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  1. #stpatricksday #minimuslatin
    Sanctus Patricius serpentes ex Hibernia agit... serpentes eum maxime vexant! (St Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland... the snakes are annoying him a lot!)

  2. Minimus' calendar for 2026 is ready, even if it's a bit late! Download your copy: minimuslatin.co.uk/fun-stuff.h
    #minimuslatin

  3. One of my online Latin students from the USA made a special trip with his family to meet Minimus' family and me in Suffolk, after visiting Vindolanda yesterday. euge!
    #MinimusLatin

  4. #stpatricksday #minimuslatin
    Sanctus Patricius serpentes ex Hibernia agit... serpentes eum maxime vexant! (St Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland... the snakes are annoying him a lot!)

  5. amor murinus omnia vincit! (Mousy love conquers all!) Minimus et Minima inter se amplexantur (Minimus and Minima hug each other). 🐭❤️🐭
    #minimuslatin #ValentinesDay

  6. Vindolandae ventosissimum est! (It's really windy at Vindolanda!) Rufus Vibrissam arte tenet, et Vibrissa caudam Minimi tenaciter prendit (Rufus holds Vibrissa close, and Vibrissa grips Minimus' tail tightly). #minimuslatin

  7. 31 Hecate, dea artis magicae et triviorum, (the goddess of witchcraft and crossroads), is ready for an evening of magic and umbrae (ghosts) with her faces ardentes (blazing torches), canes atri (black dogs) and mustela (weasel).
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  8. 30 Tiresias, vates caecus (the blind seer), potest vaticinari (can foretell the future) even after his death. Odysseus has come to Tartarus (the Underworld), offering sanguis ovis (sheep's blood) to persuade the umbra (ghost) to advise him.
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  9. 29 Nemesis, dea iustitiae (goddess of justice) and ultrix impiorum facinorum (avenger of wicked deeds), finds Narcissus on her index scelestorum (list of wicked men) for his cruelty to Echo. His punishment is to love his imago (reflection) in the stagnum (pond).
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  10. 28 Nyx, dea noctis (goddess of the night) is ready to fly trans caelum (across the sky) with her equus et currus atri (black horse and chariot), but first she needs to protect her son Hypnos (Sleep) from Zeus. Even rex deorum (the king of the gods) fears Nyx!
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  11. 27 Pygmalion amat (loves) Galatea, the statua pulcherrima (most beautiful statue*) he sculpsit (carved), but she isn't alive. Venus statuam animat (brings the statue to life). amor omnia vincit (love conquers all)!
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin
    *imagine the statue has a bottom half - it was too difficult to make!

  12. 26 Thetis nereis (the sea nymph) tests prospective maritus (husband) Peleus, se transformans in (turning into) leonem, serpentem, ignem et sepiam (a lion, a snake, fire and a cuttlefish) while he tries to hold on to her.
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  13. 25 Talos the automaton aeneum (bronze automaton) guarded Crete from piratae invasoresque (pirates and invaders), e.g. the Argonauts, throwing ingentia saxa (huge rocks) at them. Jason, sailing home with the vellus aureum (golden fleece), needs Medea to save him yet again.
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  14. 24 Hephaestus, ferrarius et artifex deorum (blacksmith and master craftsman of the gods) fulmen fabricat (forges a thunderbolt) in his officina (workshop). One of his wheeled tripodes aurei (golden tripods) is waiting to deliver it to Zeus.
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  15. 23 Orpheus chordas perite tangit (skilfully touches the strings) of his testudo (tortoise-shell lyre) to a rapt audience of animalia, arbor et saxum (animals, a tree and a rock).
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  16. 22 Midas transformat (changes) pocula (cups) and patellae (dishes) into aurum (gold) avide (eagerly), then he realises he can't eat caseus aureus (golden cheese)!
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  17. euge! We're part of the Pantheon again for this year's International Lego Classicism Day on February 20th! My online students are excitedly planning their Latin and Lego sentences and stories.
    brickclassicists.com/ilcd
    #ILCD24 #MinimusLatin

  18. cave bubonem, Minima! (Beware of the owl, Minima!
    🐭#MinimusLatin

  19. 21 Psyche, omnibus operibus Veneris confectis (after completing all Venus' tasks), is reunited with her maritus (husband) Cupid. According to fabulae (stories), musiva (mosaics) and simulacra (statues), Cupid has alae plumatae (feathery wings) and Psyche has the wings of a papilio (butterfly).
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  20. 20 Odysseus is tied to the malus (mast) to listen to the carmen Sirenis (the Siren's song) without jumping overboard. His nauta (sailor) has aures obturatas (plugged ears) to stay safe from periculum (danger). The Siren frustra cantat (sings in vain)!
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  21. 19 Sisyphus thought himself astutior deis (cleverer than the gods), betrayed Jupiter's commissa (secrets) and fraudavit (cheated) Pluto. He's doomed to roll a saxum rotundum (round rock) in adversum clivum (uphill) in Tartarus (the Underworld) for ever.
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  22. 18 Phaedra, uxor Thesei (wife of Theseus), is doomed by Venus to love her privignus (stepson) Hippolytus, because Hippolytus rejects amor (love) and colit (worships) only Diana.
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  23. 17 Atalanta, venatrix celeripes (swift-footed hunter) and Dianae cultrix (devotee of Diana) needs to win this race to avoid matrimonium (marriage), but she's distracta (distracted) by Melanion's mala aurea (golden apples).
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  24. 16: Circe, striga potentissima (powerful witch) is trying to enchant Odysseus with her potio (potion) and virga magica (magic wand). The lupus (wolf), porcus (pig) and leo (lion) are transformed sailors, but Odysseus is protected by his herba magica (magic herb).
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin

  25. 15: Prometheus has been ad saxum catenatus (chained to a rock) while vultur iecurem vellicat (a vulture pecks his liver), because Jupiter was angry that he gave fire to humanity. nota bene (NB) - no mice, livers or birds were harmed for this!
    #ClassicsTober23 #MinimusLatin