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Blogger The Angry Lurker said...

Did latin myself and loved the history but I must admit your classics would have made things more enjoyable.

25 October 2010 at 12:37

Blogger Consul said...

Congratulations to him! Kings College is a great place and I wish I'd gone there. I also wish I'd done a history-based subject! But oh well, the world will need Environmental Consultants soon.

25 October 2010 at 13:15

Blogger Andrew said...

I'm impressed Latin still receives such attention in the UK. My high school offered the language, but it's becoming increasingly rare. I just finished listening to a radio program about language courses in the US—very little value placed on Latin here.

25 October 2010 at 21:10

Blogger subedai said...

Glad to see that you are putting your classical education to good use. Spot on with the reading material. Borrowed most of them from the library, luckily for me they were in English seeing as learning one language was enough for me!

25 October 2010 at 22:34

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Hi Andrew, Latin isn't all that common over here! It was taught more 30+ years ago; my wife still remembers her verbs and declensions very well (all too bloody well; much better than me, so far!).

Hi Consul, are you still in London?

25 October 2010 at 22:35

Blogger Gabriele Campbell said...

Lol, we had a Lucilius who '...est rusticus. In vico habitat.'

My grandfather was fluent in Latin and introduced me to the language and the Romans. Pity he died rather early, and I got stuck with a bad Latin teacher at school, else I might have enjoyed the language a lot more. These days I have to fight my way through the sources, preferably with a bilingual edition. I wish my Latin was better.

27 October 2010 at 17:45

Blogger BigRedBat said...

HI Gabriele, why not try the Cambridge Lartin Course? I do around an hour each day and I'm making good headway. I've been really enjoying translating the stories; they are ripping yarns!

27 October 2010 at 19:36

Blogger Consul said...

BRB - Sadly I'm back at uni in Leeds but I should be moving to London permanently when I finish my degree!

Consul.

28 October 2010 at 23:53

Blogger legatus hedlius said...

And my favourite line:

Caecilius, postquam Clementi anulum suum tradidit, statim expiravit.

We all cheered in class!

6 November 2010 at 18:33

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