I can't believe Latin IV is finished! 15 weeks. 6 ancient authors. Wow.
Caesar-surprisingly easy, absolute abl. fest
Cicero-in retrospect not so bad
Livy-whoa. most difficult by far
Catullus-I love him and easy
Ovid-I love him and even easier
Virgil-hmmm. craziest word order ever.
-Anne
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Anne,
This is the best summary of Latin IV ever!! I love it, and thank you for leaving your footprint here for future generations of intermediate Latinists! I am tremebling at the idea of 22 kids in the fall getting upset over the subjunctive, but I will gear myself for it over the summer!Thanks again to all for a marvellous semester; what a privilege and a joy to have worked with you guys, beginners, intermediate, and advanced. Much love to all,
EM
Dr. M,
Lol, I think we can all thank you for an amazing semester as well!! And good luck in the fall! I remember when we first did subjunctives, I was like, may? might? may have been? what is going on?! Active subjunctives:great. Passive subjunctives:not so great. Just wait until the passive indicatives! I shed many tears over those!
-Anne
I'm going to miss class this summer... and next year, if I don't decide to take more classes.
I'm continuing to work on all of the subjunctive and passive stuff... and the parsing, at which - as I'm sure you know, Prof. M - I'm horrible. I had a friend ask me to translate a long Catholic prayer into Latin for her last week because for some reason it's only published in English online and not anywhere in Latin - at least, no where she could find. It seemed to me a lot of it needed to be in the subjunctive, and there were a few clauses, so that was very interesting. Took me about three days to translate 34 lines in my spare time.
I hope I'm able to improve over the break and not forget things.
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