1. Dedicated to people in ‘lockdown’ – wherever they are.
Dolor hic tibi proderit oli.
Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.
2. Dedicated to antiviral drug and vaccine researchers:
Mille sint mali mille salutis erunt.
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
3. For those in public health agencies:
Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit.
He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.
4. For Dan Andrews:
Requiescendum; dat ager uberrimam segetem requievit.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
5. For Treasurers and managers of science agencies:
Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur
Cum mala per longas convaluere
moras.
Resist beginnings; the remedy comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.
6. For everyone:
Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet!
Let the Man who does not wish to be idle fall in Love!
7. For researchers of the effectiveness of lockdown:
Nil adsuetudine maius.
Nothing is stronger than habit.
Nothing is more powerful than custom.
8. -and another:
Quod male fers, adsuesce, feres bene.
Habit makes all things bearable.
- 9. For children:
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat
hamus
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis
erit.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
10. For Albo:
Medio tutissimus ibis.
You will be safest in the middle.
You will go most safely by the middle way.
11. For social media enthusiasts:
Causa latet, vis est notissima
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
12. For Joe Biden:
Fas est et ab hoste doceri.
It is right to learn even from an enemy.
We can learn even from our enemies.
13. For Barnaby:
Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.
We take no pleasure in permitted joys.
But what’s forbidden is more keenly sought.
14. For cultural warriors:
Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus
ipsi,
Vix ea nostra voco.
For those things which were done either by our fathers, or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, we can scarcely call our own.
15. For Scomo and Paul Fletcher:
Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
And he turned his mind to unknown arts.
16. For BLM:
Gutta cavat lapidem
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
17. For people of hope and good will:
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit
Everything changes, nothing perishes.
18. For Dan Tehan, Minister for Education:
Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter
artes
emollit mores nec sinit esse
feros.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
19. For realists everywhere:
Laudent ceteri olim; ego sum laetus ego eram natus est in illis.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
[Source of quotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ovid]