pretiumque et causa laboris

The prize and the cause of our labour

Notes

Motto of Burnley Football Club; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, 4.739 (Latin/English): "The Tale of Perseus and Andromeda": resoluta catenis incedit virgo, pretiumque et causa laboris. ("freed of her chains the virgin approaches, cause and reward of the enterprise.")

Words

causa – case, case at law, cause, condition, interest, law, motive, pretext, reason, situation
labor – distress, exertion, fatigue, glide, hardip, hardship, labor, slide, slip away, to sink, to slip, toil, work
labo – begin to fall, sink, to totter