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** The final mission of ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'' features the song ''Megalith-Agnus Dei'' as the soundtrack for destroying the Megalith superweapon[[labelnote:*]]Which appears to simply be a heavily-fortified ICBM base.[[/labelnote]]

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** The final mission of ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'' features the song ''Megalith-Agnus Dei'' as the soundtrack for destroying the Megalith superweapon[[labelnote:*]]Which appears to simply be a heavily-fortified ICBM base.[[/labelnote]][[/labelnote]]. The track takes lyrics from three texts from funeral Masses: the sequence "Dies Irae" ("Rex tremendae majestatis...") the form of "Agnus Dei" formerly sung in funerals ("Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, '''dona eis requiem'''") and the communion verse "Lux Aeterna" ("Lux aeterna luceat eis Domine cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es")



** The OminousLatinChanting in ''Release'' which plays during the final mission of ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'' contains lyrics taken directly from the latin hymn, ''Dies Irae''.

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** The OminousLatinChanting in ''Release'' which plays during the final mission of ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'' contains lyrics taken directly from the latin Latin hymn, ''Dies Irae''.
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* ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'': The three disciplines of [[ElementNumberFive aether]] as known to the Indrath Clan are referred to with Latin terms. These are aevum ("age"), spatium ("space"), and vivum ("life"), in short the powers to control time, space, and life itself.

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* Yale does this a lot in ''[[Creator/ZapDramatic Ambition]]''.

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* %%* Yale does this a lot in ''[[Creator/ZapDramatic Ambition]]''.


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* In ''VideoGame/HundredDays'', Luca reminds Emma to rest every once in a while by saying ''"mens sana in corpore sano"'' -- "a healthy mind in a healthy body".
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** This page was also called "Altum Videtur" (after the page quote) for a long time.
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* ''Fanfic/KnowsIfYouveBeenNaughty'': After Gaz [[DisproportionateRetribution brutally beats a man in the mall for desperately trying to buy her game off of her for his son]], the eyes of the snowmen in a nearby Christmas display [[RedEyesTakeWarning light up red]] as they declare in the VoiceOfTheLegion "Krampus Venturus Est", which loosely translates to "Krampus is coming".
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' often has Latin sprinkled about, usually in situations where people are trying to sound pretentious. Examples include the City Watch's motto (Fabricati Diem, Pvnc) to a joke played by the Unseen University's wizards on a foreign diplomat by awarding him an honorary doctorate in "Adamus cum Flabello Dulci"[[labelnote:Lat.]]Sweet Fanny Adams[[/labelnote]].

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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' often has Latin sprinkled about, usually in situations where people are trying to sound pretentious. Examples include the City Watch's motto (Fabricati Diem, Pvnc) Pvnc[[labelnote:Lat.]] which is supposed to mean "Make My Day, Punk", but is actually just gibberish[[/labelnote]]) to a joke played by the Unseen University's wizards on a foreign diplomat by awarding him an honorary doctorate in "Adamus cum Flabello Dulci"[[labelnote:Lat.]]Sweet Fanny Adams[[/labelnote]].
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* Most versions of the LISP programming language use NIL (short for ''nihil'', meaning "nothing") to represent logical false and/or the empty list. At one point in the development of LISP 1.5, T (the logical true value) was allegedly changed to VERITAS-NUMQUAM-PERIT ("truth never dies"), but that didn't stick.

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* Most versions of the LISP programming language use NIL (short for ''nihil'', meaning "nothing") to represent logical false and/or the empty list. At one point in the development of LISP 1.5, T (the logical true value) was allegedly changed to VERITAS-NUMQUAM-PERIT ("truth never dies"), but that didn't stick. Around the same time, a function for printing the system time named TEMPUS-FUGIT was added to MIT's CTSS version, though this didn't spread to other installations.
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** The mission leaders in ''Literature/TheLastHero'' for some reason put [[CosmicPlaything Rincewind]] in charge of coming up with a motto, which results in ''morituri nolumus mori'': "We who are about to die don't want to." Vetinari decides to keep it, reasoning it's actually a fitting description of a dangerous mission to stop an EarthShatteringKaboom.
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* ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': "Magistratus oportet servire populo" (The Police must serve The People).
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* Most versions of the LISP programming language use NIL (short for ''nihil'', meaning "nothing") to represent logical false and/or the empty list. At one point in the development of LISP 1.5, T (the logical true value) was allegedly changed to VERITAS-NUMQUAM-PERIT ("truth never dies"), but that didn't stick.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}'s national motto is ''Plus ultra'' (further beyond). It was also used by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

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