homo ego sum, homo tu es

Etymology

From homō (“man”) + ego (“I”) + sum (“I am”) the first person singular of esse (“to be”) and then homō (“man”) + tu (“you”) + es (“you are”) the second person singular of esse (“to be”). Literally "I am a man, you are a man"; from the play Trinummus by Plautus:

Homo ego sum, homo tu es.

Ita me amabit Iuppiter, neque te derisum advenio neque dignum puto.

Verum hoc quod dixi: meus me oravit filius, ut tuam sororem poscerem uxorem sibi.

I am a man, you are a man.

So may Jupiter love me, I have neither come to laugh at you, nor do I think you deserving of it!

But as to what I said, my son begged me to ask for your sister as his wife.

This is somewhat like the line by Terence in Heauton Timorumenos; homō sum, hūmānī nihil aliēnum a me putō (“I am a man, nothing that is human do I think unbecoming to me”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈho.moː ˈe.ɡo sum ˈho.moː tuː es/, [ˈhɔ.moː ˈɛ.ɡɔ sũ ˈhɔ.moː tuː ɛs]

Proverb

homō ego sum, homō tū es

1. I am a man, you are a man