Qui prior egressus est, Iacobus Rufus erat: A thread for all things Latin

Contra malum mortis non est medicamentum in hortis.

Although I see other alternate wordings of that.

Just saw on TCM that Walter Matthau used the term sine invidia in a letter to Billy WIlder about The Fortune Cookie script.

Lupus in fabula.

— Em tibi autem!
— Quidnamst?
— Lupus in fabula.
— Pater est?
— Ipsust.
— Terence, Adelphoe 535–539

— But look!
— What is it?
— Talk of the devil!
— It’s my father?
— In person.
(Transl. Barsby, 2001)

obv (and against barsby) i favour "whomst is it?" for "quidnamst?"

Lol

Also have been thinking about posting
Festina lente

Last seen here one and only time on a certain type of very olde thread.

Homines quod volunt credunt.

The Duolingo course is not so great but at least it has audio and I haven’t personally maxed it out like so many others so I have been plugging away at it recently

flumenflue, transitum Eva et Adae, declinationem ab litore ad flectere lauri, commodius ab nobis facit Houuthi vicus de castro et recirculus ad circumstant.

Horror vacui

Non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem.

solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant

a palindrome and riddle:

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

Aquilam volare, delphinum natare doces.

https://logeion.uchicago.edu/vir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7hd799IznU

Apparently the preferred method by far these days of self-study is a book known as Lingua Latina or LLPSI (in full, LINGVA LATINA PER SE ILLVSTRATA), written by a Danish linguist and high school teacher named Hans Ørberg. It’s 100% in Latin and uses the Natural Method to teach, which I guess means letting the brain what it does naturally. There is all kinds of ancillary material built up around if, including the audio version I just linked to.

Around it

I realized recently I still know the Our Father and Hail Mary in latin which I guess is what happens when you take Latin at a catholic HS.