Quote of the Day for 2016-08-07

"That same Man that renneth awaie, Maie again fight, an other daie."

— Demosthenes (384–322 BCE) Quoted by Plutarch in Moralia (cira 100 CE), which was translated into Latin by Erasmus in Apophthegmatum (1539), which in turn was partially translated into English by Nicholas Udall in Apophthegmes (1542)

"The Tale of Sir Robin" title card from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-11

"They named it Ovation from the Latin Ovis, [a sheep]."

— Plutarch (46-120) Parallel Lives, "Marcellus," section 22

Festa di Pales, o L'Estate by Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1783). After an Ovation the subject would sacrifice a sheep, as opposed to a triumph where the animal was an ox.