For Latin students

[vilakins]

For those of you who study or have studied Latin, Caecilius, Metella, and Quintus from the Cambridge Latin course are going to be in Doctor Who this coming season. Here's the post where I saw the news.

Comments

[gair.livejournal.com]

SQUEE! But if only it was Sextus, Marcus, Flavia and whatsername from Ecce Romani...

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

Claudia et Flavia puellae Romanae sunt.

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

Or something similar. God, I used to remember this stuff.

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

And it was Cornelia, not Claudia. I'm obsessed with Strictly Come Dancing Take 2.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Argus canis est. Argus cenam rapit! Cornelia irata est.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Claudia felis est!

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Good lord I did those for Latin too! Is it bad or sad of me to remember them so well?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's geeky and this is a Good Thing.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Erat Quintus!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Cum gladio!

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

Erm, I just saw an episode of Roseanne, in which she announced to the school at large that those students who were taking Latin were wasting their lives.

Just thought you'd like to know :-D.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You can get the news in Latin on Finnish radio, and they have web news too. :-) It's enormously helpful for English and romance languages, and besides, I enjoyed it.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Aww, I wish it was the Oxford Latin course, with Scintilla and Horatia and Flaccus. And Horace, of course. What a little wanker he was.

[ETA - but, I should have said, YAY FOR LATIN COURSE CHARACTERS ON DR WHO! It's just that nobody ever does the Oxford Latin course and I feel like I missed out.]

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

We had no new-fangled whizzy books with stories. We had Kennedy, Hillard and similar folks. They were approx 2,000 years old when we got them, and made no attempt to engage the reader.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, my father's books (he was a classics scholar). Caesar throwing bridges over rivers and barbarians lurking in fossae?

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

Yup, they're the ones. And, my all-time favourite "I do not give a straw for wisdom."

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

He didn't have a fig?

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

The Romans didn't give figs, they were rude back then. Figs, that is.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Especially in pairs?

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

barbarians lurking in fossae

'Fosse' sounds so much classier than 'ditch', doesn't it?