What’s this? A Saturday Latin Insult actually posted on a Saturday? Yepper. I’m on the ball today, folks. It’s a shorty, but goody… one you may actually be able to memorize and use.

“Deformis Anusque”

–A twisted old hag

(Martial Epigrams VII.75)

Again, a Saturday Latin Insult… posted a day late.

I’m feeling a little disappointed in myself. My posts have been a little weak. My brain has been a little scattered. I’m lacking whatever the “it” is that writers struggle to maintain. Sometimes you’ve got “it”, and sometimes you don’t. “It” comes and goes. But for the moment, my “it” is missing… for sure. So today I pour on a little self-pity, Latin style. Today I ask you to run away… run from my blog. Flee. Save yourself from my incompetent prose and underdone ramblings.

“Qui gravis es nimium, potes hinc iam, abire quo libet”

–If you are likely to be the really pernickety type of reader, do you mind leaving now? Just head in the direction of absolutely anywhere else.

(Martial, Epigrams XI.16)

Somehow I have managed to catch a summer cold. What’s with that? How does one acquire a cold when it never gets below 89 degrees in one’s house all day and night? It’s a mystery for sure. But in my feverish, light-headed, NyQuil induced state of bluckiness, I completely forgot to post up a Saturday Latin Insult yesterday. (Darn you germs, I say as I sneeze.) So I thought it very appropriate to post a little insult about snot and germs:

“mala pituita nasi”

-Nasty nose-dripping!