Essay #33: Amator
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Latin Without Latin: Amator
Here's a new Latin Without Latin essay! The previous two essays were Essay #31: Iram Prudentia Vincit and Essay #32: Omnia Vincit Amor (you can see a complete list of essays here). And here is the new essay:
Round-Up: June 3
Here is a round-up of today's proverbs and fables - and for previous posts, check out the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives. On alternating days this summer, I'm posting a separate disticha round-up, too!
HODIE: ante diem tertium Nonas Iunias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Faustulus Finding Romulus and Remus; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Praevide, ne praeveniare (English: Foresee so that you are not forestalled).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Danda venia lapso (English: You should forgiven someone who has slipped up).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Sunt asini multi solum bino pede fulti (English: There are many donkeys, except that they stand on two legs).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Nonne ad unum locum properant omnia? (Ecc. 6:6). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
ELIZABETHAN PROVERBS: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Conybeare: Bos in lingua: A proverbe touchinge them which dare not speake the truth, or will not bicause they have receaved money to holde their peace. For the Athenienses used a certayne coyne of money with an oxe figured thereon.
TODAY'S FABLES and STORIES:
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Utrum Anchilles an Homerus, containing the wise words of Themistocles, the great Athenian general and politician.
FABULAE FACILES WIDGET: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Canis Aquam Timens, a fable on the theme of "once bitten, twice shy" (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE WIDGET: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Lupus et Sus, the story of the wolf who wanted to play midwife to the sow.
MILLE FABULAE: The "chunk" of Mille Fabulae et Una today is Fable 921, Viatores Iuxta Maris Litus, through Fable 930, Pater et Filii Litigantes, including Viatores Duo et Bipennis, a fable about first-person singular v. first-person plural: Duo una iter faciebant; horum unus repertam bipennem sustulit. Tum alter hortabatur, ne sic loqueretur ut diceret, ‘Ego bipennem inveni,’ sed sic, ‘Nos invenimus.’ Hoc ei, qui sustulerat bipennem, non persuadebatur. Mox visis quibusdam, qui se insequerentur cum clamore et concitato cursu, esse eos qui amisissent bipennem coniiciens, “Periimus,” inquit. At alter “Dices,” inquit, “nunc quoque ‘perii,’ non ‘periimus’ - quippe cum ‘invenimus’ nolueris dicere, sed ‘inveni.’”
HODIE: ante diem tertium Nonas Iunias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Faustulus Finding Romulus and Remus; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Praevide, ne praeveniare (English: Foresee so that you are not forestalled).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Danda venia lapso (English: You should forgiven someone who has slipped up).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Sunt asini multi solum bino pede fulti (English: There are many donkeys, except that they stand on two legs).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Nonne ad unum locum properant omnia? (Ecc. 6:6). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
ELIZABETHAN PROVERBS: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Conybeare: Bos in lingua: A proverbe touchinge them which dare not speake the truth, or will not bicause they have receaved money to holde their peace. For the Athenienses used a certayne coyne of money with an oxe figured thereon.
TODAY'S FABLES and STORIES:
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Utrum Anchilles an Homerus, containing the wise words of Themistocles, the great Athenian general and politician.
FABULAE FACILES WIDGET: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Canis Aquam Timens, a fable on the theme of "once bitten, twice shy" (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE WIDGET: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Lupus et Sus, the story of the wolf who wanted to play midwife to the sow.
MILLE FABULAE: The "chunk" of Mille Fabulae et Una today is Fable 921, Viatores Iuxta Maris Litus, through Fable 930, Pater et Filii Litigantes, including Viatores Duo et Bipennis, a fable about first-person singular v. first-person plural: Duo una iter faciebant; horum unus repertam bipennem sustulit. Tum alter hortabatur, ne sic loqueretur ut diceret, ‘Ego bipennem inveni,’ sed sic, ‘Nos invenimus.’ Hoc ei, qui sustulerat bipennem, non persuadebatur. Mox visis quibusdam, qui se insequerentur cum clamore et concitato cursu, esse eos qui amisissent bipennem coniiciens, “Periimus,” inquit. At alter “Dices,” inquit, “nunc quoque ‘perii,’ non ‘periimus’ - quippe cum ‘invenimus’ nolueris dicere, sed ‘inveni.’”
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Latin Without Latin: Omnia Vincit Amor
Here's a new Latin Without Latin essay! The previous two essays were Essay #30: Fallit Imago Sui and Essay #31: Iram Prudentia Vincit (you can see a complete list of essays here). And here is the new essay:
Essay #32: Omnia Vincit Amor
Disticha Round-Up: June 2
The distichs below are all keyed to the vocabulary in the DCC Latin vocabulary list: DCC Latin Vocabulary Distichs. Plus, don't forget to check out the "Latin Without Latin" distich essays - there will be a new one every day this summer.
For vocabulary and additional information about each poem, click on the title.
Malum Infinitum
Mille modis morimur mortales, nascimur uno;
Sunt hominum morbi mille, sed una salus.
Ars
Naturae in gremio Deus artes condidit, ut sit
Usque quod acquirat, quodque requirat homo.
Ad Lectores
Non cuivis lectori, auditorive placebo;
Lector et auditor non mihi quisque placet.
In Momum
Nil in te video quod amem, laudemve, probemve;
Nil in te video, Mome, quod invideo.
Munera
Munera ne numera, miseris quaecunque dedisti;
In caelis numerat, munerat illa Deus.
Amor
Nullus amor sine spe (dubius qua vivit amator),
Nulla placet sine re spes mihi, res sine te.
Virtus
Non est in verbis virtus, at rebus inhaeret:
Res sunt, non voces, spes, amor atque fides.
Opinio
Credere vult nemo, credi sibi quisque; fidemque,
Sicut amicitias, utilitate probat.
Omnibus incertis....
Omnibus incertis nihil est incertius hora
Mortis, morte nihil certius esse potest.
Nusquam tuta fides...
Nusquam tuta fides; non omnibus omnia credas:
Falletur subito, qui cito crediderit.
For vocabulary and additional information about each poem, click on the title.
Malum Infinitum
Mille modis morimur mortales, nascimur uno;
Sunt hominum morbi mille, sed una salus.
Ars
Naturae in gremio Deus artes condidit, ut sit
Usque quod acquirat, quodque requirat homo.
Ad Lectores
Non cuivis lectori, auditorive placebo;
Lector et auditor non mihi quisque placet.
In Momum
Nil in te video quod amem, laudemve, probemve;
Nil in te video, Mome, quod invideo.
Munera
Munera ne numera, miseris quaecunque dedisti;
In caelis numerat, munerat illa Deus.
Amor
Nullus amor sine spe (dubius qua vivit amator),
Nulla placet sine re spes mihi, res sine te.
Virtus
Non est in verbis virtus, at rebus inhaeret:
Res sunt, non voces, spes, amor atque fides.
Opinio
Credere vult nemo, credi sibi quisque; fidemque,
Sicut amicitias, utilitate probat.
Omnibus incertis....
Omnibus incertis nihil est incertius hora
Mortis, morte nihil certius esse potest.
Nusquam tuta fides...
Nusquam tuta fides; non omnibus omnia credas:
Falletur subito, qui cito crediderit.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Latin Without Latin: Iram Prudentia Vincit
Here's a new Latin Without Latin essay! The previous two essays were Essay #29: Partes Anni and Essay #30: Fallit Imago Sui (you can see a complete list of essays here). And here is the new essay:
Essay #31: Iram Prudentia Vincit
Round-Up: June 1
Here is a round-up of today's proverbs and fables - and for previous posts, check out the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives. I'm using Google+ a lot these days - highly recommended as a thought-provoking place to hang out online!
HODIE: Kalendae Iuniae, the Kalends of June!
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Venus Tries to Detain Adonis ; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Carpe diem (English: Seize the day).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Pax, copia, sapientia (English: Peace, abundance, and wisdom).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Vae miseris ovibus, iudex lupus est (English: Alas for the wretched sheep: the judge is a wolf).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Noctuas Athenas (English: He's carrying owls to Athens - which is something like carrying coals to Newcastle).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Bellerophontes litteras adfert (English: He's carrying the letters of Bellerophon; from Adagia 2.6.82 - Bellerophon, of course, was carrying a command for his own execution!).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ἔνεστι κἂν μύρμηκι χολή (English: Even the ant has its bile, i.e. has a temper!).
TODAY'S FABLES and STORIES:
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Memoria et Oblivio, an anecdote about Themistocles and Simonides.
FABULAE FACILES WIDGET: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Ranae et Sol, a story about the frogs and climate change (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The "chunk" of Mille Fabulae et Una today is Fable 911, Fur et Mater Eius, through Fable 921, Viator et Lapides, including Sceleratus et Daemon, a story about a wicked man who tries even the devil's patience.
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is The Woman and the Hen, a very fat hen, in fact!.
MILLE FABULAE WIDGET: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Philosophus et Cucurbita, a wonderful parable about the perfection of the natural world: Sunt qui vel mundi opificem sapientissimum reprehendere audeant. Cum quidam cucurbitam grandiorem tenui in caule humi iacentem videret, “Hem!” inquit; “non in caule tenui, sed in alta quercu ego eam suspendissem.” Abiit deinde, et sub quercu aliqua obdormiscebat. Qui cum dormiret, ventus glandes innumeras a quercu decutiebat, quarum aliqua nasum hominis vehementius tetigit. Expergefactus ille, cum sanguinem e naso profluentem cerneret, “Quid,” inquit, “si haec cucurbita fuisset, vix equidem viverem amplius? Deum profecto sentio sapientissime atque optime mundum disposuisse.”
HODIE: Kalendae Iuniae, the Kalends of June!
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Venus Tries to Detain Adonis ; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Carpe diem (English: Seize the day).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Pax, copia, sapientia (English: Peace, abundance, and wisdom).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Vae miseris ovibus, iudex lupus est (English: Alas for the wretched sheep: the judge is a wolf).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Noctuas Athenas (English: He's carrying owls to Athens - which is something like carrying coals to Newcastle).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Bellerophontes litteras adfert (English: He's carrying the letters of Bellerophon; from Adagia 2.6.82 - Bellerophon, of course, was carrying a command for his own execution!).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ἔνεστι κἂν μύρμηκι χολή (English: Even the ant has its bile, i.e. has a temper!).
TODAY'S FABLES and STORIES:
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Memoria et Oblivio, an anecdote about Themistocles and Simonides.
FABULAE FACILES WIDGET: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Ranae et Sol, a story about the frogs and climate change (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The "chunk" of Mille Fabulae et Una today is Fable 911, Fur et Mater Eius, through Fable 921, Viator et Lapides, including Sceleratus et Daemon, a story about a wicked man who tries even the devil's patience.
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is The Woman and the Hen, a very fat hen, in fact!.
MILLE FABULAE WIDGET: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Philosophus et Cucurbita, a wonderful parable about the perfection of the natural world: Sunt qui vel mundi opificem sapientissimum reprehendere audeant. Cum quidam cucurbitam grandiorem tenui in caule humi iacentem videret, “Hem!” inquit; “non in caule tenui, sed in alta quercu ego eam suspendissem.” Abiit deinde, et sub quercu aliqua obdormiscebat. Qui cum dormiret, ventus glandes innumeras a quercu decutiebat, quarum aliqua nasum hominis vehementius tetigit. Expergefactus ille, cum sanguinem e naso profluentem cerneret, “Quid,” inquit, “si haec cucurbita fuisset, vix equidem viverem amplius? Deum profecto sentio sapientissime atque optime mundum disposuisse.”
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