Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: January 25

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HODIE: ante diem octavum Kalendas Februarias

ANIMAL PROVERB:

Equi dentes inspicere donati.
To look at the teeth of a gift horse.

DISTICHA LATINA:

Quae dilata fuit iam longo tempore, tandem
   Peccati poenam qui meruere ferunt.
[English]

LATIN LOLCATS:

Fames artium magistra.
Hunger is the teacher of skills.




Quo altior gradus, tanto profundior casus.
The higher the station, the greater the fall.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Piscator et Calamus

Latin version and English version(s)




Simius Rex et Vulpes
Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

The Iliad by Alfred J. Church




An argosy of fables by Frederic Cooper