MORE LATIN! ha!

Wossup!!! haha... I am at FSU right now, on a missions trip actually from my church at USF... were just helping out another church up here- its been awesome so far!! Man, how I wish people are open to things- its a battle, let me tell ya!
Anyways- I get my quote of the day in my email, and guess whose quote I just got? None other than our good friend QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS!!! hahaha... Man, I read that and I was like, thats my man Quintus... hehehe... anyways it was just cool- I kinda guessed it was about woods and waves (accusatives right? hehe) but the rest I had to look up...
Just thought Id let you all know!
Peace!
Jeremy Y

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
  [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (XXX)~

nothing to do with Latin

I just saw "300" a little while ago and it was just as good as I thought it would be. It rocked! ... It rocked hard! Both grotesque and exquisite... I really enjoyed it and just had to come on here and say so. There's more at my own blog, but this is all I'll say here. Hope everyone else who likes this sort of movie enjoys it as much as I did. And I hope everyone who reads this is thoroughly enjoying their break from classes. ;D

~Rachael

TEST?

So we went over the test pretty quickly...
Can anyone tell me more about the test again?
Are Comparitives and participles going to be integrated in the test? And I am guessing we need to know the stuff from prior chapters too?
Wow.... thinking about it- no Latin for more than a week! man, I hope I dont forget all the stuff... I guess I will have to review, hehe...

Peace!
Jeremy Y

hm... interesting...

I was looking up info about Minerva on the net and I stumbled across this fun fact:

"Quinquatrus - 19 March
"This day was called Quinquatrus because it was the fifth day after the Ides of March. It came to be regarded as the start of a five-day festival and holiday (the greater Quinquatrus) in honor of Mars. Although, originally a festival to honor Mars, it changed to Minerva whose temple on the Aventine is said to have been dedicated on 19 March. The festival was especially celebrated by those who honored Minerva such as spinners, weavers, artisans, artists, poets painters, teachers and students. During the 5 days of the festival, there were no classes. It was at this time that teachers received their yearly stipend. On the first day, the Pontifex Maximus offer sacrifices in the temple of Minerva. On the last day, patrons offered dinners for the friends and clients. In between, games, plays and contest were held. Following this festival, students began new courses of study. " (KET)

I think it's particularly interesting that this was a holiday celebrated by teachers and students and that there were no classes held during the festival... Seems to me, it almost like a Roman "Teacher Appreciation Day" (or rather, several days). And incidentally, March 19th is the day that we all start back to classes after Spring break... I almost want to have a party for it! ;D

~ Rachael

I'm curious... How would one sign a letter or a message in Latin? In such a way that would be similar to "from your loving sister," for example, in English?

~ Rachael

Me again...Olivia (et alii discipulae discipulique cari amatique), if it's any consolation about the Latin comparatives, see the pic above to realize what we non-natives have to go through to get the English comparatives...what goes around comes around baby!

Semper Fidelis Vobis,

EM.

For the heck of it, I went on to Wikipedia and typed in "Latin" to see what came up (Wikipedia rocks for looking up the most random information). There is a substantial amount of information provided on the language. However, the coolest things I found were two of the links provided at the end of the page: Google Latin (click here) and Ephemeris (click here), a newspaper in Latin.

And has anyone (besides Dr. M, assuming) ever gone to a Catholic service in Latin? I'm not Catholic, but I would be interested in going to a service just for the experience. I can't imagine someone speaking Latin fluently (as humorous as that sounds). It would be cool though to whip out some Latin in an everyday conversation one day. I think I'll work on that.

Olivia H.

P.S. - In relation to class, I am not a fan of the comparative. Hopefully before the midterm I will be.