Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: September 27

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HODIE: ante diem quintum Kalendas Octobres

ANIMAL PROVERBS:

Ornat spina rosas, mella tegunt apes.
The thorn adorns the roses; bees cover the honey.

Fac nidum unum una in arbore.
Make but one nest in one tree.

LATIN LOLCATS:

Somnus donum deorum gratissimum.
Sleep is the most welcome gift of the gods.




Ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum. 
A wise person corrects their own failings

by observing the failings of others.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Hirundo et Aviculae
Latin version and English version(s)

Pater et Filii Litigantes
Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

Children of the Dawn: Old Tales of Greece
by Elsie Finnimore Buckley




Stories from the Iliad, or, The Siege of Troy
by Jeannie Lang