Cicero on courage
Cicero recounts the brave standing up against injustice.Agyrinenses, viri fortissimi, iudicio se passuros esse dicebant.The Agyrinenses, bravest of men, said they would submit themselves to stand tria...
24 Mar 20253min
Seneca gets cheerful
Seneca finds happiness where others don’t look.Honesta res est laeta paupertas.Cheerful povery is an honourable thing.Honesta: honourableRes: thingEst: isLaeta: cheerfulPaupertas: poverty
23 Mar 20252min
Petronius on parvenus
Petronius begins a rant on new money.Uxor, inquit, Trimalchionis, Fortunata appellatur, quae nummos modio metitur.The wife of Trimalchio, he said, is called Fortunata, who measures out coins by the bu...
20 Mar 20254min
Lucretius on creation
Lucretius says nothing comes from nothingNullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.No thing is at any time to be created from nothing by divine powerNullum: noRem: thingE nihilo: from nothingGigni: t...
19 Mar 20253min
Ausonius on oratory
Ausonius ponders the power of speech.Modo intellego, quam mellea res sit oratio.I understand only now how honey sweet a thing eloquence is.Modo: only nowIntellego: I understandQuam: how, whatMellea: h...
18 Mar 20253min
Seneca self deprecates
Seneca looks inward and finds himself wanting.Inquirenti mihi in me quaedam vitia apparebant.To me, inquiring into myself, certain faults became apparent.Inquirenti: As I was examiningMihi: to meIn me...
17 Mar 20252min
Martial on the artist
Martial takes down an opponent with slight and wit.Non scribit, cuius carmina nemo legit.He writes not, whose poems no one reads.Non: notScribit: he writesCuius: whoseCarmina: poems, songsNemo: no one...
16 Mar 20252min
Cato on buying a house
Cato tells you what to do when buying a houseDe domino bono bonoque aedificatore melius emetur.A purchase will be better made from a good owner and a good builder.De: fromDomino bono bonoque aedificat...
13 Mar 20252min
