Comments on: Great resources for self taught Latin.

Great resources for self taught Latin.

BeerGrin — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:53:45 -0800

are available for budding Latin scholars as well as Law and Med students who want a jump on all the professional lingo. Forum Romanorum provides very readable texts on Roman culture, life and history. Finally this better than average latin quotes page is available for the Mefites who just want to be able to spout Latin quotes (or who want to know what Latin quote gasbags are going on about)

By: gwint

gwint — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:11:21 -0800

Great stuff, BeerGrin. Wikipedia also has a sizable list of Latin phrases.

By: illovich

illovich — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:31:20 -0800

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas es.

By: BeerGrin

BeerGrin — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:34:49 -0800

Quidquid excusatio prandium pro.

By: gubo

gubo — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:37:30 -0800

Nota bene: Perseus Latin Lexicon

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:55:22 -0800

Online PDF reprint of out-of-print books is such an obvious and low-cost thing to do. I wish we had more ambitious sites of this kind in more fields. But I guess that's what Google is trying to do with its library scanning mission. I've noticed a similar Classics project that focuses on reference books like Smith's Dictionary. The text and translation collection at Forum Romanorum is excellent; definitely see also the texts at Perseus. There's plenty more out there. I might be able to supply a link if someone has a specific need or interest.

By: gramschmidt

gramschmidt — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:57:22 -0800

I have scoured these pages and I find absolutely no mention of "dorkus malorkus".

By: scratch

scratch — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:13:11 -0800

Great resource if you're planning to vacation in Latin America!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:16:10 -0800

Um, that "better than average latin quotes page" doesn't distinguish between actual quotes and dumb (if occasionally funny) cutesy-pie modernisms like "Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus! - Let's all wear mood rings!" Also, I want my quotes pages to give some indication of where the quotes are from; otherwise, what's the point? Aside from that, [lorem ipsum]... er, I mean [bonum est].

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:23:54 -0800

Great resource if you're planning to vacation in Latin America! - and your Vice President of the United States. "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." -- Dan Quayle

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:28:30 -0800

~~your~~ you're

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:35:44 -0800

Languagehat, the page does seem to cite when they are actual utterances by like cicero (I always wanted to pronounce that with the Latin hard C, Kickero, which made him a minor member of the furious five for me) and Ovid and so on? Do you mean like a full cite with the attributed book if there was one? I agree on the cutsey modernisms though, feh. From memory and somone correct me if I'm wrong, but one of my favorite bits of latin is: Discubuere et beborum in manourum Graecorum. Which is supposed to mean (to get) let's get naked and drink in the Greek fashion. Matella est mater, anyone know what I mean?

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:36:29 -0800

oh BeerGrin, thanks this is cool.

By: leapfrog

leapfrog — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:36:43 -0800

Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.

By: anagrama

anagrama — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:39:26 -0800

Matella est mater, anyone know what I mean? Caecilius est in atrium.

By: freebird

freebird — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:40:38 -0800

Awesome stuff - and timely: I was just trying to convince the girl last night that "the die is cast" does not actually come from metallurgy. Though frankly, I was so taken with that exegesis I felt a cad lecturing about Caesar. Boys are dumb, it's true.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:42:48 -0800

anagrama Latin class, awesome. Was it Grumio est servus? Poor old Pompei.

By: papakwanz

papakwanz — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:45:11 -0800

Quin te, fellator, te ipsum futtutem abbas?

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:48:04 -0800

Thanks, nice links. Perseus has always been my goto before this.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:48:27 -0800

Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit heh

By: kenko

kenko — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:34:24 -0800

Let's all wear rings which display the soul! I remember Grumio. What was the father's name, Caecilius?

By: theinsectsarewaiting

theinsectsarewaiting — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:50:32 -0800

*Turns on TV, considers news* Well, when in Rome...

By: ChrisTN

ChrisTN — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:59:42 -0800

My favorite high school Latin pseudo-quote: "Semper ubi sub ubi"--Always ~~where~~ wear ~~under where~~ underwear. ::checks quote list:: Oh, they've got it there, too. Man. That's really not to be trusted then, huh? Gotcha.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:03:28 -0800

filius in triclinio bibit.

By: ijoshua

ijoshua — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:35:23 -0800

podex non dextra sed sinestra

By: horsewithnoname

horsewithnoname — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:55:09 -0800

Mama say, mama sah, mama coo sah.

By: spock

spock — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:45:16 -0800

CART MASTER: [clang] Bring out your dead languages! CUSTOMER: Here's one. [clang] CART MASTER: Ninepence. LATIN: I'm not dead! CART MASTER: What? CUSTOMER: Nothing. Here's your ninepence. LATIN: I'm not dead! CART MASTER: 'Ere. He says he's not dead! CUSTOMER: Yes, he is. LATIN: I'm not! CART MASTER: He isn't? CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon. He's very ill. LATIN: I'm getting better!

By: Absit Invidia

Absit Invidia — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:13:28 -0800

*Skulks in, grabs an armload of primers, skulks out*

By: Acetylene

Acetylene — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:59:01 -0800

This is so timely. I recently learned that I'll be teaching Latin to middle school kids next year, and it's been several years since I actually studied it, and I need to spend the summer brushing up. Thanks, BeerGrin!

By: IndigoJones

IndigoJones — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:08:29 -0800

Geoffrey Willans put his recollections of British school boy Latin classes in his How to Be Topp , illustrations by Ronald Searle. His protagonist, Molesworth, describes a typical Latin play (predating Rowling, by the way) as follows: The Hogwarts by Marcus Plautus Molesworthus Sene One. The villa of Cotta at Rome. Enter CORTICUS a dreary old slave and RADIX his mate CORTICUS:(laying a skin of wine at the sideboard) Eheu! (The headmaster and all lat. masters who watch roar with larffter) RADIX: Eheu! (More larffter they are in stiches) CORTICUS: Eheu! RADIX Eheu (The curtain falls as the masters rolle helplessly in the aisles.) Sene Two A tavern off the Via apia. Enter MENSA a dirty old man followed by ANNUS his shieldbearer MENSA: Tot quot, clot ANNUS: Tu quoque, clotie (They trip over each others's togas. An ancient Briton enters in chains BRITON: Turn it up now, turn it up (The curtain falls with all masters in hysterics) Sene Three The Capitol. Cotta and his wife are at breakfast. COTTA: Quid est pabulum? WIFE: (Handing the cornflakes) Vis. COTTA: Eheu! IDIOTICUS their son enters singing to the lyre IDIOTICUS: To nouns that cannot be declined The neuter gender is assigned Bebop, bebop Examples fas and nefas give And the Verb-Noun Infinitive (This is too much for the masters who join rolicking in the chorus. The geese begin to quack and all the actors forget their lines. Curtain) Much more besides, and the illustrations are, well, they're Ronald Searle. Get the book. Better yet, get the collected works. (If that's too lowbrow, there's always YLE)