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TODAY'S FABLES: Here are today's fables from the Ictibus Felicibus project. These fables ALL have long marks, plus stress marks for easy reading, and the poems have meter marks, too, along with an easy-to-read prose presentation of the story:
- Aper et Vulpes, when the boar teaches the fox about being prepared.
- Columbae, Milvus et Accipiter, the story of the doves who made the hawk their king.
- Lepores et Ranae, how the frogs inspired the timid rabbits with the will to live!
- Asinus et Catellus, the story of the foolish donkey who wanted to be his master's pet.
- Socrates ad Amicos, a story of why the philosopher only needed to build himself a tiny house.
Vidēns vulpēcula ad truncum rōboris acuentem dentēs aprum interrogat illum, quō cōnsiliō id faciat, cum nulla urgeat necessitas, neque bellum īnstet. Cui aper rēspondit sibi perīculum sī forte adeundum sit, nōn ōtium tum futūrum ad acuendōs dentēs: ergō sē rectē, dum concēdātur tempus, ad ēventum pugnae praeparāre.TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: You can get access to ALL the "proverb of the day scripts" (also available as random proverb scripts) at the SchoolhouseWidgets.com website.
3-Word Mottoes: Today's 3-word motto is Vigilantia non cadet (English: Watchfulness will not fail - this could be the motto of the boar in the fable above).
3-Word Proverbs: Today's 3-word proverb is Neglegenda mors est (English: Consider death of no consequence - a very Stoic sentiment).
Rhyming Proverbs: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Sorice iam plena censetur amara farina (English: When the dormouse has eaten its fill, it thinks the flour tastes bitter - notice that in this later Latin saying, the words plena-farina rhyme).
Vulgate Verse: Today's verse is Qui habet duas tunicas, det non habenti (Luke 3:11). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
Elizabethan Proverb Commentary: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Taverner: Durum est contra simulum calcitrare: It is harde kickinge against the gode. It is evill strivinge againste the extreme, that is to say, It is great folie to struggle against such thinges as thou canste not overcome, or to provoke them, who if they be sturred may do ye displeasures, or to wrastle with Gods providence, and the incommoditie, whiche thou canst not avoyde, by thy impacient bearinge not onely, not to eschew it: but also to double the same.
Today's Poem: Today's poem is from Wegeler, with a word list at NoDictionaries.com:
Parisios stolidum si quis transmittit asellum,English: "If somebody is sending his stupid jackass off to Paris: if he was a donkey when he was here, he's not going to turn into a horse by being there." The joke, of course, is about people sending their sons off to Paris to be educated - hoping, in vain, that schooling might turn a jackass into a horse. :-)
Si fuit hic asinus, non ibi fiet equus.
For today's image, here is an illustration for the story of the rabbits and the frogs, Lepores et Ranae:
