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]
Let me try my hand at cricket prognostication.
‘Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed,
Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant:
But over its terrible edge there had slipped
A duke and many a peasant;
So the people said something would have to be done.
But their projects did not at all tally:
Some said, “Put a fence around the edge of the cliff”
Some, “An ambulance down in the valley.”
But the cry for the ambulance carried the day.
For it spread to the neighbouring city:
A fence may be useful or not, it is true,
But each heart became brimful of pity
For those who had slipped o’er that dangerous cliff,
And the dwellers in highway and alley
Gave pounds or gave pence, not to put up a fence,
But an ambulance down in the valley.
“For the cliff is alright if your careful,” they said,
“And if folks even slip or are dropping,
It isn’t the slipping that hurts them so much
As the shock down below - when they’re stopping,”
So day after day when these mishaps occurred,
Quick forth would the rescuers sally
To pick up the victims who fell off the cliff,
With their ambulance down in the valley.
Then an old man remarked, “It’s a marvel to me
That people give far more attention
To repairing results than to stopping the cause,
When they’d much better aim at prevention.
Let us stop at its source all this mischief, cried he.
“Come neighbours and friends, let us rally :
If the cliff we will fence, we might almost dispense
With the ambulance down in the valley.
“Oh, he’s a fanatic.” the others rejoined:
“Dispense with the ambulance Never!
He’d dispense with all charities, too, if he could:
No, no! We’ll support them forever.
Aren’t we picking up folks just as fast as they fall?
And shall this man dictate to us? Shall he?
Why would people of sense stop to put up a fence?
While their ambulance works in the valley?”
But a sensible few who are practical too,
Will not bear with such nonsense much longer
They believe that prevention is better than cure
And their party will soon be the stronger
Encourage them, then with your purse, voice and pen
And (while other philanthropists dally)
They will scorn all pretence, and put up a stout fence
On the cliff that hangs over the valley.
“When the Winter solstice happens in the Southern Hemisphere, the South Pole is inclined about 23.4° away from the Sun, with its vertical rays are overhead at their northernmost position, the Tropic of Cancer (23°27′ N).”
Lilian Alpha
How Grown Was My Lily
How does your gordon grow?
My lily of the lamplight
“A Song Of Love Is A Sad Song – “
Towering inferno
How Green Was My Lily
Water lily
Lily Marline
(L to R): Parri, Tadryn, Pella, Tauri
(from 2014)
It seems to be a little hoya?