Latin LOLCat: Expert

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Experto credite.

Trust the expert.

Latin LOLCat: War

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The words are from Vergil's Aeneid. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Nulla salus bello.

There is no safety in war.

Latin LOLCat: Blessed

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Beatus est qui vivit ut vult.

Blessed is he who lives as he wants.

Latin LOLCat: Silent

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Audio, sed taceo.

I listen, but I am silent.

Latin LOLCat: Mercy

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog. The words are . . .  Biblical.

Miserebor cuius misereor.

I will have mercy on whom I have mercy.

Latin LOLCat: The Sky

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Quid si caelum ruat?

What if the sky were to fall?

Latin LOLCat: Nature

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Naturae convenienter vive.

Live in accord with nature.

Latin LOLCat: I Will Flourish

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Deo favente, florebo.

With God's favor, I will flourish.

Latin LOLCat: Your Harvest

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Messe tenus propria vive.

Live within your harvest.

Latin LOLCat: Be Wary

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The line is called a "pentamer" in Latin poetry, the second half of an elegiac couplet. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Audi, multa vide, multa loquare cave.

Listen, observe much; be wary of saying much.

Latin LOLCat: Force

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The Latin word ius is related to our word "justice." If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Contra vim non valet ius.

Justice is powerless against force.

Latin LOLCat: Friends

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. You can also find this fuller form of the saying: Amicorum omnia sunt communia; amicus est alter ego, "Friends have all things in common; a friend is another I." If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Amicorum bona sunt communia.

Friends have all their goods in common.

Latin LOLCat: Wary

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. Compare the English proverb "Forewarned, forearmed." If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Sciens cavebo.

Being aware, I will take care.

Latin LOLCat: Divine Right of Kings

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The Latin rhymes nicely: rex/lex. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

A deo rex, a rege lex.

From God, the king; from the king, the law.

Latin LOLCat: Want

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The Latin has a nice play on words which I cannot figure out how to capture in English: volo is related to our word "volition," while valeo is related to "valid" and "prevail." The idea is that someone wants (to do something, to have something), but does not have the strength for it. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Volo, non valeo.

I want, but I am not able.

Latin LOLCat: Like

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. You could even come up with a play on words in English that is not possible in the Latin: "Like likes like." If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Similes similibus gaudent.

Like delights in like.

Latin LOLCat: Listen and Understand

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. You will find this command in the Gospel of Matthew. In the LOLCat Bible (yes, the Bible has been translated into LOLCat), it is rendered as "LISTEN UP!" If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Audite et intellegite.

Listen and understand.

Latin LOLCat: The Bold Ones

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The words are from Ovid's Metamorphoses. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Audentes deus ipse iuvat.

God himself favors the bold ones.

Latin LOLCat: Peace

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. This is a motto of the Scott family. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Pacem amo.

I love peace.

Latin LOLCat: Love Your Friend

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The words are from the Biblical book of Leviticus. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Diliges amicum tuum sicut teipsum.

You should love your friend as yourself.