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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · 17h

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 465
talpa esurit, sed difficile est ei vermiculum capere (The mole is hungry but it's hard for her to catch a worm). Silvius vermiculum prendit (Silvius grabs the worm). eheu! vermiculus sinuosus effugit! (Oh dear! The wriggly worm gets away!)

Photo of Silvius the little Latin mouse with a small plush mole. Silvius has caught a worm for her, but it's the wiggliest worm ever, and it is escaping over his shoulder before he can hand it over. Never mind, he can share his lunch with his new friend instead.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · 9d

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 464
Kalendis Octobris mures nuces iuglandes colligunt (On October 1st, the mice are gathering walnuts). Silvius plostellum implet, et Minimus putamina prasinea ā nucibus detrahit (Silvius fills his little cart, and Minimus takes the green husks from the nuts).

Photo of Silvius and Minimus, the Latin mice, collecting fallen walnuts to stock their larder. Silvius is hauling his little wooden cart, while Minimus is holding a walnut that still has some of its outer shell sticking to it

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · 13d

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 463
messium festa adsunt, igitur Silvius et Minimus prandent apud cognatos ecclesiasticos (It's the Harvest Festival, so Silvius and Minimus have lunch with their church relatives) Silvius malum sucosum eligit (Silvius chooses a juicy apple)

Photo of Silvius and Minimus, the Latin mice, investigating a Harvest Festival window display of fruit and nuts. The incumbent church mice have already had a nibble here and there!

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · 19d

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 462
mures silvam perambulant (The mice are walking through the wood). Silvius et Minimus fungum magnum inveniunt, qui sellam optimam musculo praebet (Silvius and Minimus find a big mushroom, which provides an excellent seat for a little mouse)!

Photo of Minimus and Silvius among fallen leaves and acorns on the floor of a small wood. Silvius is balancing on a mushroom (beech bolete Leccinum scabrum), while Minimus looks on.

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Projjwal @mprojjwal162.bsky.social · Sep 9

That’s such a charming start,love how you’ve woven Latin into the scene!

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · 22d

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 461
Minima et Silvia in culinā occupati sunt (Minima and Silvius are busy in the kitchen). Minima mel fervens miscet (Minima stirs boiling honey). Silvius apiculas fingit (Silvius shapes little bees). suavissimae sunt (They're delicious)!

Photo of Minima and Silvius, the Roman mice, making honey sweets in the kitchen. Both mice are wearing aprons. Minima is heating honey and vinegar on the stove, while Silvius tidies up the bee sweets after taking them out of the moulds. Romans didn't have sugar, but it's possible to make sweets from honey and something acidic to help it set hard.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Sep 8

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 460
hodie spatium studiorum Minimi incipit (Today Minimus' teaching term begins). Silvius pro ianuam cavi est , capsulam libellumque tenens (Silvius is in front of the mousehole door, holding his satchel and a little book).
#notbacktoschool

Photo of Silvius the little Latin mouse, outside the front door of the mousehole. He's holding a scroll and his little red satchel. Silvius doesn't go to school, but learns at home with his parents.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Sep 5

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 459
Minimus imaginem pictam in murum figit; Silvius eum adiuvat. (Minimus is fixing a painting to the wall; Silvius helps him ("macte, Tata! nos omnes graphice pinxisti! (Bravo, Daddy! You have painted us all realistically!)

Photo of Minimus and Silvius, the Latin mice, in the main bedroom of the mousehole. Silvius has a room of his own now (watch this space!) so Minimus and Minima are redecorating. Minimus is standing on a painted red chair, putting up a picture. Silvius is helping him. The picture is a family portrait in the style of a Pompeii fresco.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Aug 29

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 458
mures occupatissimi erant (The mice were very busy). Minimus novam mensam fecit, Minima clavos in murum fixit et Silvius vasa coquinatoria et lucanicam suspendit (Minimus made a new table, Minima put nails in the wall and Silvius hung up kitchenware and a sausage).

Photo of Minimus, Minima and Silvius, the Latin mice, in their newly redone kitchen. There's a big plate on the new wooden table with a whole cheese, and Minimus is holding a cheese knife. There are pegs above the stove with a chopping-board, a muffin pan, a sprig of rosemary and a salami style sausage.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Aug 23

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 457
hodie Silvius artifex est (Today Silvius is an artist). imaginem Tatae in schedam chartae delineat (He's drawing a picture of Daddy on a piece of paper). quam sollers musculus! (What a skilful little mouse!)

Photo of Silvius, the little Latin mouse, with a pencil and a drawing of Minimus on a small square of paper.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Aug 18

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 456
Silvius et nova amica Lara diem ventosum laetumque in litore degunt (Silvius and his new friend Lara spend a windy, happy day on the beach). algam, ostreas, vestigia ...et poma terrestria fricta inveniunt (They find seaweed, oysters, footprints...and chips)!

Photo collage of Silvius the little Latin mouse and his new friend Lara the seagull, on the beach at Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, which is not far from the Roman city of Colchester. They are pictured sheltering from the wind behind a seaweed-covered breakwater post, inspecting a huge barnacled oyster. following gull footprints on the sand and trying to steal chips.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Aug 15

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 455
Minimus et Spicus garriunt (Minimus and Spike chat). Silvius birotulam automatarium aurigat nec potest sistere! (Silvius is driving his moped and can’t stop!) Minimus Spicum servat et filiolum curat (Minimus saves Spike and looks after his little son).

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · Aug 2

Silvio! Conare frustum citri laro iacere!
(Silvius! Try throwing the seagull a lemon slice!)

Works better when you have a bunch of flying gulls hoping you'll toss them a french fry.
One grabs the lemon, starts to fly off, squawks, drops it, next gull grabs it, ...

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🏔fjellsopp🍄 @fjellsopp.bsky.social · Aug 7

Chicks dig classical languages.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Aug 12

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 454
mures donum inopinatum receperunt (The mice have received an unexpected gift). Silvius vasa fictilia factitia inspicit (Silvius inspects the artificial pottery vessels). imagines murum, felis et noctuarum ei placet (He likes the pictures of mice, a cat and owls).

Photo of Minimus, Minima and Silvius, the Latin mice, with a set of 3D printed 'earthenware pottery' made specially for them by the mother of two of my students. Silvius is standing in a large vessel and holding a smaller one. Both pots have black-figure images based on Greek vase paintings.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Aug 7

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 454
Silvius et Minimus frumentum gallinis dant (Silvius and Minimus give grain to the chickens). pullus flavus putat caudam Minimi vermiculum esse (The blond chick thinks Minimus' tail is a worm)! gallina glocit et pulli pipiunt (The hen clucks and the chicks cheep).

Minimus and Silvius, the Latin mice, are helping to feed a family of Polish chickens. The hen has a fine crest, and her three inquisitive chicks have little puffs of feathers on their heads. Silvius was a bit nervous of the chickens, because they sometimes eat mice, but these ones were friendly.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Aug 1

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 453
"tata! larus pomum terrestre frictum surripit!" ("Daddy! A seagull is stealing a chip)! Minimus prandium defendit, sed Silvius cupit larum in amicitiam recipere (Minimus defends lunch, but Silvius wants to befriend the seagull).

Photo of Minimus and Silvius, the Latin mice, on a Northumberland beach. Minimus is trying to retrieve a chip from a hungry seagull, but Silvius would rather make friends with it. The gull's name is Lara!

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · Jul 31

It was an absolute delight to see you all again

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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · Jul 28

Minimus, a glirarium, and @pottedhistory.bsky.social: what a wonderful combination!

Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Jul 28

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 451
Minimus filiolum tradit amico figulo (Minimus introduces his little son to his friend the potter). in figlinā, Silvius ollam perforatam invenit. (In the workshop, Silvius finds a pot with holes.) cave, Silvi! glirarium est (Look out, Silvius - it's a dormouse pot)!

Photos of Minimus and Silvius, the Latin mice, with their friend Graham Taylor in his Rothbury pottery. Minimus is trying to retrieve Silvius from inside a replica glirarium, a large pot used to keep dormice while they were being fattened for the table.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Jul 29

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 452
Silvius litus scopulosum explorat (Silvius is exploring a rocky beach). reticulum per aquam lacunae inter saxa verrit (He sweeps his net through the water of a rock pool). hodie algam et littorinas invenit (Today he finds seaweed and periwinkles).

Photo of Silvius, the little Latin mouse, standing on a flat rock on a Northumberland beach. He's fishing in a rockpool with a net, hoping for a tiny crab or shrimp.

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Luciande @luciande.bsky.social · Jul 27

Et gratulationes omnibus turmis in Campionatu Pediludii Europaeo Femineo 2025!!!⚽🏆

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Jul 28

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 451
Minimus filiolum tradit amico figulo (Minimus introduces his little son to his friend the potter). in figlinā, Silvius ollam perforatam invenit. (In the workshop, Silvius finds a pot with holes.) cave, Silvi! glirarium est (Look out, Silvius - it's a dormouse pot)!

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Jul 27

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 450
mures pedifolle in litore ludunt (The mice play football on the beach). Minimus follem caligā icit (Minimus kicks the ball with his boot). "macte, tata!" stridet Silvius (Bravo, Daddy!" squeaks Silvius). follem valide reiciet (He's going to kick the ball back hard)!

Photo of Minimus and Silvius, the Latin mice, playing with a stitched leather ball on a sandy Northumberland beach.

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Jul 26

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 449
Silvius in librario dilecto est, quondam statio ferriviaria) (Silvius is in his favourite bookshop, once a railway station). poculum aeneum antiquum inspicit, catenā ad pelvem vinctum (He's inspecting an old brass cup, chained to the basin).

Photo of Silvius, the little Latin mouse, in the old drinking fountain of Alnwick Station, which is now the famous Barter Books. Silvius would have liked a ride on the model trains that run around above the bookcases!

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Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social · Jul 25

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 448
Silvius situlam et palam perite tractat (Silvius wields his bucket and spade skilfully). castellum optimum harenae aedificat (He's building an excellent sandcastle).

Photo of Silvius, the little Latin mouse, with a miniature sandcastle.

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