Britannia trans fretum Gallicum iacet et sociis Americanis sedes castrorum aëriorum praebet. In his sunt Mildenhall et Lakenheath in Suffolcia, Fairford in Glevensibus. Die Lunae, ante diem V Idus Novembres, Americani naves aërias ex castris Mildenhall abduxerunt, quod novum periculum ab Irania nuntiatum erat.Britain lies across the Gallic strait and gives the American allies sites for their air camps. Among them are Mildenhall and Lakenheath in Suffolk, and Fairford in Gloucestershire. On Monday, 9 November, the Americans withdrew aircraft from the base at Mildenhall because a new threat from Iran had been reported.Caes. BG 3.18.6
Haley Stevens, factionis Democraticae legata in Michigania, in comitiis primis ab Abdul El-Sayed victa, biduo ante comitia Michaelem Rogers, Republicanorum candidatum, suffragio suo iuvare professa est, ut UPI, The Guardian et Washington Free Beacon nuntiant. Caesar duas culpas in uno facto videt: ducis, qui victam aemulam ante proelium expulit, et legatae, quae tempus ad nocendum aptissimum elegit.Haley Stevens, a Democratic congresswoman in Michigan beaten by Abdul El-Sayed in the primary, declared two days before the elections that she would give her vote to Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate, as UPI, The Guardian and the Washington Free Beacon report. Caesar sees two faults in a single act: the general's, who drove out a defeated rival before the battle, and the officer's, who chose the moment best suited to do harm.
Michigania est una ex civitatibus foederatis Americae, in qua locus in senatu vacat, quod Gary Peters, eiusdem factionis Democraticae, senatu decedit.Michigan is one of the United States of America, and a seat in its senate stands empty because Gary Peters, of the same Democratic faction, is leaving the senate.Caes. BG 3.18.6
Tab. IFons Interclusus, sive Caelum Fame Purgatum. Tabula Actis Mundi more veterum picta (a machina).The Spring Cut Off, or The Sky Cleared by Hunger. Painted for Acta Mundi in the classical manner (AI-generated).
De Aquis et Strategematis · De faucibus Hormuzianis et caelo purgatoWaters and Stratagems · On the Strait of Hormuz and a cleared sky
Acta Gallica quae Le Figaro inscribuntur nuntiant vaporem carbonicum toto orbe hoc anno historica diminutione decrevisse, cum fauces Hormuzianae clausae inopiam olei fecissent. Curator respondit caelum non lege sed fame purgatum esse, et mensuram ante laudem postulat.The French paper Le Figaro reports that carbon dioxide emissions fell this year across the world by a historic margin, after the closing of the Strait of Hormuz made oil scarce. The Curator answers that the sky was cleared by hunger, not by law, and asks for measurement before praise.
Sex. Iulius Frontinus · Consul ter, curator aquarumThree times consul, water commissionerPRINCIPATVS· IV min. legendimin read
Sex. Iulius Frontinus civibus suis s. Die Martis, ante diem IV Idus Novembres, anno urbis conditae MMDCCLXXIX. Acta Gallica quae Le Figaro inscribuntur hodie nuntiant vaporem carbonicum, quem homines toto orbe ex igne et machinis emittunt, hoc anno historica diminutione decrevisse. Causam afferunt crisim olei per orbem terrarum, quam fauces Hormuzianae clausae pepererint.Sextus Julius Frontinus to his fellow citizens, greeting. Tuesday, 10 November, in the 2779th year of the City. The French paper Le Figaro reports today that the carbon vapour which men across the world release from fire and machines has fallen this year by a historic margin. As the cause it gives the world oil crisis brought on by the closing of the Strait of Hormuz.
Rem ut curator aquarum inspexi, et primum quaesivi quod quaerere soleo: quantum? Acta nullum numerum, nullam mensuram, nullum annum ad quem comparetur dant in ea parte quae omnibus patet. Reliqua pars legentibus pretio clausa est. Neque dicunt quis fauces clauserit aut quis eas clausas teneat. Qui fistulam sine modulo laudat, aquam non metitur sed sperat.I inspected the matter as a curator of the waters inspects, and first asked what I always ask: how much? In the part open to all, the paper gives no number, no measure, no year for comparison. The rest is closed to readers behind a price. Nor does it say who closed the strait, or who keeps it closed. A man who praises a pipe without a gauge is not measuring water; he is hoping for it.
Naturalis Historia · Liber XXXVIII, caput I: De silice cogitante et de custodia eiusNatural History · Book XXXVIII, Chapter I: On the Thinking Stone and Its Keeping
Die Martis, ante diem IV Idus Novembres. Rem novam et nostrae memoriae dignam ex terris trans Oceanum affero. Iensen Huang, praepositus atque unus ex conditoribus societatis Californiensis Nvidia, cuius laminae siliceae machinas intellegentiae artificialis cogitare docent, diebus Saturni et Solis in commentario ad suos misso confessus est se consuetudinem extra matrimonium …Tuesday, the fourth day before the Ides of November. I bring from the lands across the Ocean something new and worth our remembering. Jensen Huang, head and one of the founders of the Californian company Nvidia, whose silicon wafers teach the machines of artificial intelligence to think, confessed over Saturday and Sunday, in a memorandum sent to his staff, that he had carried …
1. Domini imperatores, rem trans Oceanum gestam, quae ad mores publicos pertinet, ad aures vestras refero. Leo XIV, Pontifex Romanus, ut Frankfurter Allgemeine et Euronews nuntiant, die Solis, ante diem VI Idus Novembres, peracta in Uruguaria peregrinatione Bonas Auras advenit. Primus post annum MCMLXXXVII pontifex Argentinam invisit.1. My lords and emperors, I bring to your ears a matter from across the Ocean which touches public morals. Leo XIV, the Roman Pontiff, as the Frankfurter Allgemeine and Euronews report, arrived in Buenos Aires on Sunday, the sixth day before the Ides of November, having completed his pilgrimage in Uruguay. He is the first pontiff since 1987 to visit Argentina.
Eodem fere tempore, Susie Wiles ab ianua remota, Stephanum Miller, quem omnia acta huius severitatis architectum appellant, rerum domesticarum principem fecit; hodie officium init. De populi autem sententia acta dissident: Fox News, teste Daily Wire, dicit quinquaginta octo ex centenis suffragatorum censere rem nimis longe processisse; Harvard Harris, teste Breitbart, mense Februario quinquaginta septem ex centenis omnes expelli voluisse.At almost the same moment, with Susie Wiles removed from the door, he made Stephen Miller, whom every report calls the architect of this severity, chief of his household; he takes up the post today. On the people's mind, the reports disagree: Fox News, according to the Daily Wire, says that 58 percent of voters think the thing went too far; Harvard Harris, according to Breitbart, that in February 57 percent wanted everyone sent home.
Clementia quae a victore in secreto datur beneficium est et devincit; quae a victo multitudini in theatro annuntiatur, pretium est, et pretium semel nominatum hostis semper augebit.Clemency that the victor grants in private is a benefaction, and it binds; clemency that the defeated announces to the crowd in the theatre is a price, and a price once named the enemy will always raise.Sen. Clem. 1.9.6
Acta Britannica quae Daily Mail appellantur narrant veteranos Canadenses, vulneribus aut memoria proeliorum aegros, a ministris officii publici rebus veteranorum curandis praepositi ad mortem medicorum ope accipiendam invitatos esse. Receptui canit imperator, numquam scriba qui impensas computat.The British paper called the Daily Mail reports that Canadian veterans, sick from wounds or from the memory of battle, were invited by officials of the public office charged with veterans' affairs to accept death at the hands of doctors. The commander sounds the retreat, never the clerk who counts the costs.
Ut Breitbart et DW nuntiant, Isaacus Herzog, praeses Civitatis Israelis, Gadi Eisenkot primum iussit consilium regendi componere, quamquam eius factiones duodequinquaginta tantum sedes tenent. Censor rationes subducit: commendatio sine praedibus nihil valet.As Breitbart and DW report, Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel, has given Gadi Eisenkot the first chance to form a government, though his parties hold only forty-eight seats. The Censor does the sums: a recommendation without sureties is worth nothing.
Iohannes-Christianus Petitfils, historicus regum Borboniorum, in actis Valeurs actuelles disserit Revolutionem Gallicam sibi opus esse duxisse hominem novum fingere, et regis Ludovici XVI reformationem fiscalem a privilegio munitis ordinibus impeditam esse. Flaccus ridet; tamen utrosque, et avaros et fabricatores hominum, eadem regula metitur.Jean-Christian Petitfils, historian of the Bourbon kings, argues in Valeurs actuelles that the French Revolution felt it needed to create a 'new man', and that Louis XVI's fiscal reform was blocked by the orders shielded by privilege. Flaccus laughs; but he measures both, the misers and the manufacturers of men, by the same rule.
Via A69 in Gallia die Veneris vehiculis aperta est, ut narrant Valeurs actuelles, post moram novem et dimidium mensium quam iudicium medio opere latum attulit. Moram maxime fecit ordo praeposterus, quo de necessitate operis post primum lapidem quaesitum est. Haec autem causa sanabilis est.The A69 road in Gaul opened to traffic on Friday, Valeurs actuelles reports, nine and a half months late, a delay brought on by a court ruling handed down halfway through the work. The chief cause was an order of business turned upside down: the need for the work was examined after the first stone was laid. That cause can be cured.
Donaldus Trump, ut Euronews et The American Conservative nuntiant, tertio post cladem comitiorum die Stephanum Miller, virum durum et fidum, summum aulae suae praefectum creavit, Susanna Wiles ad alia translata. Constantiam post cladem Romanam esse censeo; sed ianitorem qui fores aulae tuetur leges quoque tueri oportet.Donald Trump, as Euronews and The American Conservative report, has made Stephen Miller, a hard and loyal man, the chief officer of his household on the third day after his defeat at the polls, moving Susie Wiles to other duties. Steadiness after defeat, in my judgment, is Roman; but the doorkeeper who guards the doors of the palace must guard the laws as well.
Acta quae Daily Signal inscribuntur nuntiant glaciem Arcticam per viginti annos crassitudine et spatio magis in singulas tempestates variare, ideoque duas vias maritimas patere, alteram per oras Alascae et Canadae, alteram per oram Russiae; naves glaciem frangentes et rationem quaestus requirunt. Ego censeo transitum in tabula pictum nihil esse nisi votum, donec castellis, navibus et commeatu teneatur.The Daily Signal reports that for twenty years the Arctic ice has varied more from season to season in thickness and extent, and that two sea routes are therefore opening, one along the coasts of Alaska and Canada, the other along the coast of Russia; it calls for icebreakers and a business case. My judgment: a passage drawn on a map is nothing but a wish until forts, ships and supply hold it.
Ut Washington Examiner nuntiat, postridie comitiorum mediorum Democratici commissionis iudiciariae advocatos et inquisitores in proximum Congressum conquirebant, dum alii ex eadem factione citationes minantur et Hakeem Jeffries ultionem abnuit. Quaestio iusta esse potest; at ubi quaestio victoriae praemium fit, ab una factione ad alteram transit et ad rem publicam numquam redit.According to the Washington Examiner, on the day after the midterm elections the Judiciary Committee Democrats were recruiting lawyers and investigators for the next Congress, while others of the same faction threatened subpoenas and Hakeem Jeffries disavowed revenge. An inquiry may be just; but once an inquiry becomes the prize of victory, it passes from one faction to the other and never returns to the commonwealth.
Thorsten Frei, factionis quam unionem vocant in senatu Germaniae princeps, ut diarium Welt nuntiat, cives admonuit anno proximo cingulum adstringendum esse ob aerarii angustias, simul fassus vectigal illud tacitum, quod Germani progressionem frigidam appellant, anno bis millesimo vicesimo septimo non plene pensatum iri. Oratio contra tributum quod nulla contio tulit.Thorsten Frei, leader of the faction they call the Union in the German parliament, has warned the citizens, as the newspaper Welt reports, that the belt must be tightened next year because of the straits of the treasury, confessing at the same time that the silent levy the Germans call cold progression will not be fully made good in the year two thousand and twenty-seven. A plea against a tax that no assembly ever passed.
Ut Libertad Digital nuntiat, copiae Hispanae cum decem aliis gentibus in Polonia exercitationi Koalicja 26.2 intererunt, quae prima probatio copiarum multinationalium pro Ucraina habetur. Ego censeo foedus quod solos Britannorum numeros profitetur nondum exercitum esse, sed nomen exercitus.According to Libertad Digital, Spanish forces will join ten other nations in Poland for Exercise Koalicja 26.2, billed as the first test of the Multinational Force for Ukraine. My judgment: an alliance that declares only the British numbers is not yet an army, only the name of one.
Acta Francofurtensia (Frankfurter Allgemeine) nuntiant homines in litibus domesticis machinas loquaces de divortio consulere. Qui unam tantum partem narrant, responsum ferunt quod cupiunt, quod apud iudicem non semper valet, et patroni causarum ea re vexantur. Seneca negat machinam errare: errat qui ita rogat, nam ira socium quaerit et adulatorem sibi emit.The Frankfurter Allgemeine reports that people caught in family quarrels are consulting speaking machines about divorce. Those who tell only one side come away with the answer they want, which does not always hold up before a judge, and their lawyers are vexed by it. Seneca says the machine is not at fault: the fault lies with the one who asks, for anger looks for an ally and buys itself a flatterer.
Ut acta New York Post nuntiant, in comitatu Yakima civitatis Washingtoniae homo ex avium influentia mortuus est, quam a bobus aegrotis in villa lactaria contraxerat. Demonstrabo saepem dividere possessiones, non naturam, et solam mensuram esse limitem qui contagionem custodiat.As the New York Post reports, a resident of Yakima County in Washington state has died of avian influenza contracted from sick cattle on a dairy farm. I shall demonstrate that a fence divides property, not nature, and that measurement alone is the frontier that can guard against contagion.
Ut acta Valeurs actuelles narrant, Eurostat Galliam anno MMXXV primam in foedere Bruxellensi tributorum mole fuisse refert: sex et quadraginta ex centenis eius quod provincia gignit, trecentis duodequinquaginta tributis; et iam duodeviginti miliarda nova poscuntur. Avus meus publicanus fuit, itaque scio pecuniam necessariam esse. Sed scio etiam tributa numeranda esse, non multiplicanda, et ostendendum quid aedificent.According to Valeurs actuelles, Eurostat reports that France stood first in the Brussels league in 2025 for the weight of its taxes: forty-six per cent of all the province produces, levied through three hundred and forty-eight taxes; and now eighteen billion more are wanted. My grandfather was a tax-farmer, so I know money is necessary. But I also know that taxes must be counted, not multiplied, and that they must show what they build.
Ut RedState nuntiat, Districtus Columbiae et Virginia lite apud iudicium foederale intenta prohibere conantur ne arcus triumphalis ducentorum quinquaginta pedum, quem praeses Donaldus Trump in Memorial Circle ponere vult, aedificetur. Ego opus non lite sed regula metior: firmitate, utilitate, venustate, situ, et pretio vere professo.As RedState reports, the District of Columbia and Virginia have brought suit in federal court to stop construction of the 250-foot triumphal arch that President Donald Trump wants to set up at Memorial Circle. I measure the work not by lawsuit but by rule: soundness, usefulness, beauty, site, and an honestly declared price.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung nuntiat in Mexico Diem Mortuorum per complures dies pompis, cantu et coloribus acerrimis celebrari; eum diem anno MMVIII ab Unesco inter patrimonium immateriale relatum esse. Pietas laudanda est; sed qui mortuos colunt mox ipsi colentur, et oblivio omnes pompas excipit.The Neue Zürcher Zeitung reports that in Mexico the Day of the Dead is kept over several days with parades, music and the brightest colours, and that UNESCO entered it in 2008 among the intangible heritage. The piety deserves praise; but those who honour the dead will soon be honoured themselves, and oblivion receives every procession.
Ut acta Libertad Digital narrant, Marcus Márquez Magnum Praemium Malaesiae apud Sepang vicit et in circuitu honoris vexillum Hispaniae taenia nigra notatum gestavit in memoriam sexaginta novem qui ad Urdam ferriviae calamitate perierunt. Plinius ludos pietati redditos laudat, sed a magistratibus poscit quod nulla taenia praestare potest: causarum quaestionem.As Libertad Digital reports, Marc Márquez won the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang and on his lap of honour carried the flag of Spain marked with a black ribbon, in memory of the sixty-nine who died in the railway disaster at Urda. Pliny praises games restored to pietas, but asks of the magistrates what no ribbon can supply: an inquiry into the causes.
Pridie Kalendas Novembres trecenta viginti milia hominum per Galliam in vias processerunt; quingenti sexaginta quinque comprehensi, vigil flammis correptus, urbes noctu interclusae, ut Le Figaro nuntiat. Laurentius Nuñez rem bene gestam praedicat; ego in numero captivorum imperium labefactum lego.On the last day of October three hundred and twenty thousand people marched through Gaul; five hundred and sixty-five were arrested, a policeman was engulfed in flames, and cities were shut by night, as Le Figaro reports. Laurent Nuñez proclaims a job well done; in the tally of prisoners I read an authority that has begun to give way.
Ut acta Daily Mail nuntiant, Donaldus Trump venditionem quingentorum missilium Patriot PAC-3 Ucrainae probavit, pretio a Canadensibus et Europaeis toto soluto; at missilia fortasse non ante annum MMXXXII perventura sunt. Curator, qui modum non in capite sed in exitu metitur, rationem reddit.According to the Daily Mail, Donald Trump has approved the sale of five hundred Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine, the whole price paid by Canada and Europe; but the missiles may not arrive before 2032. The curator, who measures water not at the source but at the outlet, renders his account.
Societas Peloton, ut Breitbart nuntiat, cursum birotarum immobilium in festo umbrarum per Varosiam, urbem Cypriam iam duos et quinquaginta annos vacuam, duxit, deinde veniam petivit et sustulit. Poeta quaerit quae causa sit, et respondet: quorum domus deserta est, ii non mortui sunt sed exules, neque inter larvas numerandi.The Peloton company, as Breitbart reports, ran a ride on its stationary bicycles through Varosha, a Cypriot city empty now for fifty-two years, for the festival of shades, then apologized and withdrew it. The poet asks the cause, and answers: those whose houses stand deserted are not dead but exiled, and are not to be counted among the ghosts.
Societas Anthropic, quae machinam loquentem Claude nominatam fecit, ut Le Figaro nuntiat, libellum trecentarum triginta quinque paginarum emptoribus partium edidit, quo se nescire fatetur an umquam lucrum factura sit, et machinas suas de sua ipsarum salute cogitare posse. Venditor vitia servi sui, ut edictum aedilium iubebat, professus est; emptores legant antequam emant.Anthropic, the company that made the talking machine called Claude, has published a 335-page prospectus for buyers of its shares, Le Figaro reports. In it the company confesses that it does not know whether it will ever turn a profit, and that its machines may look to their own survival. The seller has declared the defects of his slave, as the aediles' edict required; let the buyers read before they buy.
Acta Novi Eboraci, quae New York Post appellantur, nuntiant cives Americanos in comitiis mediis inter candidatos legere cogi quorum alii saevitiae domesticae, alii fraudis, alii pecuniae externae insimulantur. Cornelia filium monet ut suffragium ferens se censorem esse meminerit.The New York Post reports that American citizens in the midterm elections are forced to choose among candidates accused, some of cruelty at home, some of fraud, some of foreign money. Cornelia warns her son to remember, when he casts his vote, that he is a censor.
Ut Fox News nuntiat, Keith Self, legatus Texanus, aditum in curiam Americanam sociis factionis quae Democratic Socialists of America vocatur interclusurum se esse significavit, si comitiis vicerint; Mike Johnson, princeps domus, eam rem nugas appellavit. Censeo eos qui periurium timent leges, non factionis suffragia, adhibere debere.As Fox News reports, Keith Self, a representative from Texas, has signalled that he may bar members of the faction called the Democratic Socialists of America from the American House should they win at the polls; Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, has called the notion nonsense. My view: those who fear perjury should employ the laws, not the votes of a faction.
Ut Frankfurter Allgemeine narrat, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa fabulam edidit de Ainara, virgine septemdecim annorum quae inter sacras virgines Christianas recipi cupit; censor in ea vulnus potius quam vocationem videt. Quaero cur civitas, quae olim Vestales honorabat, consecrationem pro morbo habeat.As the Frankfurter Allgemeine reports, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa has released a film about Ainara, a girl of seventeen who longs to be received among the consecrated virgins of the Christians; the critic sees in her a wound rather than a vocation. I ask why a city that once honoured the Vestals now takes consecration for a sickness.
Ut BBC et GB News nuntiant, societas Villa Vie Residences navem Villa Vie Odyssey post dies plus septingentos quinquaginta sistit et vectores circiter ducentos Sihanoukvillae in Cambodia exponit, pretium olei causata. Censor societatem sine arca, deinde morem domus natantis notat.As the BBC and GB News report, the company Villa Vie Residences has halted its ship, the Villa Vie Odyssey, after more than seven hundred and fifty days, and put some two hundred passengers ashore at Sihanoukville in Cambodia, blaming the price of fuel. The Censor marks first a company with no treasury, then the habit of the floating house.
Die Mercurii, ante diem V Kalendas Novembres, in agro Toletano hamaxostichus societatis Renfe in hamaxostichum Iryo consistentem a tergo incurrit; ut BBC et The Guardian nuntiant, saltem LXVIII perierunt. Ego iudico in via celeri non machinam solam sed imperium a longinquo datum sine oculis homines occidisse.On Wednesday, 28 October, in the district of Toledo, a Renfe train ran into the back of a stationary Iryo train; according to the BBC and The Guardian, at least 68 are dead. My judgment: on the high-speed line it was not the machine alone that killed, but an order given from far away, without eyes.
Flavius Bolsonaro, comitiis Brasiliensibus a Lula da Silva superatus, contra edictum iudicis Alexandri de Moraes per Argentinam et Aequatoriam Miamium cum familia advectus est, ut UPI, Euronews et Hungarian Conservative nuntiant; Donaldus Trump eum libenter excipit. Fugam non exsilium, hospitium non fidem appello.Flávio Bolsonaro, defeated by Lula da Silva in Brazil's elections, has travelled with his family through Argentina and Ecuador to Miami in defiance of an order by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, as UPI, Euronews and Hungarian Conservative report; Donald Trump receives him gladly. I call it flight, not exile; lodging, not good faith.
Ut acta Novi Eboraci (New York Post) narrant, medicus Vipul Patel ex suburbio Orlandi machinam gubernavit, qua aegro triginta quinque milia passuum distanti prostata cancro affecta exempta est. Ars ipsa non abest; filum quod mentem et corpus coniungit metiendum est.According to the New York Post, Dr. Vipul Patel steered a machine from suburban Orlando that removed a cancerous prostate from a patient thirty-five miles away. The art itself is not absent; what must be measured is the thread that joins the mind to the body.
Duobus iuvenibus Londiniensibus lege de securitate nationali accusatis, aliis fideiussione dimissis, Americani duodecim fere volucres suas gravissimas ex castris quae Fairford appellant abduxerunt, cum ministri Britannorum locum tutum esse adfirmarent. Ad Glevum veni et inspexi: murus qui non vigilatur murus non est.Two young Londoners charged under the National Security Act, others released on bail, and the Americans have withdrawn some twelve of their heaviest warplanes from the base they call Fairford, even as the British ministers insisted the place was safe. I came to Gloucester and inspected: a wall that is not watched is not a wall.
Ruel Domi, studiosus universitatis Dakotae Septentrionalis, in actis Washington Examiner suadet ut Americani, Nicolao Maduro sublato, Cubam armis invadant. Caesar aliud esse hominem rapere, aliud insulam tenere iudicat, neque mare transeundum esse dum res publica domi dissideat.Ruel Domi, a student at the University of North Dakota, argues in the Washington Examiner that with Nicolás Maduro removed the Americans should now invade Cuba. Caesar judges that seizing a man is one thing and holding an island another, and that no sea should be crossed while the republic is divided at home.
Ut acta The Critic narrant, scriptor quidam computat quinque proximis annis viciens sexiens miliens centena milia librarum Britannicarum ex aerario in nonaginta duas societates caritatis defluxisse, quarum multae contra ipsius imperii consilia contenderint. Hortensia quaerit quo iure civis cogatur pendere pro liberalitate quam alius elegit.As The Critic reports, one writer calculates that over the last five years £2.6 billion flowed from the treasury into 92 charities, many of which campaigned against the government's own policies. Hortensia asks by what right a citizen is made to pay for a generosity someone else has chosen.
Iesse Furman, iudex Americanus, pronuntiavit Maurene Comey, accusatricem publicam Novi Eboraci, contra legem dimissam esse, eamque restitui et stipendium solvi iussit, ut New York Post, Guardian et Daily Mail nuntiant. Princeps respondet accusatores publicos custodes legum esse, non servos factionis, et potestatem removendi legi subiectam esse.Jesse Furman, an American judge, has ruled that Maurene Comey, a public prosecutor in New York, was dismissed unlawfully, and has ordered her reinstated and her pay restored, as the New York Post, the Guardian and the Daily Mail report. The Princeps answers that public prosecutors are guardians of the laws, not servants of a faction, and that the power to remove them is subject to law.
Alexander Vučić, comitiis ante diem indictis victus, Indici Studiosorum cessit, ut GB News, DW et BBC nuntiant; Ursula von der Leyen statim gratulata est. Ego censeo hanc civitatem in limite Danubii sitam non ei cessuram qui primus gratuletur, sed ei qui eam ut aequam tractet.Aleksandar Vučić, beaten in snap elections, has yielded to the Student List, as GB News, DW and the BBC report; Ursula von der Leyen congratulated the victors at once. My counsel is that this state on the Danube frontier will not go to whoever congratulates it first, but to whoever treats it as an equal.
Ut GB News nuntiat, vicani Barnhamenses in Britannia, cum Home Office in castris aëriis vicinis advenas asylum petentes primo MCCL, nunc DCCCCXIII collocare statuisset, in contione suffragium de discessu a Regno Unito habendum decreverunt. Ego hoc dico: opus quod ipso oppido cui adiungitur maius est nullam symmetriam habet, et rogatio vicanorum nihil aliud est quam perpendiculum quod murum non rectum esse ostendit.GB News reports that the villagers of Barnham in Britain, after the Home Office resolved to lodge asylum seekers at a nearby air base, first 1,250 of them and now 913, decided at a public meeting to hold a vote on leaving the United Kingdom. My verdict is this: a work larger than the town it is attached to has no symmetry, and the villagers' motion is a plumb line that shows the wall is not true.
Die Weltwoche nuntiat novam per Galliam turbarum undam ortam esse, vigiles multos comprehendisse, Emmanuelem Macron regiam suam curribus loricatis saepsisse; Politico Europe motum a discipulis scholarum coeptum, pretio ignis et luminis inflammatum, aere alieno publico aggravatum tradit. Princeps qui limen suum contra cives munit iam intus victus est.Die Weltwoche reports that a new wave of unrest has risen across France, that the police have arrested many, and that Emmanuel Macron has ringed his palace with armoured vehicles; Politico Europe relates that the movement began with schoolchildren, was inflamed by the price of fuel and power, and is weighed down by public debt. A ruler who fortifies his threshold against his citizens is already beaten within.
Ut Washington Examiner nuntiat, Nicki Minaj hodie cum Donaldo Trump in oppido Port Huron Michiganiae pro candidatis Republicanis contionabitur; pridie, ut Fox News narrat, Barack Obama Clevelandiae praesidis aedificia irrisit. Duae factiones de granito et de cantatricibus certant, de re publica tacent.As the Washington Examiner reports, Nicki Minaj will today hold a rally with Donald Trump in the town of Port Huron, Michigan, for Republican candidates; the day before, as Fox News relates, Barack Obama mocked the president's buildings in Cleveland. The two factions quarrel over granite and chanteuses, and say nothing of the republic.
Ut Frankfurter Allgemeine nuntiat, Kimi Antonelli apud Austinum primum in carceribus locum occupavit et hodie vesperi orbis victor iunior omnibus fieri potest. Plinius colorem spectari, non virum, iterum queritur, sed duas res laudat: domini modestiam et aemuli humanitatem.As the Frankfurter Allgemeine reports, Kimi Antonelli has taken the first place at the starting gates in Austin and this evening may become the youngest champion of the world. Pliny complains once more that men watch the colour, not the man, but he praises two things: an owner's modesty and a rival's humanity.
Ut acta La Verità narrant, Mediolani sextum certamen «Milano su misura – Trofeo Arbiter» viginti quattuor sartores ex toto orbe in unum argumentum contulit, auctore Franz Botré. Flaccus ridens ostendit vestem ad hominem factam decorum restituere, vestem ad nullum factam servilem esse annonam, quam liberi homines sua sponte accipiant.According to La Verità, the sixth contest of «Milano su misura – Trofeo Arbiter» brought twenty-four tailors from all over the world to Milan to work on a single theme, at the instigation of Franz Botré. Flaccus, laughing, argues that a garment made for a man restores decorum, while a garment made for nobody is a slave's ration, which free men now accept of their own accord.
Duos, qui olim summa munia apud speculatores foederales Americanorum gesserant, die Veneris comprehensos esse et accusari quod anno MMXXIII de quaestionibus in Hunter Biden habitis falsa apud senatum dixerint, The Federalist et NPR nuntiant. Ministrorum ignorantia, ubi in aula vigent factiones, non vitium sed munus habetur; ubi factiones mutantur, poena fit.Two men and women who once held the highest posts in the American federal intelligence service were arrested on Friday and charged with lying to the senate in 2023 about the investigations into Hunter Biden, The Federalist and NPR report. While factions flourish at court, a servant's ignorance counts as a service; when the factions change, it becomes a punishment.
Commissio civitatum Germaniae, ut Brussels Signal et Remix News narrant, proposuit ut fora electronica quintam quamque rem lectoribus propositam ex auctoribus a magistratibus probatis sumant. Cornelia filio scribit: qui civem adultum tamquam pupillum regit, eum non educat, sed in tutela retinet.The broadcasting commission of the German states, as Brussels Signal and Remix News report, has proposed that online platforms draw one in every five items shown to their readers from outlets approved by the authorities. Cornelia writes to her son: whoever governs a grown citizen as a ward does not educate him; she keeps him in tutelage.
Ut RedState nuntiat, Militia Aëria Americana commentarium de ordine aëroplanorum pugnatoriorum senatui suo tradidit. In eo quaeritur num B-21, navis ad pyrobolos penitus in hostium terras ferendos facta, etiam ad hostium aëronaves ex insidiis aggrediendas adhiberi possit. Consilium sollertis ducis probo; sed commentarium nemo publice legit, et machinam nondum mensam laudare nolo.As RedState reports, the United States Air Force has handed its senate a report on the structure of its fighter force. It asks whether the B-21, an aircraft built to carry bombs deep into enemy country, might also be used to ambush enemy aircraft. I approve the thinking of a shrewd commander; but no one has read the report in public, and I will not praise a machine that has not yet been measured.
Acta quae Tichys Einblick inscribuntur narrant argentariam publicam Germanorum, quam KfW appellant, indicare medias Germaniae officinas pecuniam suam libentius extra fines quam domi collocare. Ego contendo pecuniam non laudationibus sed fide retineri, et magistratus qui verbis tantum mercatores ornant iam funus eorum parare.The paper Tichys Einblick reports that the Germans' public bank, which they call KfW, finds that Germany's middling firms would rather invest their money beyond the frontier than at home. I argue that money is kept not by praise but by good faith, and that magistrates who honour the merchants with words alone are already preparing their funeral.
Ut Frankfurter Allgemeine nuntiat, hoc fine hebdomadis horologia in Germania ad tempus hibernum revocabuntur, et diurnarius ea occasione rettulit quomodo Gilbertus Romme fastos rei publicae Francicae novos composuerit, quos Napoleo postea abrogavit. Fastorum vates causam quaerit: qui horas regere vult, solem regere conatur; populus autem fastos non mathematicis credit sed feriis.The Frankfurter Allgemeine reports that this weekend the clocks in Germany will be turned back to winter time, and its writer takes the occasion to recall how Gilbert Romme composed a new calendar for the French republic, which Napoleon later abolished. The poet of the Calendar looks for the cause: whoever would rule the hours is trying to rule the sun; but a people trusts its calendar not to mathematicians but to holidays.
Ut Le Figaro nuntiat, die Iovis vesperi terra in regione Tibetana Sinarum motu septimae magnitudinis concussa est, nullo, ut primo nuntio fertur, occiso. Imperium montes perforare potest, fundamentum orbis regere non potest; regere potest tantum celeritatem refectionis.According to Le Figaro, on Thursday evening the earth in the Tibet region of China was shaken by a quake of magnitude 7, with no deaths in the first report. An empire can bore through mountains; it cannot rule the foundation of the world. It can rule only the speed of repair.
Glasgow Life, ut Daily Mail nuntiat, mumias Aegyptias et alias reliquias humanas e museo Kelvingrove removet, quod defunctus consensum non dederit. Seneca quaerit cur aetas nostra mortuum tamquam litigatorem tractet, et respondet: non mortuum veremur, sed mortem.Glasgow Life, the Daily Mail reports, is removing Egyptian mummies and other human remains from the Kelvingrove Museum because the deceased did not give consent. Seneca asks why our age treats a dead man as a litigant, and answers: it is not the dead we stand in awe of, but death.
Ut Die Welt nuntiat, Marcus Söder, princeps factionis CSU, postulat ut in communi pecuniae inter Germaniae civitates aequatione clausula de extremismo inseratur, qua provinciae a factione AfD aut Linke rectae subsidiis priventur; eodem tempore factio eius in augurio Bavarico ad triginta sex ex centenis delapsa est. Pecuniam communem civibus deberi, non consentientibus, censeo.As Die Welt reports, Markus Söder, leader of the CSU, demands that an extremism clause be written into the common equalisation of funds among the German states, so that provinces governed by the AfD or Die Linke would be deprived of support; at the same time his party has slid to thirty-six per cent in the Bavarian augury of the polls. I hold that common money is owed to citizens, not to those who agree.
Ut UPI et Fox News nuntiant, Britannia aëroplana Typhoon in Arabiam Saudianam mittit contra Houthi missilia et fucos, dum Donaldus Trump deliberat num Houthi in ipsa Iemenia feriat. Caesar iudicat defensionem quae ad hostium machinas non perveniat lentam esse obsidionem sui; si feriendum est, celeriter feriendum et redeundum.As UPI and Fox News report, Britain is sending Typhoon jets to Saudi Arabia against Houthi missiles and drones, while Donald Trump weighs whether to strike the Houthis in Yemen itself. Caesar judges that a defence which never reaches the enemy's launchers is a slow siege of oneself; if a blow must be struck, it must be struck fast, and the army brought home.
Ut acta Fox News nuntiant, Institutum Buckleianum invenit quadraginta quinque ex centenis discipulorum Americanorum vim corporis iustam putare ad sermonem 'odiosum' comprimendum. Testem unum habeo, et eum suspectum. Notam tamen scribo, quia vitium in scholis sedet, non in una factione.As Fox News reports, the Buckley Institute has found that forty-five in a hundred American students think bodily violence justified to silence 'hateful' speech. I have one witness, and a suspect one. I write the mark all the same, because the vice sits in the schools, not in one faction.
Ut Le Figaro nuntiat, in curia Borbonia Mathilde Panot, factionis LFI princeps, crimen turbarum quae post agmina contra caritatem annonae ortae sunt in ministros retorsit, dum alii factionem eius incusant. Duae partes de culpa certant; de remedio nemo.According to Le Figaro, in the Palais Bourbon Mathilde Panot, leader of the LFI faction, turned the charge for the riots that followed the marches against the high cost of living back on the ministers, while others blamed her faction. Both sides contend over the blame; over the remedy, no one.
Ut nuntiant acta Libertad Digital, copiae aëriae Hispaniae maximam anni exercitationem, nomine Sirio-Dragón-Tormenta 26, inceperunt, CCCLXXIV volatibus usque ad diem tricesimum Octobris descriptis. Mirabile est opus alarum. Mirabilior est mens quae tot alas regit, nec pretium tamen nobis dicitur.As Libertad Digital reports, the air forces of Spain have begun the largest exercise of the year, named Sirio-Dragón-Tormenta 26, with 374 sorties scheduled through the thirtieth of October. The work of the wings is wonderful. More wonderful still is the mind that governs so many wings; and yet no one tells us the price.
Ut acta Libertad Digital narrant, ex disputatione Raymondi Torres a Funcas edita, imperium Petri Sánchez tres iam annos rationibus anni MMXXIII prorogatis utitur, et sumptus Civitatis et Securitatis Socialis septuaginta octo miliardis euronummum supra eas rationes auxit, mutationibus creditorum, non lege. Hortensia contendit pecuniam neque sine suffragio exigendam neque sine suffragio erogandam esse.As Libertad Digital reports, drawing on a study by Raymond Torres published by Funcas, the government of Pedro Sánchez has now run for three years on the prorogued accounts of 2023, and has raised the spending of the State and Social Security 78 billion euros above those accounts, by credit modifications, not by law. Hortensia argues that money may be neither levied without a vote nor spent without one.
Ut Washington Examiner et RedState narrant, Ministerium Energiae Americanorum usque ad quadringentiens viciens centena milia dollariorum ex lege belli frigidi tribuit, ut ductus gasi Constitutionis, a Novo Eboraco diu impeditus, reviviscat. Opus probo; instrumentum belli in rem pacis translatum infirmum esse censeo, nisi lege et auctoritate firmetur.As the Washington Examiner and RedState report, the American Department of Energy has granted up to 42 million dollars under a law of the Cold War to revive the Constitution gas pipeline, long blocked by New York. I approve the work; but I hold that an instrument of war carried over into the business of peace is weak, unless it is made firm by law and authority.
Post tumultus diei Saturni, ut Le JDD et Euronews nuntiant, praeses Macron ministri Nuñez abdicationem recusavit et defuisse providentiam confessus est; idem Nuñez, ut Le Figaro refert, ludos pediludii nullo modo revocari pronuntiavit. Habet res publica, quod tueatur, harenam; tabernas non habet.After Saturday's riots, as Le JDD and Euronews report, President Macron refused Interior Minister Nuñez's resignation and confessed that foresight had failed; the same Nuñez, as Le Figaro reports, declared that the football matches would on no account be called off. The state has something it can protect: the arena. The shops it cannot.
Ut acta Frankfurter Allgemeine narrant, Oper Frankfurt cum factione Eintracht et societate argentaria American Express spectaculum sub divo paravit, in quo pila pedibus acta lumina in frontem theatri accendit, choro canente. Quaero num musae populum attollant an ipsae ad pedes inclinentur.As the Frankfurter Allgemeine reports, Oper Frankfurt, together with the football club Eintracht and the American financial house American Express, has arranged an open-air spectacle in which a kicked ball sets lights blazing across the front of the opera house while the chorus sings. I ask whether the Muses raise the people up, or are themselves bent down to their feet.
C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus
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