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

[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?