Latin Proverbs App

Have the App-ian Way at Your Fingertips!

Enjoy proverbs from the Old World to the New Testament and beyond in English, Latin, or both languages, right on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

The Latin Proverbs app features:

1,188 proverbs, sayings, and mottoes from ancient to modern times.
Browse proverbs by subjects, authors (90+), or works (125+).
Get a different proverb every time you launch the app. View other proverbs with a swipe of your finger.
Read proverbs in English, Latin, English/Latin, or Latin/English. Change your preference at any time.
Latin contains macrons (long marks).
Proverbs include Classical Latin, Medieval Latin, and Vulgate, too!
Authors include: Julius Caesar, Cicero, Ovid, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Theodore Roosevelt, Vergil, and dozens more.
Selected works include quotations from: the Aeneid, Seneca's Epistles, Ovid's Metamorphoses, the Odes of Horace, Vulgate Latin versions of both Old and New Testaments, and many, many more.

Latin teachers are already using this app to provide a Latin quote-of-the-day to use with their students as a warm-up.

Use the app even if you don't know Latin. Stuck for a toast? Want to write something clever in a greeting card? Interested in reading some of the best one-liners of all time in English AND in Latin? Find the perfect expression in English (with Latin translation) at the right time in seconds with Latin Proverbs.

Reviews

This interesting little app, which costs $1.99 boasts to having some 1200 Latin proverbs contained within. When you start the app, you tap the screen and are presented with a new proverb everyday. Right now, e.g., I’m met with Bernard of Clairvaux’s dictum Necessitas non habet legem.

If you’re not satisfied with the random startup proverb, you can always swipe the screen and get another . . . If you’re looking for something on a specific topic, there is a search function with topics ranging from abstinence to year; you can also search by authors (ancient and less so) and work.

The proverbs themselves can be presented to you as Latin only, Latin with English translation, English only, or English with a Latin translation. All the Latin versions include, interestingly enough, macrons over the long vowels, suggesting Latin teachers might be a major target market for this one.

Outside of that, I’ve been playing with it for a few days and it functions exactly as advertised … an interesting way to start your day, whether a Latin teacher or not.

David Meadows, rogueclassicism

I've been wanting to brush up on my Latin, and this is a lovely way to have it to hand.

arcphd, iTunes

This is a well-designed, useful app for lovers of Latin (and anyone interested in classical literacy). Highly recommended.

Libera Sum, iTunes