Salvete! A bit of shameless self-promotion by academic precariat, hope it's fine with you guys. We invite you to our Slow Horace Mondays. Supposedly, at some point in the late 40ies or, more likely, early 30ies of the first century BCE a party of travellers, consisting of some of the most prominent poets of the time - Horace himself and Virgil ( Read more... )

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I'm trying to translate "The Dude Abides" to latin. The best I can come up with is "vir commorror" but I'm not sure of the proper case to use.

I've decided to start learning Classical Greek, but in planning out my studying, I'm running into an issue. For my other languages, a lot of my practice has come from watching movies and listening to music in the target languages (auditory learner here). Obviously I'm going to be mostly reading it rather than speaking it, but has anyone found a ( Read more... )

Repulsio and revulsio. Is there any connection between the words?

If "sine metu" means "without fear", how would you say "with fear"?

Thanks in advance! :)

I'd like to ask about the adverb 'cautiously' in Latin ( Read more... )

I have some Latin sentences here I'd like people to check over. I haven't done this kind of thing in about 8 years, so I feel pretty rusty and that I'm probably overlooking something important or making silly basic mistakes. Yes, I know the actual content of the sentences is pretty odd ( Read more... )

Could anyone help me translate the verb "to travel" into Latin? Every dictionary I tried that allows some_language-->Latin searches gave me no answer. I tried with 'transeo', 'propero', 'eo' but it's not it, and 'peregrinor' is a deponent verb, and I'm a beginner so it should be something easier, ending with -o in the first person. [It's my ( Read more... )

I need to come up with a word for a bit of creative writing. If thaumaturgy is magic - or rather the working of magic/miracles - would something that eats magic be a thaumaphage,  a thaumataphage, or a thaumatuphage.