Month: November 2023

Meet Quintus: Oxford Latin Course Review

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Oxford Latin Course

Meet Quintus Meet Quintus – Quintus Horatius Flaccus, that is.  We generally call him Horace, one of the greatest poets of antiquity.  He’s best known today among non-Latinists for his phrase carpe diem (Horace, Odes 1.11). And meet Quintus we do, on the very first page of Maurice Balme’s and James Morewood’s Oxford Latin Course. The student’s … Read more

Gettysburg, Bishops, Androids, and Latin?

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Gettysburg, Bishops, Androids, and Latin - Fr. Corby

The Connection  Gettysburg, Bishops, and Androids. What, you may wonder, is the connection?  And what do they have to do with Latin? Well, as we’ll see, Latin is the connection. Allow me to explain. Gettysburg, Bishops, Androids, and Latin? What’s the connection? Well, let me tell you . . . Let’s start with Gettysburg. I’m not … Read more