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TODAY'S POEM: Here is today's little poem, from the Poetry Widget. Today's poem is one of the rhyming verses collected by Wegeler, with a word list at NoDictionaries.com as usual:
Fertur in conviviis Vinus, Vina, Vinum,English: "Vinus, Vina and Vinum are brought to the banquet; the masculine Vinus is not right, nor is the feminine Vina, but in the neuter form Vinum, good wine, makes a cleric speak the very finest Latinum." I was delighted to see that in addition to the version I found in Wegeler, there are all kinds of variations on this bit of medieval verse; you can see some of them here at the ChoralWiki, because they form part of a 16th-century composition by Orlando di Lasso.
Masculinum displicet atque femininum,
Sed in neutro genere vinum, bonum vinum
Loqui facit clericum optime Latinum.
TODAY'S TWITTER:
Vita Caesaris: You can see my IVLIVS CAESAR feed with a sentence from Plutarch's Life of Caesar each day in Greek, Latin and English. Today's Latin portion continues a description of Caesar's alienation from the Senate: De reliquis senatoribus perpauci in Curiam exinde uentitabant; ceteri indignitate eorum quae fiebant moti publico abstinebant.
Proverbiis Pipilo: You can see my Proverbia feed of Latin proverbs which I "tweet" while I am online each day (in English, too). Here's one from today about wealth and wickedness: Pluit vitium ubi pluit aurum (English: When it rains gold, it rains wickedness).
TODAY'S PROVERBS:
You can get access to all the proverb of the day scripts (also available as random proverb scripts) at the SchoolhouseWidgets.com website.
Audio Latin Proverb of the Day: Today's audio Latin proverb is Dat verba in ventos (English: He's pouring words out on the winds). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.
Maxims of Publilius Syrus: Today's proverb from Publilius Syrus is: Ad paenitendum properat, cito qui iudicat (English: Someone who is quick to judge will soon regret it).
Rhyming Proverbs: Today's proverb in Leonine verse form is one of my very favorites! Dum canis os rodit, socium, quem diligit, odit (English: While the dog is gnawing a bone, he hates the companion whom he had loved).
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Adulterinae plantae non dabunt radices altas (English: Hybrid plants will not produce deep roots).
Proverbium Perbreve of the Day: Today's two-word proverb is: Vero verius (English: Truer than truth... which sounds just as paradoxical in Latin as it does in English).
Proverbium Breve of the Day: Today's three-word proverb is: Post spinas palma (English: After thorns, the palm... which is to say, you have to be prepared to suffer in order to win the victory).
Vulgate Verse of the Day: Today's verse is Lingua inquietum malum, plena veneno mortifero (James 3:8). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
Latin Animal Proverb of the Day: Today's animal proverb is Felibus domo absentibus, mures saltant. (English: When the cats are away from the house, the mice leap... much like the English, "when the cat's away, the mice play").
Latin Animal Proverb of the Day from Erasmus: Today's animal proverb is Capra nondum peperit, haedus autem ludit in tectis (English: The goat hasn't given birth yet, but the kid is already playing on the rooftops - a variation on the same notion as 'counting your chickens before they're hatched' - from Adagia 2.6.10).
Proper Name Proverb of the Day from Erasmus: Today's proper name proverb is Odium Vatinianum (English: Hatred as if for Vatinius; from Adagia 2.2.94 - Vatinius, a politician of Republican Rome, and a proverbial object of hatred; he was a particular enemy of Cicero, among others).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Καθ' ἑαυτοῦ Βελλεροφόντης (English: Bellerophon against himself... an allusion to the famous "letter of Bellerophon" in which he brought the instructions for his own execution - a motif, by the way, which I saw used in a great film by Sam Mendes, Road to Perdition, which I watched this past weekend!).
TODAY'S FABLES:
Fable of the Day: Today's fable of the day from Barlow is DE IUVENE ET HIRUNDINE, a fable which proves the proverb that "one swallow does not make a summer."
Ictibus Felicibus: Today's fable with macrons and accent marks is Cicada et Formica, the famous story of the lazy cricket and the industrious ant.
For an image today, I thought I would grab one of the pages from the Tar Heel reader I created for the story of the ant and the cricket:
