The offspring of a lawful marriage does not more certainly know its mother than its father.

Partus sequitur ventrem.

The offspring follows the mother.

Pater est quem nuptiæ demonstrant.

He is the father whom the marriage demonstrates to be so.

Paterna paternis, materna maternis.

Paternal things belong to a father, maternal things to the mother.

Peccata contra naturam sunt gravissima.

Sins against nature are most heinous.

Pecunia dicitur a pecus, omnes enim veterum divitiæ in animalibus consistebant.