sententiae antiquae

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Curated Antiquity. Original translations of lines from Ancient Greece and Rome. Modernity juxtaposed. Go to the Blog for full citations and author information.

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    16. sij 2017.

    “Do well and live earnestly” Εὖ πράττειν καὶ Σπουδαίως ζῆν.

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    Whatever happened to wildly outmoded words like “smackeroos” for dollars? Surely, that represented the lofty pinnacle of our ridiculous monetary slang.

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    “Hey come on you guys, I’m trying to look at crap on a screen!”

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    “Why don’t angry people feel the cold?” Διὰ τί οἱ ὀργιζόμενοι οὐ ῥιγῶσιν;

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    Here's στέργω in a homoerotic context

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    Welcome to the 2017 National Latin Exam where a guy named Alexander tells an unnamed enslaved Egyptian that he is lazy and "not in Egypt any more." Latin teachers need to think hard before they subject their students to this abhorrent content.

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    “What good is it to conquer many in boxing or wrestling only to be overcome by our own anger?” Quid prodest multos vincere luctatione vel caestu, ab iracundia vinci?

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    It occurs to me that this specific dichotomy was prefigured in Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

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    Withholding aid from a foreign government unless they give you dirt on your political opponent.

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    Maybe one of the more useful things I’ve learned about teaching this year 🤷‍♀️

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    Eat your heart out, Crockett, this one still has eyes!

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    . Look what came in the mail...

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    Why is ignorance always either blissful or woeful? What happened to the Golden Mean!?

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    I’ve been quoting this all day in the classroom whenever I find myself at a loss for a citation or an example.

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    “My library happens to be my brain, and books are not available to me in my wretched poverty. So I do not know exactly where the poet said this.”

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    “Why does sitting make some people fat while it makes others thin?” Διὰ τί ἡ καθέδρα τοὺς μὲν παχύνει τῶν ἀνθρώπων, τοὺς δὲ ἰσχναίνει

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    The FL House is workshopping a ban on medical care for trans youth right now. A ban that would throw doctors in jail for 15 years for doing their jobs. Share our live thread here:

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    Olympiodoros in particular, arguing that it would be too easy to take the passage at face value: It must be that suicide is forbidden because our bodies are Dionysiac, as we sprang from the soot of the Titans whom Zeus struck with the thunderbolt after they slew and ate Dionysos.

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    This is why I'm on : Greek Cultural Enrichment for Greek 102 this Monday. Thanks , , and !

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    So if you want to know what I think about the NY Life Insurance commercial, I agree with below. Read the whole thread.

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    "The story which is told in the mystery narratives about these things—that we humans are in some kind of a cage and it is not right for us to free ourselves from it and run away—this story seems super important yet not easy to understand."

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