Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: October 16

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Something new: I created a little website about the Olympian gods and goddesses in Aesop's fables (it's a digital handout for a guest speaker thing I'm doing this week): Aesop on Olympus.

HODIE: ante diem septimum decimum Kalendas Novembres

ANIMAL PROVERB:

Inest et formicae bilis.
Even the ant has a temper.

DISTICHA LATINA:

Omnia fert aetas; naturam, nomina, formam
   Fortunamque solet vertere longa dies.
[English]

LATIN LOLCATS:

Nemo sine sapientia beatus est.
No one is happy without wisdom.




Amor vincit feros.
Love conquers wild beasts.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Adolescens Piger
Latin version and English version(s)

Uxor et Vir Ovum Pariens
Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

The Mythology of Greece and Rome
by O. Seemann

Lucian's Dialogues

by Howard Williams