Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: May 31

Here is a round-up of today's proverbs and fables. You can keep up with the latest posts by using the RSS feed, or you might prefer to subscribe by email.

HODIE: pridie Kalendas Iunias

ANIMAL PROVERBS:

Dat deus immiti cornua curta bovi.
God gives short horns to the savage bull.

Furem fur cognoscit, et lupum lupus.
Thief knows thief, and wolf knows wolf.

LATIN LOLCATS:

Metus cum venit, rarum habet somnus locum.
With the onset of fear, there's little room for sleep.

Beatus ille homo qui vivit sua domo.
Blessed is he who lives in his own home.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Ranae Duae Vicinae
Latin version and English version(s)

Cervus et Vitis
Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

 Wonder Stories from Herodotus
by G. H. Boden and W. Barrington D'Almeida
online book link

The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb
online book link

Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: May 28

Here is a round-up of today's proverbs and fables, and thanks also for the encouraging emails about reviving the Bestiaria. You can keep up with the latest posts by using the RSS feed, or you might prefer to subscribe by email.

HODIE: ante diem quintum Kalendas Iunias

ANIMAL PROVERBS:

Asinus asino, sus sui pulcher, et suum cuique pulchrum.
One donkey is beautiful to another, pig to pig, and to each their own is beautiful.

Aquila non capit muscas.
An eagle doesn't catch flies.

LATIN LOLCATS:

Auri caecus amor ducit in omne nefas.
The blind love of gold leads to every crime.

Discat, qui nescit, nam sic sapientia crescit.
Let him learn who does not know, for thus does knowledge grow.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Satyrus et Viator
Latin version and English version(s)

Avara et Gallina
Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

Stories of Old Greece by Emma M. Firth

Aesop's Fables Told to the Children by Lena Dalkeith

Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: May 25

I'm back again! The past few months, and the past couple years, have been pretty topsy-turvy with family stuff, but I'm going to try a new approach with the Bestiaria this summer so that it lines up with some other projects I am working on this summer. Let's see if I can manage to bring this back to life for the summer at least!

As always, you can keep up with the latest posts by using the RSS feed, or you might prefer to subscribe by email.


HODIE: ante diem octavum Kalendas Iunias.


ANIMAL PROVERBS: This is a new project I've just started to go along with some animal story work I am doing this summer. :-)

A bove maiori discit arare minor.

The younger ox learns to plow from the elder.

Cochlea consiliis, in factis esto volucris

Be a snail in your planning, have wings in your deeds.

LATIN LOLCATS:

Cave canem!

Beware of dog!

Fortis cadere, cedere non potest.

The brave man can fall but not fail.

AESOP'S FABLES: I'll be pairing up fables from my old Mille Fabulae et Una book with a website where I've collected fable illustrations and English versions of the stories.

Vulpes et Pardus

Latin version and English version(s)

Astrologus Stellas Contemplans

Latin version and English version(s)

FREE BOOKS: These are books from my Freebookapalooza online book collection, which now contains over 1300 items:

Trips to the Moon by Lucian

Stories of the Ancient Greeks by Charles D. Shaw

... plus a special treat from the Latin LOLBaby blog:

Nullum magnum ingenium

sine mixtura dementiae fuit.

There was never any great genius

without some madness mixed in.