« Modus omnibus rebus » – Plautus 🇺🇸 Moderation in all things 🇫🇷 De la mesure en toute chose Plaute nous enseigne la modération, ce qui n’est pas sans nous rappeler bien sûr le « aurea mediocritas » de Horace📚 🇯🇵 何事にも中庸 “何事もほどほどが良い”と教えてくれるプラウトゥス📚 ホラティウス の “aurea mediocritas” (黄金の中庸) に似ていますね🏆 Nanigoto nimo chuuyou “Nanigoto mo hodohodo ga ii” to oshietekureru […]
« Ars longa, vita brevis » -Hippocrates 🇺🇸 Life is short, art is long. This is a Latin translation from the ancient Greek doctor Hippocrates’ quote. “Ars” here means “art” in the sense of “skill” which we acquire by practicing. So it means “it takes time to acquire a skill and life is short.” As lifelong students, […]
« Dimidium facti qui coepit habet. Incipe! » – Horatius 🇺🇸He who has begun is half done. Begin! Horatius’ advice: start today what you need to do, similar to the English proverb “Procrastination is the thief of time.” 🇫🇷Celui qui a commencé a la moitié de fait. Commence! Conseil d’Horace: le plus important est de commencer, donc […]
🇺🇸 Today, a colorful French quote about Roman emperor Claudius by Auguste Bailly, in his book on Roman philosopher Seneca📜 « Vaniteux, sordide, rusé, inerte, et parfois agité de brusques velléités despotiques, ce souverain sans pareil offrait à l’univers le spectacle d’une farce à la fois bouffonne et tragique. » Auguste Bailly La vie de Sénèque (1929)📚 […]
🏛 Et quod temptabam scribere versus erat – Ovidius 🇺🇸 “Everything I tried to write was poetry.”Ovidius tells us his immense love for poetry📜 🇫🇷 « Tout ce que j’essayais d’écrire prenait la forme des vers. » Phrase d’Ovide, illustrant à quel point il était féru de poésie📚 🇯🇵 「自分が書こうとするものは全て詩だった。」どれだけ詩に熱中していたかを語るオウィディウス📚 « Jibun ga kakou to suru mono wa […]
🇺🇸 peach / 🇯🇵ピーチ (piichi) / 🇫🇷 pêche 🇺🇸 These three words meaning “peach” come all from the Latin word “(malum) persicum” which means “(apple) from Persia.” Originally there were no peaches in Antique Rome, however the emperor Trajan in the second century brought them from Persia, and that’s how they were named like that🍑 […]
Today, a Latin quote about true wealth💰 « Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet » – Phaedrus 🇺🇸 The learned man has always wealth inside himself 🇫🇷 L’homme instruit a toujours de la richesse en lui 🇯🇵 博学な人は常に自分の中に富を持っている (Hakugaku na hito wa tsuneni jibun no naka ni tomi wo motteiru)
🏛 « Oboluisti alium » – Plautus It means “You stink garlic.” It is an insult which Tranio, a deceitful slave in Plautus’ comedy “Mostellaria,” said to the loyal slave Grumio after being rebuked🧄 They are quarreling during the master’s absence over Tranio’s beahvior. Plautus’ plays have inspired many playwrights after him, including most renown French playwrights […]
« In cauda venenum » 🇺🇸 The poison (of scorpion) is in the tail This proverb is teaching us that the most dangerous part of a scorpion is not their visible pincers in the front, but their poisonous tail in the back. A person may act nicely at first, but may also sting eventually, so beware! 🇫🇷 […]
« Asinus asinum fricat »🐴 🇯🇵 ロバはロバを撫でる (roba wa roba wo naderu) 古代ローマで、ロバは馬鹿の意味でも使われていて、お互いを褒めちぎってばかりいる人たちのことを揶揄した格言です🐴🐴 (Kodai rooma de, roba wa baka no imi demo tsukawareteite, otagai wo homechigitte bakari iru hitotachi no koto wo yayushita kakugen desu.) 🇫🇷 L’âne frotte l’âne Proverbe latin se moquant des personnes qui n’arrêtent pas de se faire des compliments excessifs mutuellement🐴🐴 🇺🇸 The […]