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'