Category: For Students

For Teachers

20 Animal Sounds in Latin

Below you will find all of the animal sounds that I have collected reading through Erasmus’ Adagia, Colloquia, Epistles, and other works. Some of them are proper verbs associated . . .

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Latin

Three Aesopish Fables

The following three fables were taken from various places in Erasmus’ Adagia. They are fun reads and a good project for upper intermediate students to translate.

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For Students

Cicero ad Atticum 1,2 – A Brief Commentary

It is not particularly difficult, but brings a couple words to the fore: fore, summa, and “opus est”. Though rather simpler, the end of the first paragraph as well as a bit in the second might give trouble.

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Latin

Expositio In Pater Noster

Ambulator has had something in the works that he will be presenting shortly. Until that time, take a moment to enjoy St. Francis’ Expositio in Pater Noster.

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For Students

Paraphrasis in John

Since the Holy Week does not seem like an appropriate time to offer any personal reflections, I figured I would share a passage from Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Paraphrases. The all but extinct genre. . .

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For Students

Speaking Latin

Speaking Latin In one sense, the idea is as crazy as it sounds. The Latin tongue can no longer lay claim to a nation of

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