Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: March 3

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HODIE: ante diem quintum Nonas Martias

ANIMAL PROVERB:

Una hirundo non facit ver.
One swallow does not make a spring.

DISTICHA LATINA:

Vincere vis? Labor adsit; amat victoria curam:
   Vinces, si vincet non tua terga labor.
[English]

LATIN LOLCATS:

Gratia referenda.

A favor should be returned.

Quod est venturum, sapiens quasi praesens cavet.
The wise man is wary of what is to come
as if it were already here.

AESOP'S FABLES:

Onager Asino Invidens

Latin version and English version(s)




Simia et Piscatores

Latin version and English version(s)

BOOKS ONLINE:

Homer: The Odyssey
translated by Tony Kline




The Phantom World
by Augustin Calmet