POWERLATIN ENERGY DRINK
YOU’LL CONJUGATE AS FAST AS
CICERO
PEOPLE WILL WATCH YOU CONJUGATING AND THING YOU’RE
CICERO
YOU’LL CONJUGATE AS FAST AS
CICERO
WITH THE REAL
CICERO
AND YOU’LL FINISH AT THE SAME TIME AND
SPEAK BEFORE THE SENATE
in more saxi-astri celebra
party like a rock-star.
Working on Study Abroad application, for a three week summer program in Pompeii and Rome.
I’ve decided that I’ll be making my way around Italy with poor elementary Italian, though primarily with Latin. Maybe this will work in Vatican City.
“UBI LATRINAM EST?!”
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CIRCUMSPICE GLAUKOPIS
NULLAM DICERE POSSUM
TOTAM ECLIPSAM CORDIS
AETERNITAS ILLAM NOCTEM INCIPIT
This happens when you study Latin too much. You translate parts of ridiculous songs such as Total Eclipse of the Heart into Latin. Though “Glaukopis” is Greek, but it straight up means “bright eyes.”
AUDENTES DEUS IPSE IUVAT
“God Himself helps those who dare.” (Ovid)
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Latin for realz
For once, my Latin homework does not concern piratae, lupi, porci, filiae agricolae, nautae, etc.
Yesterday I took my “last Latin midterm on grammar evar,” the class having finished our McKeown textbook, in which pastoral vocabulary is abundant.
Today we started learning about dactylic (from the Greek “δάκτυλος,” meaning “finger,” in reference to the bone structure- one long phalanx and two short phalanges) hexameter and scansion, looking at Ovid’s Deucalion et Pyrrha.
My teacher’s mnemonic for the scansion of the last two feet of a verse is “strawberry jam pot.” (__ - - / __ x) (“long short short / long stop”)
I’m loving figura etymologica.
This is exciting!!
But now I have to go do my Greek homework, which is just daunting. I spent some time with my καλὸς διδάσκαλος this afternoon and (besides sharing him the “Latin is a spouse/Greek is a sexy pool boy” quote) told him that I shant be continuing Greek next semester, due to schedule restraints and the general poor relationship I have with that language. I shall go on and gain more proficiency in Latin.
There are 17 days of class left, then finals week. This is unsettling for several reasons— academic, and personal.
“The people called Romans they go the house?!?”
Latin is like a spouse, whereas Greek is like a sexy pool boy.
Latin exam tomorrow
“After si, nisi, num, and ne, all the ali-’s drop away!”
Mnemonic device concerning the omission of “ali-” from the indefinite pronoun/pronomial adjective “aliquis/aliqui” when following the “si, nisi, num, ne” in conditional sentences.
A map of the chief plains and craters of the Earth’s Moon.
“Sea of Serenity”
“Sea of Tranquility”
“Sea of Storms”
