The schools don’t teach Latin anymore. It’s really a shame, because now when these uneducated fools come into real life and find themselves in a legal business, or with a medical condition, they need to be amazed at the meanings of the terms. And if any one wishes by chance to return to the Defender […]
Tag Archives: Ovid
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Jan
Jan
Every once in awhile it happens that I will ask myself a certain obscure question, and that through the seemingly random events of the next day or two that question will be answered through no explicit effort on my own behalf. This is a record of some of those instances which prove, I believe, that […]
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Dec
Dec
The mystery of Ovid’s exile has fascinated scholars for centuries. Why would a famous poet of the first century exile Rome, if perhaps the worst place in the entire Roman Empire? Why was Thomas sent to the city of the Black Sea in the cold Roman country, surrounded by barbarians. nations little used to the […]
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Nov
Nov
I thought that the word “Halcyon’s day” meant “the day” or “the day before.” But here it is used in the wrong way. The phrase “halcyon days” means “calm and peaceful days.” This is a very ancient phrase. The origin of Ovid’s Metamorphoseon begins around the year 8 a.D. It was supposed to be written […]
A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that involves a particular verbal pattern, a repetition or other creative use of sound, or comparisons that amount to illuminating but technical falsehoods. Not much, seemingly, is done in the way of instruction in figures of speech at lower school levels any more, perhaps because of the […]
The Royal Gold climber was planted seven years ago. It is a Dennison Morey origination that was introduced by Jackson and Perkins in 1987. It is a cross of climbing Goldilocks X Lydia. Goldilocks is a dainty, deep yellow floribunda that was introduced in 1945. One of the plants in the Jackson & Perkins, fields […]
I am not learning the English language. I have friends who do, but I’ve always had an affinity with Latins. Thinking in another language, even a dead one, opens the mind to a whole mindset. Here are fifty famous Latin sentences, quotes, and phrases. I’m away! – I’m outta here! To the stars through rough […]
Much like his contemporaries, Ben Jonson utilized the iambic pentameter, though not in the traditional sonnet form. Within “To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare”, Jonson uses couplets to monumentalize the passing of one of the most prolific dramatists of the sixteenth century. While the poem is a testimony to the […]