Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: August 29

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HODIE: ante diem quartum Kalendas Septembres

ANIMAL PROVERBS:

Cum vulpe habens commercium, dolos cave.
If you're doing business with a fox, beware of tricks.
(see Aesop's fable below)

Alis luporum catulos!
You're raising wolf-pups!

LATIN LOLCATS:

Neminem laede.

Harm no one.

Suo quisque studio gaudet.

Everybody rejoices in their own inclinations.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Corvus et Vulpes Adulatrix
Latin version and English version(s)

Grus et Lupus
Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

In Mythland by M. Helen Beckwith

Stories of the Old Romans

Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: August 26

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HODIE: ante diem septimum Kalendas Septembres

ANIMAL PROVERBS:

Domi leones, foris vulpes.
Lions at home, foxes outdoors.

Cicadae apem comparas.
You're comparing a bee to a cicada.

LATIN LOLCATS:

Qui multum habet, plus cupit.
He who has much wants more.




Ex socio cognoscitur vir.

You know a man by his companion.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Viatores Duo et Bipennis
Latin version and English version(s)

Harundo et Quercus
Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

Euripides's Alcestis
translated by George Theodoridis 

The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
by Padraic Colum 

Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: August 23

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HODIE: ante diem decimum Kalendas Septembres

ANIMAL PROVERBS:

Citius elephantem sub ala celes.
You'd be able to more quickly hide an elephant in your armpit.

Aquilam volare doces.
You're teaching an eagle to fly.

LATIN LOLCATS:

Vultus imago animi.
The face is the portrait of the soul.




Beatus qui invenit amicum verum.
Blessed is he who has found a true friend.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Hircus et Vulpes in Puteo
Latin version and English version(s)

Mors et Pauper
Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

Myths of Greece and Rome
by Hélène Adeline Guerber

The Odyssey for boys and girls
by Alfred J. Church

Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: August 20

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HODIE: ante diem tertium decimum Kalendas Septembres

ANIMAL PROVERBS:

Consonus esto lupis, cum quibus esse cupis.
Be of one voice with the wolves with whom you wish to be.

Decipula murem cepit.
The trap has caught the mouse.

LATIN LOLCATS:

Fruere die praesenti.
Enjoy the present day.




Numeri regunt mundum.

Numbers rule the world.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Pater, Filii, et Agrorum Cultura
Latin version and English version(s)

Canes et Corium
Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church

Greek and Roman Mythology by Jessie Tatlock

Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: August 17

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HODIE: ante diem sextum decimum Kalendas Septembres

ANIMAL PROVERBS:

Cicada cicadae cara, formicae formica.
One cicada is dear to another, and ant to ant.

Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.
A scared dog barks more fiercely than he bites.

LATIN LOLCATS:

Amor mundum fecit.
Love made the world.

Bene vixit qui bene latuit.
He has lived well who has kept well hidden.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Cervus et Cornua Eius
Latin version and English version(s)

Delphinus et Pisciculus

Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

The wisdom of the ancients and New Atlantis
by Francis Bacon

The word-picture fable book,
or, Old Aesop in a new dress

Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: August 14

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HODIE: ante diem undevicesimum Kalendas Septembres

ANIMAL PROVERBS:

E vipera rursum vipera nascitur.
From one snake yet another is born.

A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupus.
A precipice in front of you; a wolf behind.

LATIN LOLCATS:

Fallaces sunt rerum species.
The appearances of things are deceiving.

Vinum animi speculum.
Wine is the mirror of the soul.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Ciconia et Vulpecula
Latin version and English version(s)

Struthiocamelus Perfidus
Latin version and English version

BOOKS ONLINE:

Old Greek Nature Stories
by F. A. Farrar

The Bacchae of Euripides
translated by Gilbert Murray

Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: August 11

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HODIE: ante diem tertium Idus Augustas

ANIMAL PROVERBS:

Bubo canit lusciniae.
The owl is serenading the nightingale.

Et canis in somnis leporis vestigia latrat.
And the dog in his dreams bays at the rabbit's tracks.

LATIN LOLCATS:

Animus omnia vincit.
Courage conquers all things.




Fortunae cetera mando.
I leave the rest to Lady Luck.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Ursus, Leo, et Vulpes
Latin version and English version(s)

 Iuppiter et Vulpes
Latin version and English version

BOOKS ONLINE:

Oedipus, King of Thebes
translated by Gilbert Murray

The Story of Alexander
by Robert Steele