May 2010
9 posts
Atalanta
You know you’ve been reading too much Ovid when you start addressing envelopes with “Atalanta” instead of “Atlanta”.
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ea quae ursi amant →
April 2010
11 posts
facebook
I have my default language on Facebook set to Latin. Their notation for “email” is “E-Pistula”. Genius.
gaudeamus hodie →
unions →
Spring
iam ver egelidos refert tepores
now spring brings back balmy warmth
Catullus 46.1
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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
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language log
via Languagelog
Maybe if they’d paid attention in Latin and remembered their roots -
ex-capio, capiere, cepi, captus
March 2010
13 posts
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http://godxiliary.com/alienvspooh/Medium/ →
no Latin for this - maybe mirabile visu?
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aibohphobia is a technical term for the irrational fear of palindromicity
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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