Bestiaria Latina: Audio Latin Proverbs
Thoughts about teaching and learning from an online instructor at the University of Oklahoma. :-)
March 06, 2008
Te de aliis quam alios de te suavius est fieri doctos
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In English: It is a sweeter thing for you to become wise from others' mistakes than for others to become wise from your mistakes. I'...
March 03, 2008
Tranquillo quilibet gubernator est
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In English: When it's calm, anybody can be the helmsman. I thought I would post this proverb à propos of what might be the last big prim...
February 18, 2008
Errores medicorum terra tegit
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In English: The earth covers the doctors' mistakes. Yes, as so many of you have perhaps experience, this has been the winter of the cold...
February 06, 2008
Nihil annis velocius
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In English: Nothing is faster than the years. I've been very remiss about blogging here (although I have been blogging away at various L...
January 20, 2008
Stercus optimum vestigium domini
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In English: The master's footstep is the best fertilizer. I decided to post this as the saying for today since it provides a good themat...
January 18, 2008
Dominus habet oculos centum
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In English: The master has a hundred eyes. This is a proverb that you can find in many variants: Dominus videt plurimum in rebus suis , ...
January 13, 2008
Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt.
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In English: When fools try to avoid errors, they run into the opposite errors. I'm having a difficult time finding an elegant way to exp...
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