Latin LOLCat: The Lord's Works

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

Magna opera Domini.

Great are the works of the Lord.

Latin LOLCat: Equanimity

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Quod fors feret, feremus aequo animo.

What fortune brings, we will bear with equanimity.

Latin LOLCat: Money

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The words are from Seneca: Money has made no one wealthy; on the contrary, it has inflicted on everyone nothing but a greater desire for it. (Neminem pecunia divitem fecit, immo contra nulli non maiorem sui cupidinem incussit.) If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Neminem pecunia divitem fecit.

Money has made no one wealthy.

Latin LOLCat: Seeds of Contempt

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog. This particular cat was prompted by a tweet from sententiae antiquae:

"The face, though silent, often holds the seeds of contempt." Saepe tacens odii semina vultus habet. #Ovid

(cheezburger)

Latin LOLCat: Pleasure

Some of you may be familiar with the long-running series of Latin LOLCats that I had been publishing at one of my Latin blogs (but in Latin only, without the English translation). The goal at that blog was to help students with their Latin, hence my reluctance to provide an English translation. The proverbs were carefully chosen to use only vocabulary found on a the 1000-word Latin Core Vocabulary List. Now that I am shifting my attention to English proverbs, however, I will be publishing those LOLCats here - with an English translation each time, of course!

Here is the first of those Latin LOLCats - with English. Today's saying is adapted from Cicero:

Voluptate capimur omnes.

We are all prisoners of pleasure.

Latin LOLCat: Cosmopolitan Cat

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. This is a saying about the cosmopolitan lifestyle: instead of automatically being a citizen of the country where you were born, you can consider yourself a citizen of whatever country in which you are satisfied. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Patria est ubi bene sit cuique.

Each person's homeland is where things go well for him.

Latin LOLCat: Songs

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Carmina morte carent.

Songs know no death.

Latin LOLCat: Wealth

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Divitiae meae sunt, tu autem divitiarum es.

My wealth belongs to me, but you belong to your wealth.

Latin LOLCat: Laughable or Lamentable

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Aut ridenda omnia aut flenda sunt.

All things are either laughable or lamentable.

Latin LOLCat: Wealth

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Suis rebus contentum esse maximae sunt divitiae.

The greatest wealth is to be content with what is yours.

Latin LOLCat: Water

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In mari aquam quaeris.

You're looking for water in the ocean.

Latin LOLCat: Anger

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Adspicis iratum? Irato noli addere ferrum.

Do you see an angry man? Lend him not a sword.

Latin LOLCat: Vade ad formicam

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog. The ant is a proverbially busy creature, something like the "busy bee" in English idiom. The Latin comes from the Bible; you can find out more here: Vade ad formicam.

Vade ad formicam, o piger!

Go to the ant, you lazy creature!

(cheezburger)

Latin LOLCat: Satis est

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Si satis est, multum est.

If it is enough, it is a lot.

(cheezburger)

Latin LOLCat: As You Please

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Non omnibus, quod libet, licet.

Not everyone can do as they please.

Latin LOLCat: In the middle

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In medio tutissimus.

In the middle, safest.

Latin LOLCat: Homeland

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Illic enim patria est, ubi tibi sit bene.

Your home is there
where things are good for you.

Latin LOLCat: The Stars

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Ad astra doloribus itur.

By means of suffering, you reach the stars.

Latin LOLCat: To each his own

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Suus cuique mos.

Everyone has their own custom.

Latin LOLCat: To Have

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The Latin word rapit which you see here is at the root of many English words, from rape to rapture to rapid. More about the etymology here. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Qui rapit, habet.

He who grabs, has.