should be: i meravigliosi=the wonderful ones) 2)Indovino (=the fortune-teller) 3)Alta pressione (=high pressure, it also refers to a situation in great distress) 4)argento vivo (=quicksilver) 5)teste matte (=crazy heads) 6)La morte vi attende(= death is waiting for you) 7)Attenti alle spalle! (=watch your back!) 8)tre/quattro/cinque/sei strani ragazzi (=three/four/five/six strange guys - it depends on the number!) 9)Sopra la panca la capra campa (=upon the bench the goat survives- it has no sense, but it's the beginning of a very famous italian tongue twister: "sopra la panca la capra campa, sotto la panca la capra crepa"= "Upon the bench the goat survives, under the bench the goat dies") -Latin: 1)Horror vacui (=fear of the void) 2)Draco dormiens (=sleeping dragon; the plural is: dracones dormientes)/ or the phrase:Draco dormiens numquam titillandus (=the sleeping dragon must never be disturbed) 3)Alea jacta est (=the dice have been played; it means that nothing else can be done to change the things- this was pronuceb by Giulius Caesar) 4)Ferro ignique(lit=iron and fire; it derives from the latin expression "to put under iron and fire" meaning "to destroy everything with sword and flames") 5)post mortem quid valere? (=what is it worth after death? - it's part of a latin phrase "studere,studere, post mortem quid valere? sed in vitam quid facere?" = "studying, studying, what is it worth after death? but what do you do in your life?") 6)XXXXXX regnante (XXXXXX is a name you can decide= during the reign of xxxxxxx) 7)Apertis verbis(=very clearly, to say something in a very "understandable" way) 8)Erga omnes(=directed to everyone) 9)Ex abrupto(=all of a sudden) 10)Gutta cavat lapidem(=the drop digs in the rock) 11)Multa paucis (=a lot in a few; it means that you do or say a lot of things in a single action/phrase) 12)Omnia mutantur (=everything changes; the ancient greek version of this one is "panta rei")