February 21st, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Pellitur e medio sapientia, vi geritur res,/ spernitur orator bonus, horridus miles amatur;/ haud doctis dictis certantes, sed maledictis . . ."

February 21st, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Pellitur e medio sapientia, vi geritur res,/ spernitur orator bonus, horridus miles amatur;/ haud doctis dictis certantes, sed maledictis . . ."

"Pellitur e medio sapientia, vi geritur res,

spernitur orator bonus, horridus miles amatur;

 haud doctis dictis certantes, sed maledictis . . .."

"Wisdom is driven out from our midst, brute force rules the state,

the good orator is scorned, the horrid soldier is loved;

those contending do so not with learned words, but with curses . . . 

~ Quintus Ennius (c. 239 - c. 169 B.C.E.), Annales, VIII

a.d. IX Kalendas Martias anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI