I love words. You may or may not have noticed this about me, but really, I think language is fascinating.<\/p>\n
Because of that fascination, I always get a word-of-the-day desk calendar, not so I know what day it is, but so I can learn new words. Last years WOTD calendar was a failure, because it had the word, the meanings, and the etymology, which meant that if I didn’t sit at my desk for a couple days, I was looking a several minutes of reading to catch up. So that was a waste.<\/p>\n
This year, for something different, I got a Latin phrases calendar, and so far it’s quite interesting. I wish it gave more literal translations in addition to what the phrase means, but, you can’t have everything.<\/p>\n
Here are a few recent phrases that I’d like to make note of electronically, so I don’t have to save the calendar squares for anything more than scrap paper.<\/p>\n
Of course the phrases that interest me may also tell you something about me.<\/p>\n
Alea iacta est. Possunt quia posse videntur. Nil homini certum est. Spes sibi quisque. Michael would be the only one who could guess the geek reason why I wanted to know alea iacta est<\/em> but the rest of them interesting in and of themselves. Virgil and Ovid certainly had (or else collected) a lot of wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love words. You may or may not have noticed this about me, but really, I think language is fascinating. Because of that fascination, I always get a word-of-the-day desk calendar, not so I know what day it is, but so I can learn new words. Last years WOTD calendar was a failure, because it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","category-non-sequiturs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-vf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe die is cast<\/em>. – Caesar<\/p>\n
\nThey can because they think they can.<\/em> – Virgil<\/p>\n
\nNothing is certain to man.<\/em> – Ovid<\/p>\n
\nRely on yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n