Inskrypcje łacińskie w Krakowie / The Latin inscriptions : Outside the Old Town

Piłsudskiego 12

Monumentis patriae naufragio ereptis

Native monuments saved from the historical storm.
The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum
Wenecja 1

Pax tibi Marce Evangelista meus

Peace to you, Mark, my Evangelist.

The tenement house called 'the Venetian House' comes from the 20th century. Above the entrance gate there is a mosaic of the winged lion - the symbol of Venice. This street is named 'Venice'.
Retoryka 7

Ars longa vita brevis
Art is long, life is short
The tenement house comes from the 19th century. The Latin sentence was translated by Horace of a phrase from Hippocrates Ό βίος βραχύς, ή δέ τέχνη μακρή, its Latin version is in the Seneca's treaty 'De brevitate vitae' (L) (On the shortness of life).

Festina lente

Make haste slowly

The second sentence on the same tenement house is the most favourite Emperor's Octavianus Augustus saying quoted by Suetonius in 'De vita Caesarum' (II, 25 – Divus Augustus) (The lives of the Caesars, The Life of Augustus), but the Roman Emperor, according Suetonius, used the Greek version: σπεύδε βραδέως, accordingly Latin 'Festina lente'.
Retoryka 9

Faber est suae quisque fortunae

Each person is the architect of his own fortune.

The tenement house comes from the 19th century. The maxim is a fragment of a lost poem by Appius Claudius Caecus. He was a Roman consul twice and a famous censor. He was also the author of the set of maxims.
Zwierzyniecka 15

Deus si nobiscum quis contra nos

If God is for us who can be against us.

The tenement house comes from the 20th century. A quotation is from Saint Paul, Romans (8, 31). You can see the same quotation on the Wawel Hill and Karmelicka 35

Karmelicka 19

Per angusta ad augusta

Through adversity to greatness

The building comes from the 14th century. The inscription is above the gate of the Carmelites monastery.

Karmelicka 35

Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos
If God is for us who can be against us.

The tenement house comes from the 19th century. A quotation is from Saint Paul, Romans (8, 31). You can see the same quotation on the Wawel Hill and Zwierzyniecka 15.
Rynek Kleparski 15 / św. Filipa 16

The corner house comes from the 20th century. Under this address there are three sentences two Latin and one Greek.

Rynek Kleparski 15

Per multis suis peregrinationibus rei aedificandi peritus.

During his many travels in the art of building experienced.

św. Filipa 16

Amor patriae suprema lex esto.

Let love of the nativeland be the supreme law

Νοΰς πάντα διεκόσμησεν

[read: Nus panta diekosmesen]

Mind arranged everything

The only one for now Greek maxim found on the walls of Cracow.

Helclów 2, The House of Seniors

On the mould of the first floor there are 5 inscriptions, the quotations from the Bible,

Misericordes misericordiam consequentur. Mat.V.7
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Exaudita est oratio tua et elemosynae tuae commemoratae sunt in conspectu Dei.
Ac. Ap. X. 31
Your prayer has been heard and your gifts to the poor have been remembered before God.

Estote misericordes. Luc. VI. 36
Be merciful

Nomen eorum vivit in generationem et laudem sunt in eorum nuntiet ecclesia.
Eccle XLIV. 14.15
...but their name liveth for evermore ... and the congregation will shew forth their praise.

Pauper et inops laudabunt nomen tuum. Psal. LXIII. 21

The poor and needy shall praise thy name.

Radziwiłłowska 8 b
Vivos voco
I call the living

An old church bell inscription is on the cartouche on the facade of the first floor. Radziwiłłowska 8b is just around the corner of the building Radziwiłłowska 8.
Rakowicka 27, the University of Economics
Ora et labora
Pray and work