Latin Via Proverbs 80

I hope these notes will help you tackle this group of proverbs in Latin Via Proverbs. This set features first conjugation verbs along with second declension nouns.

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Group 80

1048. Friend helps friend. (To use a more familiar English idiom, you could also translate this as "one friend helps another.")

1049. Donkey scratches donkey. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1050. The donkey blames the ass. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1051. One abyss summons another. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1052. He sails by his own wind. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1053. He's pouring words into the winds. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1054. He's sowing among stones. (You can find this saying in Erasmus's Adagia, 1.4.54.)

1055. The horse often fights back against the reins. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1056. Among the dwarfs, the pygmy rules. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1057. The soul dwells in the eyes. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1058. The wolf does not care about the number. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1059. The top is scarcely different from the bottom. (This is a Whittaker family motto.)

1060. Gain does not enrich many people, but impoverishes them. (The Latin word lucrum gives us the English word "lucre," which has negative connotations, "filty lucre," more greed than gain.)

1061. It is pleasant to tell your troubles. (The paradox, of course, is the juxtaposition of iucundum and mala.)

1062. To err is human, to keep on erring is diabolical. (The more famous form of this saying is Errare humanum est; ignoscere divinum, "to err is human, to forgive divine.")

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