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Backward, rain-drenched den of politeness
Nov. 15th, 2010 09:49 pm^I've been wanting to be able to use that as a title since I watched the new Psych episode on Thursday. ^_^ I also watched the new Misfits episode on Saturday. I also watched some more Arthur over the weekend. ^_^ slowly going through that series, teehee. (teehee because of the content of series and with whom I've been watching most of it and the things we say) I've gotten behind on Freetaa, Ie wo Kau, but I should really cut down a little on tv watching until Friday since I have a paper draft due Thursday.
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lololol, Rome
Mar. 9th, 2010 09:31 pmSo today I learned that Asch/Ginji (Tales of the Abyss) exists out there as a pairing. Somehow I had never thought of that before. (Probably 'cause I'm not a huge Asch fan... ^^;)
Anyway, to the main focus of this post: I was doing my Latin homework, and I happened upon some amusing information in the commentary.
"When selling themselves to a gladiatorial school, gladiators swore an oath to endure burning, bondage, flogging, death by sword, or anything else imposed upon them by their trainer." - From the Bryn Mawr Latin Commentaries for Seneca's Apocolocyntosis by Paul Roth.
I should really expect this from Rome by now...
Speaking of Latin class, on Monday, the professor was telling both another 1st year and me to declare a classics major, even if we aren't really sure we wanna major in classics to help out the department head for some or another thing. I'm kinda worried about the classics department at our school... But yeah, I wanna major in Japanese, and don't think I'll have time to double major, but a minor, maybe...?
Anyway, to the main focus of this post: I was doing my Latin homework, and I happened upon some amusing information in the commentary.
"When selling themselves to a gladiatorial school, gladiators swore an oath to endure burning, bondage, flogging, death by sword, or anything else imposed upon them by their trainer." - From the Bryn Mawr Latin Commentaries for Seneca's Apocolocyntosis by Paul Roth.
I should really expect this from Rome by now...
Speaking of Latin class, on Monday, the professor was telling both another 1st year and me to declare a classics major, even if we aren't really sure we wanna major in classics to help out the department head for some or another thing. I'm kinda worried about the classics department at our school... But yeah, I wanna major in Japanese, and don't think I'll have time to double major, but a minor, maybe...?
Dictionaries are Fun <3
Feb. 11th, 2010 01:19 pmThe other day, I was doing my Latin homework and found something with interesting... implications? subtext? in my Latin dictionary. (Yes, dictionaries have subtext... IDK)
From The Bantam New College Latin and English Dictionary Third Edition by John C. Traupman, PH.D:
contubernium -(i)i n sharing the same tent; wartime friendship; army tent; serving as a junior staff officer; concubinage; marriage (among slaves); hovel (of a slave couple)
Surely I'm not the only one who would think of Roman soldiers having a little bit of fun in their tents, developing "wartime friendships." Sigh~ I... I think of weird things sometimes... And even if they did do that, it probably wasn't romantic at all, but I want to make it out to be.
I am turning into a very strange fan of history. ^^
From The Bantam New College Latin and English Dictionary Third Edition by John C. Traupman, PH.D:
contubernium -(i)i n sharing the same tent; wartime friendship; army tent; serving as a junior staff officer; concubinage; marriage (among slaves); hovel (of a slave couple)
Surely I'm not the only one who would think of Roman soldiers having a little bit of fun in their tents, developing "wartime friendships." Sigh~ I... I think of weird things sometimes... And even if they did do that, it probably wasn't romantic at all, but I want to make it out to be.
I am turning into a very strange fan of history. ^^
National Junior Classical League
Aug. 3rd, 2009 12:13 amI just finished spending over a week in California yesterday. I was there for the NJCL Convention at UC Davis, but I also did some sightseeing with other students from my school district and some Indiana delegates in San Francisco before the convention. The best part of sightseeing had to have been going to Alcatraz. We had fun on the ferry ride there, and that island is so pretty and has a fantastic view of the city.
The convention itself was also a lot of fun. I got to hang out with people from my school district and also from Ohio as a whole plenty, and got to hang out with the Indiana people, too. In ways, I didn't do as much as last year, but as a whole, I felt like I did a lot more. Next year's convention is in Fargo, North Dakota, and I think it'll be really fun to go, since the delegation's invitation was so cute and made North Dakota seem like a really fun place to visit AND I heard from adults that the last convention held in Fargo was one of the best conventions most of them had been to. Quite a lot happened, but I don't feel entirely up to typing it up, and I'm not sure anyone really wants to read about it, so I'll end with that.
Yesterday I looked at the website for the remake of Persona for the PSP, and now I want a PSP badly. Tomorrow, I'll probably look around in local game stores for used PSPs and might even buy one if I find a nice price. So I'll have a PSP but not any PSP games! Lol, I'll probably try to get Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology while I have a PSP anyway, and look up other PSP games online or something.
The convention itself was also a lot of fun. I got to hang out with people from my school district and also from Ohio as a whole plenty, and got to hang out with the Indiana people, too. In ways, I didn't do as much as last year, but as a whole, I felt like I did a lot more. Next year's convention is in Fargo, North Dakota, and I think it'll be really fun to go, since the delegation's invitation was so cute and made North Dakota seem like a really fun place to visit AND I heard from adults that the last convention held in Fargo was one of the best conventions most of them had been to. Quite a lot happened, but I don't feel entirely up to typing it up, and I'm not sure anyone really wants to read about it, so I'll end with that.
Yesterday I looked at the website for the remake of Persona for the PSP, and now I want a PSP badly. Tomorrow, I'll probably look around in local game stores for used PSPs and might even buy one if I find a nice price. So I'll have a PSP but not any PSP games! Lol, I'll probably try to get Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology while I have a PSP anyway, and look up other PSP games online or something.
"Aspice num mage sit nostrum penetrabile telum"
Vergil's Aeneid, Book X line 481
I know I haven't read anywhere near all the lines of the Aeneid, but I still have to say that this is probably one of the most powerful lines in there. It's not all that striking out of context, so it might be hard to understand out of context. Still, when I read this line I felt pierced, struck, probably not unlike how Pallas felt with a spear sticking out of his chest... Okay, not quite so completely struck as having a spear sticking out of me would probably feel, but this line left me completely awestruck. So awestruck that I felt I needed to say it.
See whether our weapon is more able to penetrate.
This one-line quotation from Turnus after he throws his spear after Pallas' spear only grazes him is all the more powerful since most quotations in epic poetry run for several lines. This is the kind of thing that makes me believe that Vergil was actually an honestly good writer.
( Some things I probably should have posted about a while ago )
In other other other other news, I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, in which I will hopefully learn what the results of all those blood tests mean. Hooray!
Vergil's Aeneid, Book X line 481
I know I haven't read anywhere near all the lines of the Aeneid, but I still have to say that this is probably one of the most powerful lines in there. It's not all that striking out of context, so it might be hard to understand out of context. Still, when I read this line I felt pierced, struck, probably not unlike how Pallas felt with a spear sticking out of his chest... Okay, not quite so completely struck as having a spear sticking out of me would probably feel, but this line left me completely awestruck. So awestruck that I felt I needed to say it.
See whether our weapon is more able to penetrate.
This one-line quotation from Turnus after he throws his spear after Pallas' spear only grazes him is all the more powerful since most quotations in epic poetry run for several lines. This is the kind of thing that makes me believe that Vergil was actually an honestly good writer.
( Some things I probably should have posted about a while ago )
In other other other other news, I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, in which I will hopefully learn what the results of all those blood tests mean. Hooray!
Pet Peeves (I'm using the poetic plural)
Oct. 8th, 2008 07:12 pmRecently, in my Latin class (which usually consists of two people sitting in the hallway right outside the Latin room ^_^), we went over there part after the storm where Aeneas looks out over the sea to see if he can see any of his comrades lost at sea. (This is becoming more fun to type than I had expected.) Anyway, one of the guys he's looking for is Antheus, who died, I'm assuming. However, as Ian and I were translating the part about Antheus, Ian interjected, "He had it coming." He often interjects really bizarre things while we're going over Latin, but there wasn't anything to imply that Antheus had it coming. Ian proceeded to insist that Antheus MUST have had it coming, said that I needed to read between the lines to find it, and even wrote "Antheus had it coming" between the lines transliterated into Greek.
Anyway, I decided to see if I could find anything on the wonderful internet about Antheus (but didn't find any information of use.) While searching, I went to Wikipedia, but while taking a detour to the Nisus and Euryalus article (^_^) I began to notice that quite a number of people can't seem to spell Vergil's name correctly. I ended up changing a few 'i's to 'e's on a couple of Wikipedia articles.
It's Publius Vergilius Maro. Therefore, if one is to shorten his name, then it makes far more sense to call him Vergil than whatever nonsensical name some people are calling him.
Most people would probably think that I should just get over it, but I expect it to bother me for the rest of my life. (Unless, of course, people wise up and realize there's only one i in Vergil, and only 2 in Vergilius.) Hey, the Oxford Guide to Style has it right, but not Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergil#Virgil.27s_name_in_English
Surely you don't want people confusing Publius Vergilius Maro with Virgilius Maro Grammaticus, do you?
Anyway, I decided to see if I could find anything on the wonderful internet about Antheus (but didn't find any information of use.) While searching, I went to Wikipedia, but while taking a detour to the Nisus and Euryalus article (^_^) I began to notice that quite a number of people can't seem to spell Vergil's name correctly. I ended up changing a few 'i's to 'e's on a couple of Wikipedia articles.
It's Publius Vergilius Maro. Therefore, if one is to shorten his name, then it makes far more sense to call him Vergil than whatever nonsensical name some people are calling him.
Most people would probably think that I should just get over it, but I expect it to bother me for the rest of my life. (Unless, of course, people wise up and realize there's only one i in Vergil, and only 2 in Vergilius.) Hey, the Oxford Guide to Style has it right, but not Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergil#Virgil.27s_name_in_English
Surely you don't want people confusing Publius Vergilius Maro with Virgilius Maro Grammaticus, do you?
Looking forward to a week of Latin fun
Jul. 26th, 2008 07:48 pmIt's actually slightly less than a week (:<), but that's not important. What is important is that I'm leaving to go to NJCL convention tomorrow morning, and I won't be returning until late morning or early afternoon on Saturday. Just in case, in the unlikely event that anyone was planning to try to contact me next week, don't... or at least don't expect me to be able to respond right away.
Since I assume that few people actually know what NJCL stands for, and since I don't want to leave anyone who's actually bothering to read this completely confused, NJCL stands for National Junior Classical League. And by classical, I mean Greece and Rome, so most members are Latin students. The convention is a time when JCLers come together to hang out, compete, and be spirited about the classics!
Anyway, I have the photography project I signed up for pretty much taken care of, so I can stop worrying and actually look forward to it. I've never entered a graphics arts contest at a JCL convention before, so I don't know what to think. (Although I did hang out with people while they were registering their graphics arts projects last year.) As usual, I'll be doing a bunch of academic contests. I'll also be doing Latin sight reading poetry. I probably should've practiced reading poetry, but whatever, it's not like there isn't still time to do so.
Only 4 people are going from my school, and since the other 3 are male, I was not able to designate a roommate. Thus, like last year, I will probably be roomed with some other girl from Ohio. Perhaps, unlike last year, I will actually talk to her...
It should be fun to be a delegate from the host state. Our teacher told us to be there by noon on Sunday, which is fairly early. I can only assume that she wants us there so early to help out, since that's what delegates from the host state are supposed to do.
Anyway, it should be fun to hang out with some fellow Latin students from school, as well as Latin students from the other high school in our district, and that Tennessee delegate the Ohio delegation adopted last year. I might make some new friends, and I might not. Either way, it should be a great week.
If I'm in the mood soon after I return, I might make some sort of post in review.
See ya!
Since I assume that few people actually know what NJCL stands for, and since I don't want to leave anyone who's actually bothering to read this completely confused, NJCL stands for National Junior Classical League. And by classical, I mean Greece and Rome, so most members are Latin students. The convention is a time when JCLers come together to hang out, compete, and be spirited about the classics!
Anyway, I have the photography project I signed up for pretty much taken care of, so I can stop worrying and actually look forward to it. I've never entered a graphics arts contest at a JCL convention before, so I don't know what to think. (Although I did hang out with people while they were registering their graphics arts projects last year.) As usual, I'll be doing a bunch of academic contests. I'll also be doing Latin sight reading poetry. I probably should've practiced reading poetry, but whatever, it's not like there isn't still time to do so.
Only 4 people are going from my school, and since the other 3 are male, I was not able to designate a roommate. Thus, like last year, I will probably be roomed with some other girl from Ohio. Perhaps, unlike last year, I will actually talk to her...
It should be fun to be a delegate from the host state. Our teacher told us to be there by noon on Sunday, which is fairly early. I can only assume that she wants us there so early to help out, since that's what delegates from the host state are supposed to do.
Anyway, it should be fun to hang out with some fellow Latin students from school, as well as Latin students from the other high school in our district, and that Tennessee delegate the Ohio delegation adopted last year. I might make some new friends, and I might not. Either way, it should be a great week.
If I'm in the mood soon after I return, I might make some sort of post in review.
See ya!
And now I finally get around to it.
( Long post is looong... )
Recently, I've been writing down the info for a fantasy world I've come up with in which I might write stories and/or try to throw together an rp. If anyone shows interest, I might post some of that information on here. I might do it even if no one shows interest, though.
Well, this has been a learning experience. If I feel like posting but wait a while before actually posting, it will probably end up long. Maybe so long that no one will actually have the patience or attention span to read it, oh noez!
Well, a bit of a belated hello to those cool peeps I met on friending memes. I hope that you'll enjoy getting to know the bundle of nerdiness that is I as much as I enjoy getting to know all of you.
Edit: Oh my, I forgot that I wanted to mention this. Because one of my friends did it, I made my religious views on facebook "Haruhiist." I'm now tempted to add Fujoshi to that and see if anyone notices.
( Long post is looong... )
Recently, I've been writing down the info for a fantasy world I've come up with in which I might write stories and/or try to throw together an rp. If anyone shows interest, I might post some of that information on here. I might do it even if no one shows interest, though.
Well, this has been a learning experience. If I feel like posting but wait a while before actually posting, it will probably end up long. Maybe so long that no one will actually have the patience or attention span to read it, oh noez!
Well, a bit of a belated hello to those cool peeps I met on friending memes. I hope that you'll enjoy getting to know the bundle of nerdiness that is I as much as I enjoy getting to know all of you.
Edit: Oh my, I forgot that I wanted to mention this. Because one of my friends did it, I made my religious views on facebook "Haruhiist." I'm now tempted to add Fujoshi to that and see if anyone notices.
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In an earlier entry, I wrote about a footrace that took place in book V of the Aeneid, in which Nisus tripped a guy so Euryalus could win the race. Good news! They're back in book IX, and they're still friends... or more...
( If I don't watch out, I'll start to contemplate writing fanfiction )
Also, in this second event involving Nisus and Euryalus, Vergil uses the metaphor of a flower crushed by a passing plow. (For those of you who don't get this reference, I'm amused because Catullus used this metaphor in one of his poems, and Vergil is believed to have been influenced by Catullus.) Once again, book IX is not on the AP syllabus, and once again, I will look this part of it up online sometime. (I sniff a conspiracy on the part of the College Board.)
Also of note in the Aeneid, I've noticed quite a number of the young men in this war are described as "handsome". Oh Vergil, you amuse me so. (And people thought he was proto-Christian. What a joke!)
( If I don't watch out, I'll start to contemplate writing fanfiction )
Also, in this second event involving Nisus and Euryalus, Vergil uses the metaphor of a flower crushed by a passing plow. (For those of you who don't get this reference, I'm amused because Catullus used this metaphor in one of his poems, and Vergil is believed to have been influenced by Catullus.) Once again, book IX is not on the AP syllabus, and once again, I will look this part of it up online sometime. (I sniff a conspiracy on the part of the College Board.)
Also of note in the Aeneid, I've noticed quite a number of the young men in this war are described as "handsome". Oh Vergil, you amuse me so. (And people thought he was proto-Christian. What a joke!)
Cuteness in Vergil's Aeneid
Jun. 11th, 2008 05:02 pm(All quotes used in the following post are from Allen Mandelbaum's translation of Vergil's Aeneid.)
I have to read a translation of the entire Aeneid for my independent study of AP Latin: Vergil next year, and I was reading book V when I came upon something positively ADORABLE:
After a 9-day-long period of mourning on the one-year anniversary of Aeneas' father's death, Aeneas holds athletic competitions. After the boat race, a good old footrace is held. Amongst other young men (all mentioned by name in there, but not here, due to their lack of importance in the incidence of cuteness), Euryalus, Nisus, and Salius compete in this race. Salius is an Acarnian, and Nisus and Euryalus are described thusly: "Euryalus renowned for handsomeness and for his fresh youth, Nisus for his honest love of the boy." Needless to say, my attention was already caught by this footrace.
The footrace starts, and Nisus, Salius, and Euryalus are in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, respectively. Unfortunately, Nisus slips on some blood from some steer (sacrificial, I would guess, from that long mourning period), "And yet he did not forget Euryalus, not even then forget his love." Nisus trips Salius, and Euryalus wins the race.
I immediately wanted to tell someone about this EPICALLY (get it?) ADORABLE moment, but sadly, Ian is off on the Italy trip.
This is my favorite part of the Aeneid so far, which is kinda sad, considering that we don't translate any of book V as part of the AP syllabus, which is a shame because many Latin students will miss out on this positively ADORABLE moment. (I understand why it's not on the syllabus: it has absolutely no relevance to the general plotline.) Eheu, I suppose I'll probably look up the actually Latin online sometime anyway.
I have to read a translation of the entire Aeneid for my independent study of AP Latin: Vergil next year, and I was reading book V when I came upon something positively ADORABLE:
After a 9-day-long period of mourning on the one-year anniversary of Aeneas' father's death, Aeneas holds athletic competitions. After the boat race, a good old footrace is held. Amongst other young men (all mentioned by name in there, but not here, due to their lack of importance in the incidence of cuteness), Euryalus, Nisus, and Salius compete in this race. Salius is an Acarnian, and Nisus and Euryalus are described thusly: "Euryalus renowned for handsomeness and for his fresh youth, Nisus for his honest love of the boy." Needless to say, my attention was already caught by this footrace.
The footrace starts, and Nisus, Salius, and Euryalus are in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, respectively. Unfortunately, Nisus slips on some blood from some steer (sacrificial, I would guess, from that long mourning period), "And yet he did not forget Euryalus, not even then forget his love." Nisus trips Salius, and Euryalus wins the race.
I immediately wanted to tell someone about this EPICALLY (get it?) ADORABLE moment, but sadly, Ian is off on the Italy trip.
This is my favorite part of the Aeneid so far, which is kinda sad, considering that we don't translate any of book V as part of the AP syllabus, which is a shame because many Latin students will miss out on this positively ADORABLE moment. (I understand why it's not on the syllabus: it has absolutely no relevance to the general plotline.) Eheu, I suppose I'll probably look up the actually Latin online sometime anyway.
I've wanted to post this for about a week or so because I had showed this amazing fact to some of my friends. Although there's a very small chance anyone besides the someone(s) to whom I've already shown it will read this, I feel like posting it anyway.
Is this a sign that I will start posting semi-regularly? Most likely not, but there are so many things I'd like torant about say.
Anyway, on to the point, according to the New College Latin & English Dictionary by John C. Traupman, Ph.D.:
frater -tris m brother; cousin; (euphem) (homosexual) sex partner
And then there's some other stuff about what some phrases containing frater mean, but they're not the point.
The point is, here's some clear evidence that Latin is the best language ever (although I question the use of a future imperative)... and that the Romans were a very interesting group of people. If you doubt that this word was ever used in this way, I've read a translation of the Satyricon from the 1920's or 40's, and it used the word brother in translation. The people to whom it referred were not brothers. Unless the Romans were stranger than I thought...
Is this a sign that I will start posting semi-regularly? Most likely not, but there are so many things I'd like to
Anyway, on to the point, according to the New College Latin & English Dictionary by John C. Traupman, Ph.D.:
frater -tris m brother; cousin; (euphem) (homosexual) sex partner
And then there's some other stuff about what some phrases containing frater mean, but they're not the point.
The point is, here's some clear evidence that Latin is the best language ever (although I question the use of a future imperative)... and that the Romans were a very interesting group of people. If you doubt that this word was ever used in this way, I've read a translation of the Satyricon from the 1920's or 40's, and it used the word brother in translation. The people to whom it referred were not brothers. Unless the Romans were stranger than I thought...
Fun with Latin!!! (aka: I have no life)
Jun. 15th, 2007 09:04 amAmazing! I'm actually posting!
So yeah, I have this crazy idea that I want to get a 5 on the AP Latin test, so anything that could improve my Latin skillz would help out with that a lot. There's also the fact that there's a slight chance I could get onto the Ohio certamen team for NJCL. And I'm going to be taking several tests at NJCL anyway. (Even if I can't make it into competitive certamen, I'll still be doing open certamen :))
So, with that and my newfound love for Franz Ferdinand's song "Michael" (btw, best band name ever), I've decided to do something really nerdy and translate the lyrics of that song into Latin, as well as I possibly can.
Resources used: http://e-lyrics.org/song.php?id=184 for the lyrics, The New College Latin and English Dictionary, and previous Latin knowledge gained from schooling.
So yeah, I have this crazy idea that I want to get a 5 on the AP Latin test, so anything that could improve my Latin skillz would help out with that a lot. There's also the fact that there's a slight chance I could get onto the Ohio certamen team for NJCL. And I'm going to be taking several tests at NJCL anyway. (Even if I can't make it into competitive certamen, I'll still be doing open certamen :))
So, with that and my newfound love for Franz Ferdinand's song "Michael" (btw, best band name ever), I've decided to do something really nerdy and translate the lyrics of that song into Latin, as well as I possibly can.
Resources used: http://e-lyrics.org/song.php?id=184 for the lyrics, The New College Latin and English Dictionary, and previous Latin knowledge gained from schooling.
( The translation )
