Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: February 21

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HODIE: ante diem nonum Kalendas Martias

ANIMAL PROVERB:

Pica certat cum luscinia.
A magpie is competing with the nightingale.

DISTICHA LATINA:

Quanta sit in rebus mora, nil curato, gerendis;
Sat cito confectum, quod bene fiet, erit.
[English]

LATIN LOLCATS:

Mente manuque.
By thought and hand.




Necessitas dat ingenium.
Necessity bestows ingenuity.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Navigantes et Gubernator

Latin version and English version(s)




Cervus Oculo Captus

Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable




Gems from fable land by W.O. Bourne