Latin
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I finally got a chance to check out Pedar Foss’ latest blog-related project … here’s an intro from his very self: This begins a series of posts that will translate and comment upon Pliny the Younger’s two letters (6.16 and 6.20) about the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79–the disaster that buried Pompeii, Herculaneum,…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Joseph Yarbrough for alerting us to this item in the Gyrene Gazette: “Salvus sīs!” says your classmate, walking into the room. You smile as you respond, “Salvē! Ut valēs?” “Bene. Et tū?” “Nōn male.” Soon, the room is sparkling with foreign chatter—before the professors have even arrived. Sermo Latinus Hodiernus…
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I’m still trying to track down the official Papal Bull which established the Latin Academy which the pope recently decreed, but until then, this Rome Reports video is actually really good: … I wonder what would happen if they asked the same question on the streets of some North American city (both knowledge-wise and ‘accent-wise’)
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As you might be aware, a couple days ago Darius Arya hosted another Latin Tweetup and although I wasn’t able to participate myself, I thought it might be fun to Storify the event: Storifying the Latin Tweetup/Pipiatio Latina … for the record, I did edit a bit, taking out some posts which were more technical…
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I first heard of this Free Rice site a year ago when some of my Grade Sevens were playing with it … essentially it’s an online quiz and for every question you get right, they’ll send the equivalent of ten grains of rice to a place/person in need. Well, now they have a Latin-based game…
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