Legenda: Proverbia de Asino

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Proverbia de Asino

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These proverbs about the Donkey (Asinus) are just one group of the large body of proverbs about donkeys in Latin! The donkey is both proverbially stupid, and he is also the embodiment of the long-suffering slave.

For more information about the donkey in Latin bestiaries, visit the Asinus in the Zoo. If you find some of the proverbs below difficult to understand, you will find some English translations at the Zoo page, along with many other proverbs!

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Asinus asinum fricat.	.
Asinum asellus culpat.
Asinus asino pulcher.
Ex auribus cognoscitur asinus.
Asinus ad lapidem non bis offendit eundem.	lapidem...eumdem: split phrase
Cibaria et virga et onus asino.
Asinus esuriens fustem neglegit.
Cognovit asinus praesaepe domini sui.
Altera mens asini, mens altera qui regit illum.	qui: relative pronoun, agreeing with implied dative eius (parallel to asini)
Asino gramen et baculus, servo panis et scutica.
Flagellum equo et camus asino et virga dorso stultorum.
Qui asinum non potest, stratum caedit.	qui: relative pronoun, agreeing with implied subject of caedit potest = potest caedere
Clitellam plectis, at fuerat plectendus asellus.
Qui caret asino, clitellam ne quaerat.	qui: relative pronoun, agreeing with implied subject of quaerat quaerat: subjunctive with ne
Onus segni impone asello.
Asinus balneatoris numquam particeps balnei.
Qui lavat asinum, perdit aquam et saponem.	qui: relative pronoun, agreeing with implied subject of perdit
Asini caput ne laves nitro.	laves: subjunctive with ne
In quo nascitur, asinus corio morietur.	quo: relative pronoun, agreeing with corio in gender and number (in quo corio) corio = in corio
Sepultura asini sepelietur.	septultura: ablative