5-minute Wisdom
A daily Latin fable from Laura Gibbs’s Mille Fabulae et Una or an adage from Erasmus’s Adages, with a short language lesson and a brief wisdom lesson — five minutes of Latin and reflection. Posted once per day to X, archived here.
Latin originals are from public-domain editions. English translations are from published editions (Margaret Mann Phillips’s translation of Erasmus’s Adages I.i–I.v) where available, and AI-rendered with explicit attribution otherwise. Each item makes its translation source explicit.
- · Simius Decoratus [fable 126]