EVAN MILLNER'S AESOP. I'm sure many of you are familiar with Evan Millner's wonderful work with the Latinum podcast and his current work developing Latin videos at YouTube. He sent me a note today about his latest series of videos, Lectiones Primae, which feature some Aesop's fables. Take a look/listen!
HODIE: pridie Kalendas Octobres (and yes, you can have your own Roman Google Calendar).
VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's word is VIDEO - read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Aliud aliis videtur optimum, "To some people one thing seems best, to other people, some other thing."
MILLE FABULAE: New materials at the blog include lots more illustrated fables, including this lovely illustration from the Medici Aesop for a Fortuna fable. This is also where you can download your free PDF copy of the Mille Fabulae et Una book.
FABULAE FACILES: The new easy-to-read fable is Musca et Quadrigae, the story of a fly with a very high opinion of himself.
PODCASTS: Today's Latin audio fable is Cocleae et Puer , the story of the boy who was cooking some snails.
ENGLISH AESOP: Today's English fables are from Sir Roger L'Estrange, Wright's translation of La Fontaine and Pratt's Aesop for children.
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at SchoolhouseWidgets.com.
3-Word Mottoes: Today's 3-word motto is Secundum naturam vivo (English: I live according to nature).
3-Word Proverbs: Today's 3-word proverb is Quod tuum, tene (English: Hold on to what is yours).
Rhyming Proverbs: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis (English: Against the power of death there is no remedy in the garden).
Vulgate Verse: Today's verse is Stultus verba multiplicat (Ecc. 10:14). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
Elizabethan Proverb Commentary: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Taverner: Principium dimidium totius: The beginninge is halfe the hole. There be manie greate delayers. Longe they be ere they can be perswaded to set upon an honest act, so manie perils they cast. To morrow, to morrow they say wee will begin, but this to morrow is ever comming but never present, wherfore who so with good courage ventureth uppon his matters, hat alredy half done.
Today's Poem: Today's poem is from the rhyming couplets collected by Wegeler, with a word list at NoDictionaries.com:
Irritare canem noli dormire volentem,English: "Do not awake a dog who wants to sleep, and do not reawaken anger after it has been hidden for a long time." The wonderful rhymes here make this a very nice version of our more pedestrian "Let sleeping dogs lie" in English.
Nec moveas iram post tempora longa latentem.
Today's image is Barlow's illustration for 829. Rusticus et Coluber. Rusticus repertum in altiori nive colubrum, frigore prope enectum, domum tulit et ad focum adiecit. Coluber, ab igni vires virusque recipiens et non amplius flammam ferens, totum tugurium sibilando infecit. Accurrit rusticus et, correpta sude, verbis verberibusque cum eo iniuriam expostulat, “Num haec est quam retulit gratia, eripiendo vitam illi cui vitam debuit?” (source)
