Laura Gibbs's Blog – June 2008 Archive (5)

As promised, here is a round-up of my Latin blogs for the past week.



Latin Via Fables - This week's fables include LaFontaine's Fox and Grapes in Latin, Young Man and Swallow, Wolf and Nurse, Androcles and the Lion, and The Camel and the Lion-King.



Audio Latin Proverbs - This week's essay is about the proverb: Elephantus culicem non curat.…



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Summer Round-Up: June 22. This past week I had a FANTASTIC time looking for Latin Aesop's fables at Google Books and other online resources, in lieu of my usual blogging.



GoogleBooks has now scanned enough books from enough libraries that I have been able to pull together a very respectable online collection that represents all the major collections of Aesop's fables in Latin - ancient verse, medieval verse and prose, Renaissance verse and prose, plus all kinds of interesting modern… Continue

Summer Round-Up: June 15

As promised, here is a round-up of my Latin blogs for the past week.



Latin Proverb of the Day - This week's proverbs included Stercus optimum vestigium domini; Hectora quis nosset, si felix Troia fuisset?; In tenebris salto; In pratis ut flos, sic perit omnis honos and Regnant qualibet urbe lupi.…



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As promised, here is a round-up of my Latin blogs for the past week. I hope everybody is having a great summer!



At the AudioLatin.com website, I added some audio to accompany both the Latin Via Proverbs book and the Vulgate Verses book.



At the Vulgate Verses blog, I've commented on the verse Pascua sunt… Continue

Since the summer is a productive time for me at my various Latin blogs, I'll just be posting here once a week with a summary of the contents of those other blogs, hoping that it might be useful! Here is a list of what I published this week:

Latin Via Fables (latinviafables.blogspot.com): I've added seven new Latin fable types - The Tree and the Reed, Two Men and a Bear, The Old Man and Death, The…

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