Latin
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Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes
Judgement and deliberation are the proper arts of the leader
Tacitus, Annales 3: 20

Rem acu tetigisti
You have hit it in the center [in archery]
Plautus

Rem tene, verba sequentur
Hold onto the subject, and the words will follow
Cato, advising the student orator

Romanus orbis ruit
The Roman world is collapsing
Jerome (c340-420), Epistulae 60:16

Martial

Rus in urbe
A little bit of country in the town
Martial, Epigrammata 12/57:21
originally referred to a mansion in the city, but with spacious grounds

 

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