12/28/2022 0 Comments Semel iterum, alea jacta estTiny Mottoes: Today's tiny motto is: Veritas praevalebit (English: The truth will prevail).ģ-Word Proverbs Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Culmen honoris lubricum (English: The pinnacle of honor is slippery)Īudio Latin Proverb: Today's audio Latin proverb is In idem flumen bis non descendimus (English: We do not go down into the same river twice). TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at Schoolhouse Widgets. GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Gaisford's Paroemiographi Graeci and Hulme's Proverb Lore. MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Struthiocamelus et Gallina, a story about an ostrich that wanted to fly. MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The NEW fables with images are Upupa ab Aquila Honorata, a story about the hoopoe, known as "Stinkvogel," "Stink-Bird" in German, and Apes Duae Involantes, a story about two bees and their differing strategies. Here's one of the sayings you can find in that essay: Sapiens contra omnes arma fert, cum cogitat, "The wise man, when he thinks, bears weapons against all."įABULAE FACILES: The NEW easy-to-read fable is Viatores et Pons, a funny story about a Boeotian, a Corinthian and an Athenian crossing over a bridge at night.įABULAE FACILES WIDGET: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Porcellus et Testamentum, a hilarious story about a greedy little pig. VERBUM WIDGET: The word from the daily widget is ARMA - which also has a brief essay at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Fumum fugiens, in ignem incidi, "Fleeing the smoke, I fell into the fire." VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's NEW word is FUMUS - read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here is one of the items in today's list: Vincit qui se vincit, "He is victorious who is victorious over himself" (a positive perspective on the notion that we are each our own worst enemy). SCALA SAPIENTIAE: Today you can find sayings that go up to Diederich frequency ranking 159 - so the proverbs contain nothing but words found among the 159 most commonly used words in Latin. OWEN'S EPIGRAMS: The two new Owen epigrams, with Harvey's English versions, are Ad Martialem and Dupliciter miser es.ĪNECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Duo Viatores et Caupo Insidiosus, the famous story of the travelers and the roadside inn at Megara. You can keep up with the latest posts by using the RSS feed, or you might prefer to subscribe by email. Here is a round-up of today's blog posts - and for previous posts, check out the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives.
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