Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: October 6

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HODIE: pridie Nonas Octobres

ANIMAL PROVERB:

Pelle sub agnina latitat mens saepe lupina.
Beneath the lamb skin often lurks a wolfish mind.

DISTICHA LATINA:

Cursus fatorum nescit mens ulla virorum;
   Solius est proprium scire futura Dei.
[English]

LATIN LOLCATS:

Sero in periculis est consilium quaerere.
When danger's arrived, it's late to be making a plan.




Per ardua surgo.
Through difficulties, I rise.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Lupus Esuriens et Nutrix
Latin version and English version(s)

Asinus et Tympana
Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

Fables and Fabulists Ancient and Modern
by Thomas Newbigging

Odysseus, The Hero of Ithaca

by Mary Burt