April 30th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Animum debes mutare, non caelum."

 April 30th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Animum debes mutare, non caelum."

"Animum debes mutare, non caelum." 

"You ought to change your mind, not your sky." - Seneca's formulation of Horace's observation that changing climates does not necessarily change who you are, which is presumably your real problem. You would be better off solving your problems where you are than expecting that moving elsewhere will solve them. I post this as I am preparing to move back to my home state of Rhode Island after 12 years!

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.E. - 65 C.E.), Letters to Lucilius, XXVIII

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April 29th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt."

 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

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April 28th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Pro Bono Publico"

  April 28th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Pro Bono Publico"

"Pro Bono Publico" 

"For the Public Good"

~ Motto on the flag of East Providence, Rhode Island - Where I shall reside beginning in June 2023!

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April 27th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Sors aspera monstrat amicum."

 April 27th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Sors aspera monstrat amicum."

"Sors aspera monstrat amicum." 

"Harsh fate/bad luck/bitter circumstance reveals a friend." - The idea that you an tell who your real friends are because they stand by you even when your circumstance - your luck - has turned harsh.

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April 26th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto."

April 26th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto."

"Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto." 

"I am a human being; I consider nothing human to be foreign to me." 

~ Publius Terentius Afer (c. 185 - 159 B.C.E.), Heauton Timorumenos, 77

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April 25th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "aeger"

    April 25th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "aeger"

"aeger" 

"ill" or "invalid" - used in some English schools to mark the record of someone excused due to illness

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April 24th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "advocatus diaboli"

   April 24th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "advocatus diaboli"

"advocatus diaboli" 

"the devil's advocate" - not what most people think! A person appointed by the Catholic church to argue against the canonization of saints, to ensure a degree of rigor in the canonization process

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