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"annosa vulpes haud capitur laqueo"
Common Latin expression. Related: https://drglatin.tumblr.com/post/673003012149608448/multa-novit-vulpes-verum-echinus-unum-magnum
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LQOW for 4/14/2026:
"annosa vulpes haud capitur laqueo"
Common Latin expression. Related: https://drglatin.tumblr.com/post/673003012149608448/multa-novit-vulpes-verum-echinus-unum-magnum
Latin Quote of the Week for 4/6/2026
Nihil sub sole novum
(From the Vulgate, Ecclesiastes 1.10; the immediate context for this quote is the passage from 1.9-1.10: Quid est quod fuit? Ipsum quod futurum est. Quid est quod factum est? Ipsum quod faciendum est. Nihil sub sole novum, nec valet quisquam dicere: Ecce hoc recens est: jam enim praecessit in saeculis quae fuerunt ante nos.)
LQOW for the week of 9/22/2025
contra stultitiam caelestes ipsi nequiquam luctantur
Dr. G.'s Latin rendition of Friedrich Schiller's "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens," from the Maid of Orleans)
LQOW for the week of 4/21/2025
Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.
Cicero, Phil. 12.2.5
LQOW for 4/8 and 4/9/2025
a diabolo, qui est simia dei
proverb recorded in Emanuel Strauss's Dictionary of European Proverbs
LQOW for 2/10 and 2/11/25
fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
(Famous quote from Caesar’s de Bello Gallico 3.18)
LQOW for 1/21 and 1/22, 2025
quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames!
(Virgil, Aeneid 3.56-57)
LQOW for 1/7 and 1/8/2025
de gustibus non est disputandum
familiar expression from Latin, likely of medieval origin
LQOW for 10/28-11/1/2024:
Sunt aliquid Manes: letum non omnia finit, luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos.
(Propertius 4.7, lines 1-2)
LQOW for 9/3-9/6/2024
Quid est quod fuit? Ipsum quod futurum est. Quid est quod factum est? Ipsum quod faciendum est.
Nihil sub sole novum
(Ecclesiastes 1.9-10, Vulgate text)
LQOW for 8/22 and 8/23/2024
nascentes morimur finisque ab origine pendet
LQOW for 5/6/2024
in magna copia rerum aliud alii natura iter ostendit
(Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 2.9)
Latin Quote(s) of the Week for 3/19/2024
non sibi sed suis
and
serit ut alteri saeclo prosit
The first is a common expression that is the motto of several educational institutions. The second is the state motto of North Dakota.
LQOW for the week of 3/4/24
necessitudo, quae etiam timidos fortis facit
from Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 58.19 (said by Catiline, but even the bad guys sometimes say cool stuff)
LQOW for the week of January 4, 2024
Hic sunt dracones
Terra incognita
Horror vacui
Phrases and expressions particular to the fields of geography and cartography.
LQOW for 10/10/23
a verbis legis non est recedendum
(Latin formulation of a common legal principle)
LQOW for the FIRST WEEK of 2023-2024
per aspera ad astra
(motto of Greenhill School, sometimes phrased as "ad astra per aspera," in one form or another the motto of the state of Kansas, Starfleet, the Italian Air Force, and many other schools. Seneca's line from Hercules Furens is similar: "non est ad astra mollis e terris via"). So are Virgil's lines from the Aeneid: "sic itur ad astra" and "opta ardua pennis astra sequi."
bonus moments from JFK's Moon Speech
"human history"
"why the moon?"