Connect the Dots 101

Val Kilmer, 1959-2025

Val Kilmer, Tombstone

  • Doc Holliday: “In vino veritas” (In wine there is truth) 
  • Johnny Ringo: “Age quod agis” (Do what you do) 
  • Doc Holliday: “Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego” (Let Apella the Jew believe, not I)*
  • Johnny Ringo: “Iuventus stultorum magister” (Youth is the teacher of fools) 
  • Doc Holliday: “In pace requiescat” (May he rest in peace) 
  • *
    A real or fictitious name of a Jew referred to by Horace as extremely credulous. Credulity seemed to the Roman writers synonymous with Jewish beliefs in general, and “Apella,” from Horace’s expression “credat Judæus Apella” (“Satires,” I. v. 100), became the by-name for a credulous man.

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