Latin LOLCat: Letters

Here is today's Latin LOLCat: The saying normally refers to the way that a distant friend can become present to you by means of a letter (or, in the modern world, by a text message or email or phone call). For this poor cat, though, Scrabble letters have conjured up an absent.... d-o-g. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Litteris absentes videmus.

By means of letters we see those who are absent.