May 2010
9 posts
Atalanta
You know you’ve been reading too much Ovid when you start addressing envelopes with “Atalanta” instead of “Atlanta”.
May 21st
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May 19th
4 notes
May 15th
4 tags
May 15th
3 tags
May 14th
5 tags
May 14th
2 tags
May 14th
3 tags
May 14th
ea quae ursi amant →
May 6th
April 2010
11 posts
facebook
I have my default language on Facebook set to Latin. Their notation for “email” is “E-Pistula”. Genius.
Apr 26th
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Apr 24th
4 notes
Apr 24th
Apr 24th
gaudeamus hodie →
Apr 14th
unions →
Apr 14th
Apr 11th
Spring
iam ver egelidos refert tepores now spring brings back balmy warmth           Catullus 46.1
Apr 7th
6 tags
Apr 2nd
2 notes
3 tags
doctus poeta
Serge Gainsbourg Pieridas, pueri, doctos et amate poetas,      Aurea nec superent munera Pieridas. Boys, love the Muses and the learned poets,       let no golden gifts outweigh the Muses.                          Tibullus 1.61-62
Apr 2nd
3 notes
Apr 2nd
3 tags
language log
via Languagelog Maybe if they’d paid attention in Latin and remembered their roots - ex-capio, capiere, cepi, captus
Apr 1st
March 2010
13 posts
5 tags
Mar 31st
5 tags
Mar 31st
37 notes
Mar 31st
http://godxiliary.com/alienvspooh/Medium/ →
no Latin for this - maybe mirabile visu?
Mar 31st
Mar 31st
281 notes
4 tags
Mar 31st
3 notes
Mar 31st
5 notes
5 tags
Mar 30th
5 tags
Mar 30th
1 tag
Mar 28th
1 tag
aibohphobia is a technical term for the irrational fear of palindromicity
Mar 28th
3 tags
in nova fert...
In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; di coeptis nam vos mutastis et illas adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen!                               Metamorphoses I.1-4
Mar 28th