October 21st, 2023 Latin of the Day - "aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus"
"aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus"
"sometimes good Homer nods off" - meaning sometimes even the greatest poet fails to be as incredible as usual, even the greatest in any field can be off their game and no one is perfect all the time - from Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
a.d. XII Kalendas Novembres anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
May 7th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "aere perennius"
"aere perennius"
"more lasting/enduring than bronze" - Horace describes his book of poetry as a monument "more lasting than bronze" - most bronze monuments of his era were melted down over a millennium ago, but we still read Horace, so he was right!
~ Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 - 8 B.C.E.), Odes III.xxx.1
Nonis Maiis anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
May 5th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "aequam servare mentem"
"aequam servare mentem"
"to keep an even mind," id est, "keep calm," "keep one's cool"
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 - 8 B.C.E.), Odes, II.iii.1 - this expression is an abbreviation of Horace's "aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem" - "remember to keep an even mind in difficult circumstances"
a.d. III Nonas Maias anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
April 29th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt."
"Caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt."
"Those who go running across the sea change their sky but not their mind." - I remind myself as I am less than a month out from running across the country (not the sea) to a place I'd much rather live . . .
~ Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 - 8 B.C.E.). Epistles I.XI.27
a.d. III Kalendas Maias anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
