March 27th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Impedit ira animum, ne possit cernere verum."

 March 27th, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Impedit ira animum, ne possit cernere verum."

"Impedit ira animum, ne possit cernere verum."

"Anger hinders the mind, so that it is not able to discern the truth." The word impedit literally means to get in the way of the foot, to trip up. Animum, literally "soul," is often used for "mind." Verum is not "truth" in the abstract, but more literally "a true thing," "that which is true." 

~ Dionysius Cato (The Distichs of Cato)

a.d. VI Kalendas Apriles anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI

The Distichs of Cato, I.28

From The Distichs of Cato, I.28:

Cum tibi sint nati nec opes, tunc artibus illos

Instrue, quo possint inopem defendere vitam.

Translation from the Loeb Classical Library edition:

"Since sons you have - not wealth - such training give

Their minds that they, though poor, unharmed may live."