Res MilitarisDefense · CommentariusDispatch

De aëroportu Riadi percusso et montanis IemenensibusOn the Strike Against Riyadh Airport and the Yemeni Mountaineers

Missilibus e Iemenia coniectis tredecim homines Riadi perierunt; Caesar demonstrat immensas divitias et aëria arma nihil valere, si pedes in hostium terram ingredi recusat.Thirteen dead in Riyadh after missile strikes from Yemen; Caesar observes that vast wealth and aerial weapons achieve nothing if infantry refuse to set foot in enemy territory.

Res MilitarisDefense · AnnalesAnnals

Indutiae verbis decretae, igne peractaeA Ceasefire Decreed in Words, Enacted in Fire

Donaldus Trump indutias energiae inter Russiam et Ucrainam ex improviso edixit; at Moscovia tacet, Kiovia obscuratur, et socii inter simulationem et obsequium haerent.Donald Trump abruptly proclaims an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine; yet Moscow keeps silence, Kyiv is plunged into darkness, and allies hesitate between simulation and servility.

Res PublicaPolitics · OratioSpeech

In ambitum et aerarii direptionemAgainst Electoral Bribery and the Pillage of the Treasury

Iudice foederali interdicente ne praeconia Donaldo Trump faventia pecunia publica spargantur, aperitur quantus furor sit tributa civium in factionis largitionem convertere.With a federal judge halting taxpayer-funded advertisements favoring Donald Trump, the unbridled madness of turning public revenues into factional largesse stands exposed.

Trans OceanumAmerica · Oratio in SenatuA Speech in the Senate

Unum Consulem Habent, Collegam NullumThey Have One Consul — and No Colleague

M. Tullius Cicero rem publicam Americanorum ad instituta maiorum nostrorum exigit — et regem invenit quadriennalem.Marcus Tullius Cicero measures the American republic against the institutions of our ancestors — and finds a king with a four-year term.

PhilosophiaPhilosophy · Epistula CXXVLetter CXXV

De Servis Qui LoquunturOn Servants That Speak

Novae machinae respondent, scribunt, consulunt. Seneca Lucilium monet ne sapientiam emi posse putet.The new machines answer, write, and advise. Seneca warns Lucilius not to imagine that wisdom can be bought.

Res MilitarisDefense · CommentariusReport

Naves Eorum Volant, Pontes RuuntTheir Ships Fly. Their Bridges Fall.

M. Agrippa, qui aedilis Cloacam Maximam navicula perlustravit, classes Americanorum miratur — vias eorum nequaquam.Agrippa, who as aedile inspected the Great Sewer by boat, marvels at American fleets — and not at all at their roads.

ProvinciaeEurope · CommentariusDispatch

Galli Iterum Novis Rebus StudentThe Gauls Are Once Again Eager for Revolution

Caesar de Lutetiae turbis: consilia mobilia, principes mutabiles.Caesar on the turmoil in Paris: fickle counsels, interchangeable leaders.

ProvinciaeEurope · AnnalesAnnals

Germania, Speculum InversumGermania: The Mirror Turned Around

Quos olim Romanis exemplo proposui, nunc ipsi exemplo egent.The people I once held up as a reproach to Rome now stand in need of an example themselves.

NaturaScience · Historia NaturalisNatural History

In Viscera TerraeInto the Bowels of the Earth

C. Plinius Secundus de metallis rarioribus, quae nunc omnes gentes certatim quaerunt.Pliny the Elder on the rare metals every nation is now scrambling to dig up.

PecuniaMoney · CensuraCensure

Furem Dupli, Feneratorem QuadrupliThe Thief Paid Double; the Usurer, Fourfold

M. Porcius Cato de aere alieno civitatum.Cato the Censor on the debts of nations.

PhilosophiaPhilosophy · Ad Se IpsumTo Himself

De Rumoribus MatutinisOn the Morning’s Rumours

E Graeco imperatoris conversum.Translated from the Emperor’s Greek.

MoresSociety · SaturaSatire

Panem et Circenses, Nunc Domum AllataBread and Circuses — Now Delivered to Your Door

Populus qui olim imperia, fasces, legiones dabat, nunc duas tantum res anxius optat — et ne surgere quidem vult ut eas accipiat.The people who once handed out commands, fasces and legions now anxiously long for just two things — and won’t even get up to collect them.

LudiSport · EpistulaLetter

Favent PannoThey Cheer for a Rag

C. Plinius miratur tot milia virorum tam pueriliter pilam currentem spectare.Pliny the Younger marvels that so many thousands of grown men watch a ball being chased with such childish passion.

ArtesCulture · De ArchitecturaOn Architecture

Firmitas, Utilitas — Ubi Venustas?Strength, Utility — and Where Is Beauty?

Vitruvius turres vitreas Europae et Americae inspicit.Vitruvius inspects the glass towers of Europe and America.

PecuniaMoney · HistoriaHistory

Urbs VenalisA City for Sale

Sallustius, qui verba Iugurthae Romam relinquentis memoriae prodidit, eadem Washingtoniae audit.Sallust, who recorded Jugurtha’s words as he left Rome, hears them again in Washington.