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The mission of the Mellarium is provide resources for both teachers and students of Greek and Latin. We are dual: Ambulator and Rogerius, and we are teachers.
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AMBULATOR
I began studying Latin in high-school on a smokey, stale, and flexible copy of Wheelock, the most stirring part of which — I think and maybe hope this adolescent impression is not unique — were the prefatory quotations from Byron and Frost — Churchill’s I impiously left rather than took, as too pompous. The whole of “the Death of a Hired Man” I love, and to study Latin like the violin because one liked it was clearly admirable; but Byron’s made Latin, as it were, titillating. Two humorous and antipodal tutors later introduced me to the lyrical Aeneid. The murmuring voice of an antiquated professor, wry and light like a husk, in a shadowy afternoon-lit office of a dilapidated university building once and for all decided for me that the Greek and the Latin must be loved. I have endeavored to improve my Latin and Greek ever since.
ROGERIUS
My parents were quite insistent that I learn Latin, much to my adolescent chagrin. They had purchased an online course whose first several lessons had us memorizing the Vulgate’s Gospel of John. Though the dry rote nature of the exercises was offputting for a young student who was already skeptical of Latin’s utility, I can to this day still recite the opening of the Gospel, so I suppose it was not all for naught.
My perspective shifted drastically after I had convinced my mother to switch my language to the much more practical Spanish. She was already in the process of getting my courses changed when I picked up the Henle Latin book that she had purchased for our us. Something about those opening pages immediately grabbed my attention, and I began assiduously working my way through the book’s numerous exercises. This was my first real academic endeavor that I had made of my own volition, and my appetite to learn has only grown stronger.
I attended Wyoming Catholic College after hearing about their unique Latin immersion program and graduated in 2018. Since then, I have taught English abroad in Spain and Latin for the last four years at a charter school. My wife and I are now preparing to spend a year abroad in Europe.
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