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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 11h
Do not indulge stoney columns with perfumes or wreathes, and do not raise high the flame: such an outlay goes to the void. While I'm alive, if you are so inclined, charm me with favors. When you pour a drink for the pyre's ashes you will make mud, and the dead will not drink.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 30/09/2026
For the rich, they say, have many consolations. τοῖς γὰρ πλουσίοις πολλὰ φασι παραμύθια εἶναι. (PI. R. 329e)
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 29/09/2026
But nothing is preferable to me, at least, unless it happens to be true. Ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν ἥδιον ἔμοιγε, εἰ μὴ τυγχάνει ἀληθὲς ὄν. (Pl. Euthphr. 14e)
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 24/09/2026
For mortals age quickly at a time of evil. αἶψα γὰρ ἐν κακότητι βροτοὶ καταγηράσκουσιν. (Hom. Od. 19.369)
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 12/07/2026
“δοκέω μέν, ἐς Κλέωνα τοῦτ᾿ αἰνίσσεται, ὡς κεῖνος ἐν Ἀίδεω σπατίλην ἐσθίει.” (Ar. Pax 47f) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 11/07/2026
Consider what has happened to and what has befallen commoners and kings alike: for if you are mindful of what has gone by, you will plan better for what is to come.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 08/07/2026
Never hope to hide a shameful thing that you've done: for you will know of it in your own heart, even if you escape the notice of others. Μηδέποτε μηδὲν αἰσχρὸν ποιήσας ἔλπιζε λήσειν· καὶ γὰρ ἂν τοὺς ἄλλους λάθῃς, σεαυτῷ συνειδήσεις. (Isoc. 1.16)
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 19/04/2026
For the Fates have given to men a spirit that endures. τλητὸν γὰρ Μοῖραι θυμὸν θέσαν ἀνθρώποισιν. (Hom Il. 24.49) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 19/04/2026
Chou-se your own Cato reference. www.lemonde.fr/en/lifestyle...
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Stuffed Cabbage World Championship brings together top culinary talent
From Seoul to Tokyo, London and Saskatoon in Canada, seven carefully selected contestants traveled to France at the end of February to take part in the second edition of the World Stuffed Cabbage Cham...
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 18/04/2026
9/10 frogs agree: the sun sucks. gnomai.com/stories/the-...
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The Frogs Complain Against the Sun (Phaed. 1.6)
Read 'The Frogs Complain Against the Sun' by Phaedrus in Latin and English.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 10/04/2026
For the immortal gods are accustomed to grant good outcomes, now and then, and a rather long reprieve, to those whom they wish to punish for their wickedness, so that such men might suffer all the more from the reversal of their fortunes.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 07/04/2026
"...ἢν στρατεύηται ἐπὶ Πέρσας, μεγάλην ἀρχὴν μιν καταλύσειν..." (Hdt. 1.53)
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 03/04/2026
And I set my heart to understanding wisdom and science, folly and fatuity, and I came to see that in these pursuits there is pain and suffering of the spirit; and thereby that in much knowledge is much righteous anger and that he who increases his knowledge adds also to his toil.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 31/03/2026
The god of war has no favorites and is wont to slay the man minded to kill. ξυνὸς Ἐνυάλιος, καί τε κτανέοντα κατέκτα. (Hom Il. 18.309) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 28/03/2026
Since, therefore, the law is the bond of a society of citizens, and, what's more, justice under the law is an equal thing for all, by what justice can a society of citizens be maintained, when citizens do not live on the same terms?
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 28/03/2026
For insofar as a tyrant may be kind, he can just the same be cruel; and so this is the only difference among those who live under such rulers, whether they serve an affable or harsh master; indeed it cannot be but that they serve him.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We love Prof. Machado! “Students in Associate Professor of Classics Dominic Machado's community-based learning course worked with middle school students in the Marlborough School District to help bring the Latin language to life for the younger audience.” magazine.holycross.edu/stories/anci...
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An Ancient Language Finds a New Audience
A community-based learning course brings Latin into the middle school classroom.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 23/03/2026
By their fruits you shall know them: surely people do not gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς· μήτι συλλέγουσιν ἀπὸ ἀκανθῶν σταφυλὰς ἢ ἀπὸ τριβόλων σῦκα; (Matthew 7:16) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 15/03/2026
“But though all the vials of wrath descend upon our heads, the Ides of March are our consolation.” Sed omnia licet concurrant, Idus Martiae consolantur. (Cic. Att. 358.2/XIV.5; trans. Shackleton Bailey) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 12/03/2026
Don't look a *checks notes* gift-snake in the mouth... gnomai.com/stories/zeus... #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Zeus and the Snake (Perry 221; Chambry 122)
Read 'Zeus and the Snake' by Aesop in Greek and English.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 08/03/2026
And they cannot get their fill of the din of evil war. οὐδὲ δύνανται | φυλόπιδος κορέσασθαι ὁμοιίου πτολέμοιο. (Hom. Il. 13.634f) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 01/03/2026
Thereupon Jesus says to him, “Put back your sword in its place, for all who take the sword in hand shall be destroyed by the sword.” (Matthew 26:52)
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 26/02/2026
When asked, I suppose, which is the finest city to live in, he (i.e. Solon) said: “That city in which those who are not victims of injustice pursue and punish villains with no less vigor than the victims themselves.”
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 15/02/2026
Dr. Ovid, fertility specialist, recommends Lupercalia:
A mosaic with the text "Febrarius" and an image of a Lupercus, a priest of the Lupercalia, brandishing a whip, preparing to strike a women in the presence of two others.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 13/02/2026
Some say a force of cavalry is the finest thing on the black earth; others claim a host of infantry, and others of ships; but I say it is whatever you love.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 10/02/2026
We must not relinquish our soul to evils, for we shall get nowhere wallowing in misery, Bycchis: the finest cure for our ills is to bring some wine and get drunk.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 09/02/2026
Kyrnos, this city is yet the city, but its people are manifestly different… Κύρνε, πόλις μὲν ἔθ᾿ ἥδε πόλις, λαοὶ δὲ δὴ ἄλλοι… (Theognis 1.53) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 06/02/2026
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The Shortsighted Shepherd (Babrius 113)
Read 'The Shortsighted Shepherd' by Babrius in Greek and English.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 01/02/2026
Without friend, without law, without home is that man who loves horrid war among his own people. ἀφρήτωρ ἀθέμιστος ἀνέστιός ἐστιν ἐκεῖνος ὃς πολέμου ἔραται ἐπιδημίου ὀκρυόεντος. (Hom. Il. 9.63f) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 31/01/2026
The cold crept subtly, all the way to the very marrow and bone. ὁ κρυμὸς δὲ εἰσεδύετο λεπτὸς μέχρι μυελῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ὀστέων. (Alciphron 3.40.2) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 26/01/2026
Now, there will be no contest, Quirites; they will always test your spirit, but they will not contend with your strength. Nec nunc erit certamen, Quirites; animos vestros illi temptabunt semper, vires non experientur. (Liv. 4.5.4)
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 24/01/2026
Someone gathering his sheep within the fold one evening was about to shut a tawny wolf inside with them. Seeing this, his dog said to him: “How are you serious about keeping the sheep safe, when you’re introducing this one among us?”
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 23/01/2026
The age, however, is not so deprived of virtues that it has not produced good models as well. Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile saeculum ut non et bona exempla prodiderit. (Tac. Hist. 1.3) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 22/01/2026
Lament, lament, but let the good prevail … And yet, from within, my self-taught soul sings a Fury's lyreless dirge αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τό δ᾿ εὖ νικάτω … τὸν δ᾿ ἄνευ λύρας ὅμως ὑμνῳδεῖ θρῆνον Ἐρινύος αὐτοδίδακτος ἔσωθεν θυμός (Aesch. Ag. 121,990ff) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 20/01/2026
That part of life that we live is paltry. Indeed, all the rest of the span is not life, but time. Exigua pars est vitae, qua vivimus. Ceterum quidem omne spatium non vita sed tempus est. (Sen. Brev. Vit. 2) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 16/01/2026
Be not overwhelmed in hating your enemies; and yet do not forget: for time is a soothing god. μήθ᾿ οἷς ἐχθαίρεις ὑπεράχθεο μήτ᾿ ἐπιλάθου· χρόνος γὰρ εὐμαρὴς θεός. (Soph. El. 177f) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 12/01/2026
In no society, except that in which the power of the people is the greatest, does liberty have a home; verily, nothing can be sweeter; and yet, if it is not shared evenly by all, it is not, in fact, liberty.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 11/01/2026
You have lived in luxury upon the earth, with licentious indulgence; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the just one, who stands not against you.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 10/01/2026
For the gods are not heedless of those who have killed many, and the black Furies in good time enfeeble the man who has been lucky in escaping justice, destroying his life as they reverse his fortune; and when he enters the house of the unseen, he has no protection.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 07/01/2026
Grievous is the citizens’ speech filled with rancour, as it has the power of a curse ordained by the people. βαρεῖα δ᾿ ἀστῶν φάτις σὺν κότῳ, δημοκράντου δ᾿ ἀρᾶς τίνει χρέος (Aesch. Ag. 456f) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 02/01/2026
How long will you choose injustice and side with knaves? Grant justice to the orphan and mendicant, do right by the humble and poor; Set free the impoverished beggar and deliver him from the clutches of the wicked.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 01/01/2026
A propitious dawn rises: cherish it on your tongue and in your heart! Now we ought to say good things on this good day. prospera lux oritur: linguis animisque favete! nunc dicenda bona sunt bona verba die. (Ov. Fast. 1.71f) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 25/12/2025
And they will beat their swords into ploughs and their spears into scyths, and nation will not raise the sword against nation, and never will they even learn how to make war.
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 20/12/2025
And so, said Scipio, a commonwealth is a thing of the people. Not every gathering of men, however, composed in any old way, is a “people,” but a large assembly, united in a shared agreement on justice and a fellowship for the common good. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 17/12/2025
“Hope is the only good god among mortal men, as the rest have forsaken us for Olympus.” Ἐλπὶς ἐν ἀνθρώποισι μόνη θεὸς ἐσθλὴ ἔνεστιν, ἄλλοι δ᾿ Οὔλυμπον ἐκπρολιπόντες ἔβαν. (Thgn. 1135f) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 12/12/2025
In fashioning evil acts against another, a man fashions evils for himself: an evil design is evilest for the designer. οἷ τ’ αὐτῷ κακὰ τεύχει ἀνὴρ ἄλλῳ κακὰ τεύχων, ἡ δὲ κακὴ βουλὴ τῷ βουλεύσαντι κακίστη (Hes. Op. 265f) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 07/12/2025
Io: “By whose hand will he be stripped of his despotic scepter?” Prometheus: “By his own hand, thanks to his mindless contrivances.” ΙΩ πρὸς τοῦ τύραννα σκῆπτρα συληθήσεται; ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΥΣ πρὸς αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ κενοφρόνων βουλευμάτων. (Aesch. PV 761f) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 05/12/2025
The god of Oaths runs straightaway alongside crooked judgements, and a roar comes from Justice, dragged wherever men lead her, bribe-eaters, as they decide the law with crooked judgements. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 28/11/2025
33 And if a foreigner comes to dwell among you in your land, do not oppress him: 34 the foreigner who has come to you shall be as one who has been born from your land among you, and you shall love him as yourself, since you were foreigners in Egypt #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
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