In 1957, when Reginald Foster was sixteen years of age and a student at the Carmelite Seminary in Peterborough, New Hampshire, he was an avid reader of Latinitas, the tantum-Latine magazine produced in the halls of the Vatican. He had learned of the existence of this magazine from his Latin teacher, Conrad Fliess, who had […]
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Carolus Egger on Peterborough
18-Mar-21Ads – in Latin!
18-Feb-21I 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 […]
[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 […]
The Latin That Got Left On the Moon
30-Jan-21In a gesture of international goodwill, the Apollo XI mission requested messages from every country, which would be placed in a capsule and left on the moon. Paul VI had the Vatican message written in Latin. It read: Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra! quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua super […]
Eleven years ago, I attended my first Rusticatio, a week-long Latin immersion experience run by an organization called SALVI that takes place in Bushrod Washington’s (grand-nephew of the pater patriae) old mansion in West Virginia. I thought it made a fascinating story: there was a subculture of Latin speakers in West Virginia? For real? I […]
Latest Piece
01-Feb-18The “Global Latinists” piece I wrote is, like the piece about Reginaldus before it, something I’m proud of and which I hope will find readers. I believe it’s currently behind the paywall, but I know the New Criterion also puts some articles outside its paywall, and I hope this one will get there.
Latin and Race.
25-Jul-15The immersion program is begun, and it is worth noting that there are no black participants. For a Classicist this is nothing unusual – indeed, for anyone involved in the high levels of almost any academic discipline, this is not unusual. In the United States, where blacks comprise about ten percent of the population, it […]
Latin Beyond Classicism.
23-Jul-15June 29th. We began the Latin immersion today. We read an account of Tungubutum (Timbuktu) written in Latin in 1595 by Adriaan Van Roomen. Tungubutum; situm ad magnum lacum piscibus abundantem, aqua tamen lacus est amara et venenata. Civitas magnae negotiationis, ad quam non tantum fit concursus Fessanorum et Maroccorum, sed etiam Cariensium. Huc magna […]
The Latinosphere.
23-Jun-15June 20th. A detail I forgot, from the Latinosphere, the small world we Latinists live in: the day after our arrival, before going to Pilanesberg, I met the Classicists in Potchefstroom. We had lunch together, and in the afternoon we all attended a lecture via Skype, from San Antonio, Texas. The lecture was given by […]