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TODAY'S FABLES: Here are today's fables from the Ictibus Felicibus project. These fables ALL have long marks, plus stress marks for easy reading, and the poems have meter marks, too, along with an easy-to-read prose presentation of the story:
- Capra et Lac, the story of a disagreeable goat.
- Canis et Thesaurus, in which a vulture rebukes a greedy dog.
- Aquila et Pica, the story of an ambitious jaybird.
- Vulpes ac Lupus et Equus, a wonderful fable about a horse who cleverly outwits a wolf and a fox - the wolf is the one who comes out the worst, of course!
- Taurus et Hircus, the story of a bull who, fleeing a lion, crossed paths with a goat.
Quod orsūs ēgregiōs fine turpī maculāveris, et in noxam officium tuum verteris, fēcistī quod capra, cum lactis suī mulctrālia ferit et opēs propriās calce profundit.TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: You can get access to ALL the "proverb of the day scripts" (also available as random proverb scripts) at the SchoolhouseWidgets.com website.
Tiny Proverbs: Today's tiny proverb is: Alta pete (English: Seek lofty things).
3-Word Mottoes Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Pulchre, bene, recte (English: Nicely, rightly, and correctly - of course bene is usually rendered as "well" - but I wanted to use -ly each time, just as all three of the Latin adverbs are formed with -e).
Latin Animal Proverb: Today's animal proverb is Unicus filius infatuatur, unicus sus impinguatur (English: An only son grows foolish, an only pig grows fat).
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Vae soli (English: Woe to the one who is alone - a great way to remember that the dative singular of solus is soli!).
Proper Name Proverb from Erasmus: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Phormionis torus (English: The bed of Phormio; from Adagia 2.9.66 - Phormio was a vigorous general who loved the military life and slept on the ground with this men, which is to say, without a bed at all!).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Ὁ ἔχων πολὺ πέπερι, τίθησι κἂν λαχάνοις (English: He who has lots of pepper can put it even on his vegetables... a good reminder of what a precious rarity pepper was in days one by!).
For today's image, here's an illustration from a 1621 edition of Alciato's emblems for the emblem Capra et Lac:
