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St. Nicholas of Myra is widely held to be the original Santa Claus
Nīcolāus dē Myrā ca. 270 A.D. to ca. 345 A.D.

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a.d. III Non. Dec.

Sine pennis volare haud facile est.
–Anonymous

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Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.
–Cicero

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a.d. VIII Kal. Dec.

Diligere parentes prima naturae lex.
–Valerius Maximus

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a.d. XII Kal. Dec.

Felix qui quod amat defendere fortiter audet.
–Medieval

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a.d. XIII Kal. Dec.

Amare simul et sapere ipsi Iovi non datur.
–Anonymous

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MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Hypothesēs nōn fingō.
“I make no guesses.” (Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)

Words of Isaac Newton, who in 1687 published Philosophiae nātūrālis prīncipia mathēmatica, a discussion of gravity and the laws of motion that is oft en referred to simply as the Prīncipia and is generally considered the most important scientific work ever written. The Latin phrase above comes from a supplement to the Prīncipia. Newton’s research brought the scientific work of Copernicus, Galileo, and the German astronomer Kepler to its crowning glory. With the exception of Galileo, who wrote in both Italian and Latin, all of these illustrious and influential physical scientists wrote primarily in Latin. Latin remained the official language of scientific communication for centuries.

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Id. Nov.

Nescit naturam mutare pecunia puram.
–Medieval

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a.d. III Id. Nov.

Amare et sapere vix deo condeditur.
–Publilius Syrus

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MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Nūlla terra exsilium est sed altera patria.
“No land is a place of exile, but merely another native land.” (Seneca, About Remedies for Unexpected Grievances)

This thought is expressed in the Dē remediīs fortuītōrum, which is sometimes attributed to the first century CE Stoic philosopher Seneca. It articulates the characteristically Stoic idea that wise people who achieve harmony with themselves and with nature are at home anywhere. The sailors who accompanied Columbus to the New World, however, were unlikely to have been motivated by Stoic philosophy.

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a.d. III Non. Nov.

Septem horas dormire satis iuvenique senique.
–Medieval

a.d. III Kal. Nov.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Nāvigāre necesse est; vīvere nōn est necesse.
It is necessary to sail, it is not necessary to live.

Th is is the Latin version of a phrase attributed to the first century BCE Roman general Pompey by the Greek author Plutarch, who lived in the late first and early second centuries CE. Though Plutarch wrote in Greek, Pompey presumably said these words in Latin to his soldiers, when exhorting them to complete a mission of supplying grain in very dangerous conditions.

a.d. IV Kal. Nov.

tranche n., pl. tranches [Fr. slice, installment.] Portion or installment. Portion of bond issue for distribution in another country. The World Bank has released an initial tranche of 250 million dollars out of a total of 452 million to be granted to Nigeria… (Sunday Tribune 1986).

This is a word you might have heard in the news over the last couple of years.

From Word Dictionary of Foreign Expressions.

a.d. VI Kal. Nov.

calvo turpius est nihil comato
Literal translation: nothing (is) uglier than a bald (man) with hair.

In an English sentence: “Calvo turpius est nihil comato,” muttered the salesman as he tried to interest a balding customer in a new hat.

This is not a phrase that you will see very often, but it is an easy one to understand: even today people make fun of a man with a comb-over!

From Elizabeth Heimbach's book Latin Everywhere, Everyday

a.d. X Kal. Nov.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Potius mendācium dīcam, quam mentiar.
“I would rather speak a lie, than lie.” (Thomas More, Utopia, Preface)

These words epitomize the message of More’s Utopia. He tells many stories that seem unbelievable but his message to the reader is truthful and important.

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a.d. XII Kal. Nov.

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a.d. XVII Kal. Nov.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Potius mendācium dīcam, quam mentiar.
“I would rather speak a lie, than lie.” (Thomas More, Utopia, Preface)

These words epitomize the message of More’s Utopia. He tells many stories that seem unbelievable but his message to the reader is truthful and important.

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Id. Oct.

Libertas optima rerum.
–Aesop's Fables

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pridie Id. Oct.

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a.d. VII Id. Oct.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Ūnī nāvī nōlī omnia committere!
“Do not entrust all things to one ship!” (Anonymous)

Th is proverb, apparently composed at some point during the Middle Ages, urges merchants and investors to be cautious. Its meaning is equivalent to that of our modern English “Do not put all of your eggs in one basket.” In this chapter’s reading passage, however, we read of an occasion when having one’s possessions in more than one ship proved a bad idea.

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a.d. VIII Id. Oct.

Cave tibi a cane muto et aqua silenti.
–Aesop's Fables

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Non. Oct.

malum in se n., pl. mala in se [L. malum offense, wrong, evil (1); in in, on (2); se itself (3): wrong in itself.] Law. A wrong in itself. An offense such as murder which is evil, viewed either from its own nature or by natural law. The old division of crimes into mala in se … and mala prohibita … epitomises a division of society’s attitudes towards “technical breaches of the law” and those of offences touching deep-rooted moral attitudes (Curzon 1979:40). Cf. malum prohibitum.

From Word Dictionary of Foreign Expressions.

Pridie Non. Oct.

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a.d. VI Non. Oct.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Dulce bellum inexpertīs.
“War is sweet for those who have not experienced it.” (Erasmus, Proverbs)

The celebrated humanist Erasmus, who was a committed pacifist, included this proverb in his collection, thereby indicating his own views of war.

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a.d. III Kal. Oct.

Numen lumen (University of Wisconsin)
Literal translation: God (is) light

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From Elizabeth Heimbach's book Latin Everywhere, Everyday

a.d. VII Kal. Oct.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Nōn enim tam praeclārum est scīre Latīnē quam turpe nescīre.
“It is not as praiseworthy to know Latin as it is shameful not to know it.” (Cicero, Brutus, 37.140)

In this dialogue about oratory, Cicero makes this famous remark, when characterizing the unaffected speech of an orator a generation older than himself, named Marcus Antonius. Cicero observes that although this man gave the impression of speaking in a casual manner, his Latin was pure and correct.

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a.d. IX Kal. Oct.

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a.d. X Kal. Oct.

Quod nimis miseri volunt, hoc facile credunt.
–Seneca

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a.d. XIV Kal. Oct.

America the Beautiful

Com caela ampla, lutei
Sint campi tui, cum
Sint montes tui splendidi,
Solum frugiferum,
America, America,
Defendat Deus te,
Det pacem titi ubivis,
Successum hac de re!

Taken from Latine Cantemus and available on Carmina Popularia.

a.d. XV Kal. Oct.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Nōlēns volēns.
Literally, “unwillingly or willingly,” the English “willy-nilly” tries to capture the
eff ect of the Latin.

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a.d. XVI Kal. Oct.

1. You are Odysseus, one of the premier warriors who fought at Troy. The Cyclops will prove a formidable opponent, but you will not shrink from a battle with him.

2. You are wily Odysseus, the inventor of the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The wit of the Cyclops is no match for yours; you can trick him into letting you leave.

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a.d. XVII Kal. Oct.

cum grano salis

Literal translation: with a grain of salt
More common meaning: with a little disbelief, not too seriously
In an English sentence: I took my friend’s boasting cum grano salis.

You treat something cum grano salis when it sounds a little too good to be true. Similarly, when you take something lightly instead of seriously, you are taking it cum grano salis.

From Elizabeth Heimbach's book Latin Everywhere, Everyday

a.d. III Id. Sep.

But Enkidu is resurrected quickly
to relieve his soul of fright
and sadly he asks Gilgamesh in tears:
"Oh brother, why would I dream that gods sat round to set my fate?"

From Danny Jackson's translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh.

a.d. IV Id. Sep.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Obsequium amīcōs, vēritās odium parit.
“Indulgence produces friends, the truth hatred.” (Terence, The Woman of Andros, 68)

The Roman playwright Terence expressed this bitter observation about human nature.

From Latin for the New Millennium

a.d. V Id. Sep.

Novus rex, nova lex.
–Aesop's Fables

From Laura Gibbs' book, Aesop's Fables in Latin.

Non. Sep.

Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In

Cum intrant caelum sancti,
Cum intrant caelum sancti,
Annumerari in his velim,
Cum intrant caelum sancti.

Cum lucent caeli stellae…

Cum lucet lunae lumen…

Taken from Latine Cantemus and available on Carmina Popularia.

pridie Non. Sep.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Eheu . . . fugācēs lābuntur annī!
“Alas . . . the fleeting years pass away.” (Horace, Odes 2.14.1)

From Latin for the New Millennium

a.d. III Non. Sep.

factotum n., pl. factotums [Med. L. from L. fac do, make (1); totum the whole, all (2): Do all or the whole.] 1. An all-purpose servant. A person employed to do every kind of work. A person entrusted with diverse responsibilities. The tenants tired of dealing with a factotum instead of with the landlord himself. 2. Printing. A very big decorative capital letter.

From Word Dictionary of Foreign Expressions.

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a.d. V Kal. Sep.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Rādīx omnium malōrum est cupiditās.
“The root of all evil is greed.” (I Timothy 6.10)

Paul made this famous statement in the first of his letters to Timothy. Th e text is quoted from the Latin translation of the scriptures, known as the Vulgate, which was mostly the work of Jerome, and completed in the fourth century CE.

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a.d. VII Kal. Sep.

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a.d. VIII Kal. Sep.

Cicada cicadae cara, formicae formica.
–Aesop's Fables

From Laura Gibbs' book, Aesop's Fables in Latin.

a.d. XII Kal. Sep.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Nec sine tē nec tēcum vīvere possum.
“I can live neither without you nor with you.” (Ovid, Love Affairs, 3.11b.7)

A witty description of the emotional difficulties that love brings. Ovid dramatizes the eternal and irreconcilable conflicts typical of human love affairs. It emphasizes that physical beauty makes the beloved desirable not only to the lover, but to others as well; the beloved’s appearance, therefore, may also be a cause of anxiety. What is more, even if the behavior of the beloved causes resentment in the lover, it may also lead to greater desire, to the point where the lover feels subjected to the beloved, in a form of painful but welcome servitude. The reading in this chapter deals with one of the most celebrated and tragic love stories of all time.

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a.d. XIII Kal. Sep.

Cockles and Mussels

Dublini puellae
Sunt eximie bellae.
Est harum bellissima
Molly Malone.
Carrum suum promevebat,
Clamorem edebat,
Clamitabat "Sunt bona
Conchylia mea!"
Clamitabat "Sunt bona",
Clamitabat "Sunt bona",
Clamitabat "Sunt bona
Conchylia mea!"

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Designed for students unfamiliar with the classical world, The Clay-footed SuperHeroes provides a very accessible introduction to the SuperHeroes of classical mythology including such luminaries as Jason, Theseus, Heracles, Odysseus, and Aeneas. Student and general reader alike will enjoy Williams’ wry sense of humor and her appreciation for the improbable. This book is an excellent text of manageable size and complexity for students beginning their study of literature, the humanities, or Latin and Greek. General readers will be pleased to acquire the foundation necessary to understand these stories which have so influenced art and literature through the ages.

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A longtime Latin instructor at the high school and university level, Rose Williams holds degrees from Baylor University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with post graduate work in Latin and the Humanities at the University of Dallas and the University of Texas in Arlington. On a Rockefeller Grant she did research at the Bodleian Library of Oxford University in England and at the University of Pisa. She is the author of numerous classics textbooks and teaching guides as well as humorous books of Latin phrases. She serves on various classics consultant boards and maintains a website, www.roserwilliams.com, devoted to Latin teaching materials.

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a.d. XV Kal. Sep.

Fenos imponit linguae conscientia.
–Publilius Syrus

a.d. XIX Kal. Sep.

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Id. Aug.

mens rea n. [L. mens mind, purpose, intention (2); rea guilty, answerable (1): guilty mind.] Law. Criminal intent/purpose. An act alone cannot make a person criminally responsible, unless it is accompanied by mens rea. See actus non facit etc.

From Word Dictionary of Foreign Expressions

pridie Id. Aug.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Sacrum Rōmānum imperium.
“Holy Roman Empire.”

The Holy Roman Empire continued the empire founded in 800 CE by Charlemagne, who revived the title of Roman Empire in Western Europe. Charlemagne’s successors, the Carolingians, considered the Roman Empire suspended, rather than ended, by the abdication in 476 CE by Romulus Augustus. As a phrase, “Holy Roman Empire” designated a political entity that originated with the coronation of the German king Otto I as emperor and survived until Francis II renounced the imperial title in 1806.

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a.d. III Id. Aug.

Ignavis semper feriae sunt.
–Aesop's Fables

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a.d. VII Id. Aug.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Nēmō mē impūne lacessit.
“Nobody provokes me with impunity.”

A Royal Scottish motto which is inscribed on Scottish pound coins. According to an ancient legend, an enemy soldier attacking Scottish territory stepped on a thistle and shouted in pain.

From Latin for the New Millennium

a.d. VIII Id. Aug.

Felicem diem mihi!

Non. Aug.

bel canto n. [It. bel beautiful, pretty (1); canto song (2): beautiful song.] Music. A form of traditional Italian vocal music, especially opera, which emphasizes a refined and beautiful tone and careful technique. The works of Rossini and Donizetti are perennial favorites of Italian bel canto.

From Word Dictionary of Foreign Expressions

pridie Non. Aug.

Cineri gloria sera venit.
–Martial

a.d. III Non. Aug.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Tempora mūtantur et nōs mūtāmur in illīs.
“Times are changing and we are changing in them.”

This well-known line of verse probably dates from some time in the Middle Ages, and concisely expresses the recognition that human life and human beings change and are changeable.

From Latin for the New Millennium

a.d. VI Kal. Aug.

Post longe exercita odio, mus et rana in bellum ruebant.
–Aesop's Fables

From Laura Gibbs' book, Aesop's Fables in Latin.

a.d. IX Kal. Aug.

miasma n., pl. miasmata or miasmas [Gk. stain, defilement, pollution.] 1. An exhalation of vapor emanating from marshy ground or rotten matter which, it used to be believed, causes diseases such as malaria. During yellow fever epidemic at Saint Louis, people were advised to go up on to the terraces at night to avoid the miasmata and breathe pure air (Suret-Canale 1971:404). 2. A thick vapor-like atmosphere or emanation. The room, apparently a den of disreputable characters, was pregnant with the miasma of marijuana smoke. 3. A pervasive, corrupting atmosphere or influence. It is a disturbing story and it tells us something of the miasma of power, the ease with which people in power can act barbarously in relation to individuals… (Ben Okri in West Africa 1982).

From Word Dictionary of Foreign Expressions

a.d. X Kal. Aug.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Cor ad cor loquitur.
“Heart to heart,” literally “A heart speaks to a heart.”

A Latin saying that originated in the autobiographical Confessions of the influential early Christian writer Augustine, and is echoed in our English expression “heart to heart talk.” This phrase was also the motto of Cardinal J. H. Newman in the nineteenth century.

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a.d. XI Kal. Aug.

Delphinus tam violento sequebatur impetu, ut arenis illideret.
–Aesop's Fables

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a.d. XII Kal. Aug.

zut alors! interj. [Fr. zut darn, damn (2); alors then, in that case, therefore (1): in that case, darn.] Darn!

From Word Dictionary of Foreign Expressions

a.d. XIII Kal. Aug.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Imperium sine fīne.
“Empire without end.” (Vergil, Aeneid, Book 1.279)

Jupiter promises Aeneas’ mother Venus that he will bestow this gift upon the future Roman race. The idea of Rome as unending in time as well as space survives in the description of Rome as “the eternal city.”

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a.d. XVII Kal. Aug.

persona non grata

Literal translation: unwelcome person
In an English sentence: The State Department declared the accused spy to be a persona non grata.

A country can designate a visitor as a persona non grata for any number of reasons including suspected terrorist activities or criminal charges lodged in the person’s own country. A person who has been declared a persona non grata must leave the country immediately.

From Elizabeth Heimbach's book Latin Everywhere, Everyday

Id. Iul.

Nil homini certum est.
–Ovid

pridie Id. Iul.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Quod nēmō nōvit paene nōn fit.
“What no one knows almost does not happen.” (Apuleius, Transformations 10.3)

This saying exemplifies the logic “Not known, not done” aimed at alleviating the remorse of the human conscience over bad deeds.

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a.d. VI Non. Iul.

Mos iamiam novellus est, ut omnes ferae detruncent caudas.
–Aesop's Fables

From Laura Gibbs' book, Aesop's Fables in Latin.

Kal. Iul.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Sine īrā et studiō.
“Without anger and partisanship.” (Tacitus, Annals 1.1)

This is the promise made by the Roman historian Tacitus in the beginning of his Annals. The phrase has become proverbial for claims of impartiality in historical writing.

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a.d. III Kal. Iul.

census n., pl. censuses [L. a registering of citizens and property.] 1. Ancient Rome. Counting of the male citizens and evaluation of property conducted regularly every fifth year. 2. Official counting of the population of a country, state, nation, city, district, or any political unit, usually accompanied by compilation of vital statistics of socio-economic significance. See lustrum.

a.d. VI Kal. Iul.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Quid sī nunc caelum ruat?
“What if the sky should fall now?” (Terence, The Self-Tormentor, 719)

A proverbial saying for anything regarded as improbable and beyond our power.

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a.d. VII Kal. Iul.

nonpareil adj. [Fr. non not (1); pareil equal, like (2): not alike.] Without an equal. Unique. —n. Someone or something without an equal.

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a.d. VIII Kal. Iul.

ars gratia artis
Literal translation: art for the sake of art
In an English sentence: The starving artist often murmured, “ars gratia artis.”

Ars gratia artis is the motto of MGM studios. You can see the phrase on a banner under the MGM lion on the company logo. It means creating something beautiful for its own sake, not for the sake of profit.

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a.d. IX Kal. Iul.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Dūcunt volentem fāta, nōlentem trahunt.
“Destiny guides the the individual who is willing, drags the unwilling.” (Seneca, Moral Letters 107.11)

Originally written by the Greek philosopher Cleanthes, and translated into Latin by Seneca, this motto encapsulates the willingness of the Stoics to comply with destiny.

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A Terence Reader

A Terence Reader
Selections from Six Plays

by William S. Anderson


Terence’s plays are not merely showcases for his superb Republican Latin style. They represent an obvious post-Plautine shift in the comedy Rome inherited from Greece. There is a new respect for the real human situations behind well-rehearsed comic plots, and questions prod the cultural norms that are depicted on stage.

Latin selections in this edition include sizeable passages from the beginnings, middles, and ends of all six of Terence’s plays, giving the experience of the general structure of his comedy. Notes illuminate Terence’s ingenuity in complicating plots, shifting sympathies, and manipulating character types. This Reader offers a memorable sample of Terence’s comic art, a unique presence in Latin literature.

Features of this edition:

• Introduction that discusses Terence’s enrichment of the comic genre and the hallmarks of his Latin
• 566 lines of Latin text from Terence’s Andria, 28–139; Heauton, 175–256; Phormio, 1–12, 884–989; Hecyra, 198–280; Eunuchus, 539–614; Adelphoe, 1–25, 787–881
• Notes at the back
• Bibliography
• Appendix on Comic Meters in Terence
• Complete Vocabulary

William S. Anderson is emeritus Professor of Latin, University of California at Berkeley. He holds an AB and MA from Cambridge University and BA and PhD from Yale, where he taught for five years before joining the faculty at Berkeley. He has published widely on Horace, Vergil, Ovid, Roman comedy, and Roman satire. His book publications include The Art of the Aeneid (1969; 2nd edition 2005), Essays on Roman Satire (1982), Barbarian Play: Plautus’ Roman Comedy (1993), Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1–5 and 6–10, Text and Commentary (1972; 2nd edition 1997), Why Horace? (1998), and Approaches to Teaching Vergil’s Aeneid (with L. N. Quartarone, 2002).

128pp. (2009) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-678-3

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Wrath of Achilles

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by Ed DeHoratius
illustrated by Drian Delandro Hardison



You are Achilles, the greatest hero of ancient Greece. You fight with honor and pride. But on the battlefields of Troy you have a decision to make: stay true to your honor code and not fight, or stand beside your countrymen and win even more fame and glory.

In The Wrath of Achilles, you face the same choices as Achilles in Homer’s Iliad, but you are in control of your destiny. Only one path leads to glory. Twelve others lead to death, defeat, or shame.

Readers ages eight and up will experience Achilles’ choices firsthand in Ed DeHoratius’ dramatic text, dynamically illustrated by award-winning comic book artist Brian Delandro Hardison.

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Ed DeHoratius teaches Latin and classics in the Boston area. He spends his free time with his wife and three sons, cooking, coaching soccer, and honing his woodworking skills. He holds an AB from Duke University in Classical Languages and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and an MEd and MA in Latin from Boston College, and has published two books, along with articles and book reviews.

x + 62pp. (2009) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-708-7

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Latin for the New Millennium, Level 2

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a.d. XVI Kal. Iul.

Racemum dependentem frustra conata est vulpecula iteratis saltibus attingere.
–Aesop's Fables

From Laura Gibbs' book, Aesop's Fables in Latin.

a.d. IV Id. Iun.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Omnia vincit amor.
“Love conquers all things.” (Vergil, Eclogue 10.69)

This sentence became proverbial for the power of love.

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a.d. V Id. Iun.

duma n., pl. dumas [Russ.] 1. An official council or public assembly in czarist Russia before 1905. 2. The lower house of the post-communist Russian parliament. —Duma The national parliament of Russia from 1905 to 1917.

From Word Dictionary of Foreign Expressions

a.d. VI Id. Iun.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Carpe diem!
“Seize the day!” (Horace, Odes, 1.11.8.)

This phrase has become the byword for those who want to savor and treasure every moment in life, which is what Horace recommends in this poem, after stressing the uncertainty of the future.

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a.d. III Non. Iun.

Gratia gratiam parit.
–Aesop's Fables

From Laura Gibbs' book, Aesop's Fables in Latin.

Kal. Iun.

Rubicon n., pl. Rubicons [L. Rubico, a stream south of Ravenna, Italy.] 1. Roman History. The stream which, in the Republican era of ancient Roman history, served as a boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul. Since a Roman general or governor was forbidden to lead his troops in arms across a Roman boundary into Italy, Julius Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon in 49 B.C. meant that he was irrevocably committed to war against Pompey and the senatorial party. 2. A boundary, line or limit whose crossing indicates irrevocable commitment to a decision or a complete break with the past or that the “die is cast.” a) The Prime Minister after considerable deliberation and hesitation, crossed the Rubicon by tendering his letter of resignation. b) But in less than 25 years he has crossed an American Rubicon from poor immigrant quarters to the comfortable suites of upper U.S. management as a group vice president… (Newsweek Int. May 4, 1981:37). See alea jacta est and jacta alea est.

From Word Dictionary of Foreign Expressions

a.d. IV Kal. Iun.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Fortēs fortūna adiuvat.
“Fortune helps the brave.” (Terence, Phormio, 203)

This famous phrase, which features a pun on two similarly sounding words, comes from the Roman playwright Terence.

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ET MĪRĀBILE DICTŪ

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a.d. V Kal. Iun.

Si periculum in cursu feceris, quis sit velocior liquido cognosces.
–Aesop's Fables

From Laura Gibbs' book, Aesop's Fables in Latin.

a.d. VI Kal. Iun.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Tantae mōlis erat Rōmānam condere gentem!
“It was so much toil to found the Roman race!” (Vergil, Aeneid, Book 1.33)

So exclaims the poet Vergil in the Aeneid. Throughout the epic, he justifies this assertion by describing the troubles the poem’s hero Aeneas meets. Many Romans in Vergil’s time saw the stable government established by Augustus, the first Roman emperor, as the ultimate political achievement—in contrast to the preceding civil wars. Yet Vergil never shrinks from making his readers feel the personal and political sufferings experienced by the Trojan exiles who were believed to have been the ancestors of the historical Romans.

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