Lessines I took an overnight trip to Ithaca, NY to get at some of the books there – NYC seems to be shut down for independent research. I was reading through as much as I could of Latinitas magazine, a Latin-only periodical published by the Vatican beginning in 1953 until Benedict XVI shut it down. Among […]
Monthly Archives: February 2021
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18-Feb-21The Classics, In Brief
10-Feb-21Hamhŭng “Some people here [at the American Academy in Rome] are snobbish about this mess but it belongs to anyone who can dig it.” – Ralph Ellison
[Scriptio haec aureo est laudis insigni honestata in Certamine Vaticano XIII] “Octo tantummodo praeterierunt dies – dumtaxat hebdomas una – longa ea quidem; attamen haec hebdomas orbis nostri praeclarissima fuit a condita rerum natura, quoniam per hos dies quae contigerunt mundum amplificaverunt in immensum.” Ita elate et ample locutus Foederatarum Civitatum Americae Septentrionalis Praeses, Richardus […]
[From Jan. 10, 1971. By Louis B. Fleming, who wrote a column called “From Cicero’s View.”] Latinist Chronicles Lunar Adventure By Louis B. Fleming ROME – All systems are “A-OK” and the navicula speculatoria is on the moon. If that’s Greek to you, it’s Latin to the Rev. Reginald Thomas Foster, and there’s nothing dead […]