Monday, March 19, 2012

Cursus fatorum nescit...

Here is today's Rhyming Distich, and here are some more posts with Rhyming Distichs. This one is from Zacher's Altfranzösische Sprichwörter.

Murilegus plures praesens legit undique mures;
Mus salit in stratum, dum scit abesse catum.


Here is the vocabulary:

murilegus - cat, mouser
plus - more
praesens - present, in attendance
lego - gather
undique - from all sides
mus - mouse
salio - leap, jump
in - in, into
stratum - bed, couch
dum - while, when
scio - know
absum - be away, be absent
catus - cat