Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent=--That which belongs to others pleases us most; that which belongs to us pleases others more.
Aliena vitia in oculis habemus; a tergo nostra sunt=--We keep the faults of others before our eyes; our own behind our backs.
Summa bona putas, aliena vivere quadra=--You think it the chief good to live on another's crumbs.
Qui genus jactat suum aliena laudat=--He who boasts of his descent boasts of what he owes to others.
Improbis aliena virtus semper formidolosa est=--To wicked men the virtue of others is always matter of dread.
Vivimus aliena fiducia=--We live by trusting one another.
Aliena optimum frui insania=--It is best to profit by the madness of other people.
Aliena opprobria sæpe / Absterrent vitiis=--We 20 are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Aliena negotia centum / Per caput, et circa saliunt latus=--A hundred affairs of other people leap through my head and at my side.
Teneros animosaliena opprobria sæpe / Absterrent vitiis=--The disgrace of others often deters tender minds from vice.
Orlando arrived in the forest not many days after Ganimed andAliena came there, and (as has been before related) bought the shepherd’s cottage.
The remedy Ganimed proposed, and the counsel he gave him, was that Orlando should come every day to the cottage where he and his sister Aliena dwelt.
Oliver went and told the whole story to Ganymede and Aliena, and Aliena was so charmed with his manly ways of confessing his faults, that she fell in love with him at once.
Oliver went back to his brother and told him all this, saying, "I love Aliena so well that I will give up my estates to you and marry her, and live here as a shepherd.
By the way there was much good chat with Montanus about his loves, he resolving Aliena that Phoebe was the fairest shepherdess in all France, and that in his eye her beauty was equal with the nymphs.
Montanus had no sooner ended his sonnet, but Corydon with a low courtesy rose up and went with his fellow, and shut their sheep in the folds; and after returning to Aliena and Ganymede, conducted them home weary to his poor cottage.
Aliena thanked Corydon greatly, and presently sate her down and Ganymede by her.
Orlando had not been in the forest many days before Ganimed and Alienaarrived there, and (as has been before related) bought the shepherd's cottage.
Something that hath a reference to my state: No longer Celia, but Aliena Ros.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aliena" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
