LATIN EXPRESSION

Adeste fideles
laeti triumphantes
venite venite in Bethlehem.
natum videte regem angelorum.
venite, adoremus Dominum.

John Francis Wade (teacher of Latin at Douay, c.1743)

As sung by Bing Crosby

http://www.last.fm/music/Bing+Crosby/_/Adeste+Fideles

LATIN EXPRESSION

IO SATURNALIA!

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

From NYTimes Potlatch Article, 16 December 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/science/16tierney.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=potlatch&st=cse

LATIN EXPRESSION

Auribus oculi fideliores sunt.

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

Sententia scribenda de figuram:

LATIN EXPRESSION

Nemo ante mortem beatus.

LATIN EXPRESSION

Silentium sermonis magister est.

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

SENTENTIAE SCRIBENDAE:

LATIN EXPRESSION

Modus operandi.

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

Sententiae scribendae:

LATIN EXPRESSION

Quem Iuppiter vult perdere dementat prius.

James Duport (1606-1679), Dean of Peterborough 1664 (Cathedral near Cambridge UK), in his book Homeri Gnomologia , a collection of maxims from that ancient Greek epic poet, Homer.

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

Open Topic Prompt: compose a slogan for the Latin Club t-shirt contest. You may discuss ideas as groups but should compose /solo/, on your own. Latin I may write in English or Latin; Latin II, Latin preferably; and Latin II, Latin only.

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Laeta venire Venus, tristis abire solet.

--John Owen (Iohannes Audoenus, 1564-1622)

Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi.

On today's convergence of Jupiter, Venus and the crescent moon, see:

http://www.physorg.com/news146849510.html

LATIN III PROSE COMPOSITION

Scribete omnes sententiam de illa figura:

c.f. (='confer' for refer to...) Agenda per Diem for extension as group project.

LATIN EXPRESSION [SQUIRREL THEME]

Cui [Erotioni] comparatus indecens erat pavus,
Inamabilis sciurus et frequens phoenix...

NB on the dative: The addressee is a deceased young girl named Erotion, to whom the other animals in these two lines are 'compared'.

Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) Epigrammata 243:12-13 (V.xxxvii)

LATIN EXPRESSION

Audacem reddit felis absentia murem.

LATIN EXPRESSION

Tempus est optimus iudex.

NOTITIA! NOTITIA! NOTITIA!

GOOGLE EARTH ANCIENT ROME 3D is now working at SBHS. Multas gratias vobis agemus to Latin 1, who hacked through the kudzu growing everywhere in sight and FOUND OUT HOW TO DO IT. We can now do it on Promethean.

As Yoda would say, "Latin One...young, they are...but...wise."

NOTITIA! NOTITIA! NOTITIA!

Hey...look below where the slideshow from last month's Homecoming Float/Applied Knowledge Construction is. I added more photos. There is one young lady I don't recognize because she's not in any of my classes. Help me caption her properly!

LATIN EXPRESSION

Fabula, sed vera.

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

LATIN EXPRESSION

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Title of a poem, WWI, by Wilfred Owen

Quoting Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Odes iii 2.13

LATIN EXPRESSION

Animum debes mutare, non caelum.

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION

Scribete sententiam, in lingua Latina, de ispam figuram.


[Use the assistance of the Grammaticus, quaeso, in order to find appropriate Latin verbs and nouns.]

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

bona fide :: et cetera :: i.e. 'id est' :: per :: via :: vis-a-vis

These phrases are from the 'scandal' lately in the British press surrounding the 'ban' of Latin phrases in some local councils. See the following news reports and blogs:

BBCNews 3 November 2008 'Councils ban use of Latin terms'

Daily Telegraph blogs 3 November 2008 and forward 'Local council cretins ban Latin as 'elitist', pro bono publico'

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Requiescat in pacem. [common inscription from...?]

Iam datus est finis vitae...iam pausa malorum. (CIL 6.20674v 1-2)

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Vita mortalibus cinis est, et fumus.

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Fortuna amicos parat, inopia amicos probat.

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Commune periculum amicitiam parit.

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Vitrea est fortuna.

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Veni, vidi, vici

Julius Caesar, quoted in Plutarch's Life of Caesar and Suetonius Lives of the Twelve Caesars, "Julius."

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium et ingens gloria Teucrorum...

Vergil Aeneid II:325-6

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

Vergil Aeneid II:49

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Via antiqua via est tuta.

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Historia magistra vitae.

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Si satis est, multum est.

nihil novum, nihil varium; satis est semel illos spectare. Pliny the Younger, Epistulae XI.6

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

pars inter pares

Fides, Spes, Caritas

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Latin II, Latin III and Latin I

beatos eos quibus datum est aut facere scribenda aut scribere legenda

(Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.16)

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

Latin II ::

ars longa vita brevis

de gustibus non est disputandum

sic transit gloria mundi

Latin III ::

stultus ut luna mutatur

hodie a multis honoratur et cras a nullo curatur

avarus animus nullo satiatur lucro

Latin I ::

ars artis gratia

e pluribus unum

semper paratus

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

LATIN II ::

ars longa vita brevis

de gustibus non est disputandum

sic transit gloria mundi

LATIN III ::

stultus ut luna mutatur

hodie a multis honoratur et cras a nullo curatur

avarus animus nullo satiatur lucro


LATIN I ::

ars artis gratia

e pluribus unum

semper paratus

LATIN EXPRESSIONS

LATIN 2 :: Fabula, sed vera.

Ita vita.

Roma aeterna

LATIN 3 :: Ut pictura poesis.

Bonus liber amicus optimus.

LATIN 1 :: Scientia potentia.

Fortuna caesa est.

Heri servus, hodie liber.