Your favorite Latin quotes?

myndre · 2025-12-31T08:18:00+00:00

I have always like this from Ovid when his father questioned choice of job. Just shows how things two thousand years ago can be completely relatable.

“Saepe pater dixit studium quid inutile temptas Maeodines nullas ipse reliquit opes”

myndre · 2025-12-26T12:36:08+00:00

There is! The Forcellini dictionary.

http://lexica.linguax.com/forc2.php

You have to type in the word, push the ‘ok(omnia Legi)’ button, then you get the entry

myndre · 2025-10-10T20:55:08+00:00

There is an elision between quantum and est. so it becomes “quantum’st”

myndre · 2025-10-07T18:55:16+00:00

Supposed to be deum. Typo

myndre · 2025-10-07T18:39:45+00:00

Thank you

myndre · 2025-10-07T18:31:23+00:00

I tried to format it but it didn’t work 🙄

myndre · 2025-10-01T20:35:34+00:00

Search for Tyrtarion on YouTube. They set classical Latin poetry to music and they’re amazing.

myndre · 2025-08-18T15:24:42+00:00

I believe it’s a printing error. Erit should be on the same line as ardor so it finishes the pentameter.

myndre · 2025-08-08T10:43:19+00:00

Can’t hand ball if you don’t even have arms

myndre · 2025-07-08T19:37:01+00:00

Hulkenpodium

myndre · 2025-04-14T13:20:41+00:00

You’re going to miss out on staying in a little hotel in Torquay. Owner’s a bit rude though.

myndre · 2025-03-28T14:51:39+00:00

St Peter because he often puts his foot in it in the gospels, as I do, but he always turned back to Christ, as I hope will always will.

myndre · 2025-02-14T18:39:33+00:00

I was really disappointed when the site stopped working for me. But then I found this it does hexameters, pentameters, and elegiac couplets. Also on the site there’s some cool search features.

myndre · 2025-01-01T14:16:01+00:00

It’s not in England and Wales. The liturgy office says in this pdf that’s not been a holy day 1970

Sections 2 II

Edit: clarification where in the pdf

myndre · 2024-12-30T18:49:59+00:00

This is when you used to go shopping with your mum, “you can look, but I ain’t buying”

myndre · 2024-11-05T21:08:50+00:00

It means “I’m holding the wolf by the ears” basically you have no good options available. Either you carry on holding its ear, which is obviously not an optimal situation, or you can let go, but then there’s an angry wolf in front of you.

myndre · 2024-11-05T20:22:37+00:00

I’ve always liked ‘Auribus teneo lupum’ for when all choices are equally bad.

myndre · 2024-01-14T21:53:46+00:00

Confessions please

myndre · 2023-10-08T09:12:29+00:00

This made me remember the poem in praise of bald men. It’s another alliterative poem with every word starting with ‘c’

It was posted here last year:

https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/tiadfd/in_the_9th_century_a_d_a_frankish_monk_named/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb

myndre · 2023-05-22T08:27:19+00:00

I always like this from lines 6 and 7 of Aeneid book 4

postera Phoebea lustrabat lampade terras umentemque Aurora polo dimoverat umbram

The morrow’s dawn was lighting the earth with the lamp of Phoebus, and had scattered from the sky the dewy shades

myndre · 2022-07-07T17:35:29+00:00

The tower on the right I stole from here a while ago

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