<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ad9bfb66-bb9f-4b82-96a0-22bec656b5c1/19B0BFE0-19BB-4DD3-993F-024E8307BD6C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://proverbs.bestlatin.net/audioproverb/2007/12/semper-saturnalia-agunt.html" href="http://proverbs.bestlatin.net/audioproverb/2007/12/semper-saturnalia-agunt.html" style="font-size: 11px;">proverbs.bestlatin.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://proverbs.bestlatin.net/audioproverb/2007/12/semper-saturnalia-agunt.html"><DIV>You will find the saying in <A href="http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Latin_Vulgar/Texts/Petronius-Satyricon_041-046.html">Petronius's Satyricon</A>. There's also a similar, more pessimistic saying from <A href="http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.apoc.shtml">Seneca</A>: <EM>non semper Saturnalia erunt</EM>, "It will not always be Saturnalia-time." In other words: party-time will come to an end, sooner or later. Some people, of course, are on a kind of permanent vacation; <EM>semper Saturnalia agunt</EM>, as in today's saying.</DIV><BR /><DIV> The Roman festival of Saturnalia is connected with Saturn, the Roman god of the harvest and of agriculture. We preserve his name today in the weekday "Saturday" (Latin <EM>dies Saturni</EM>), the only one of the days of the week to have kept its Roman name in English. Saturn supposedly ruled the world during the "Golden Age" of complete peace and perfect prosperity.</DIV><BR /><DIV> The festival of Saturnalia was originally celebrated on December 17, but it later extended into a week-long festival due to its enormous popularity with the Roman people. During the Saturnalia, many of the typical social rules were reversed</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/19B0BFE0-19BB-4DD3-993F-024E8307BD6C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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