YOUR LATIN FUN FOR THE DAY:
"Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus."
-Horace, Ars Poetica, 9
translated in the very amusing book of Latin maxims I was given yesterday as:
"The mountain groaned loudly in great labor, then bore a tiny mouse."
slightly more accurately (but less amusingly):
"The mountains are in labor; a laughable* mouse will be born."
*'ridiculus' could also be 'droll' or 'amusing,' which makes me suspect this mouse could have a good second career as a comedian, or at least a decent dinner-party guest
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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