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daily-dose-of-dopamine · 2 years

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Winnie Ille Pu

Who the heck translated Winnie the Pooh into Latin. Why would you ever do that.

(It is a rhetorical question: I am aware of the translator on the cover.)

I found another Pooh book in Latin!

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quantumshade · 2 years

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with the pussy having been so fine she sends you into the ablative absolute

#classics #latin #latin memes #classics memes #ablative absolute #op #brought to you by. me trying to write in english and i keep using latin phrasing #delia.txt

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interretialia · 3 months

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Nova Iuncta Verba Latina / New Latin Compounds

equipuella -ae f. “horse girl” [equus “horse” + puella “girl”] [equo- + puella-] stems [equi- + puella-] o becomes Connecting Vowel i [equipuella-] new stem [equipuella] nominative singular

(Fons Imaginis.)

#New Latin Compounds #horse girl #horsegirl #horsegirls #horse girls #Word Formation #Latin Word Formation #latin #latin language #latin translation #lingua latina #tagamemnon #latin fandom #latin meme #latin memes #meme #memes

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threelionsgirl · 10 months

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viva latinoamérica supremacia

#brazil #brazil nt #latin memes #argentina #argentina nt #germany nt #germany #uruguay #uruguay nt #england #england nt #france #france nt #spain nt #spain #italy nt #italy #latam tag

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tower-of-hana · 1 month

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I love the latin 4th declension; it truly serves no other purpose than trolling.

"Oh domus ends in -us so it must be 2nd declension masculine"

OBJECTION

domus, domūs, domui, domum, domu, domus, domūs, domuum, domibus, domūs, domibus, domūs also it's feminine

#linguistics #linguistic #languages #shitpost #lingblr #linguist shitpost #latin #classics #classics shitpost #classics memes #latin memes #latin meme #latin shitpost #they also tell you it's only a couple words but don't tell you they're the most important words

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amphibimations · 5 months

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31- sextus est puer molestus

This is literally the only bit of latin I remember from middle school.

I got kicked out of latin class because in high school it was only offered as an honors class and my grades werent good enough lol

Did anyone else use ecci romani? i was so into the story.

#comic #comics #webcomic #latin #ecce romani #latin memes #latin class #classics #lingua latina #latin language #school #middle school #diary comic #student #other

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shoulda-been-a-redhead · 1 year

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#latin memes #greek memes #greek class #nerd #latin nerd #classics memes #classicist memes #latin alive #ecce romani #funny

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octoberhorse · 20 days

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Paleontology is cool and all, but did you know that

War pigs are pigs reported to have been used in ancient warfare as military animals, mostly as a countermeasure against war elephants.

In the 1st century BCE, the Roman author Lucretius noted that humans may have attempted to launch wild beasts, such as lions or "savage boars", against the enemy, but with catastrophic results. In 272 BCE, it was recorded that the Romans used wild boars in their fight against the war elephants of the Tarantines. According to a legend recounted in the "Alexander Romance" by Pseudo-Callisthenes, the Macedonian Emperor Alexander the Great learned about this "secret weapon" against war elephants from King Porus in India.

The Roman naval and army commander Pliny the Elder reported that "elephants are scared by the smallest squeal of the hog". Roman author and teacher Aelian confirmed that elephants were frightened by squealing pigs and rams with horns, and reported that the Romans exploited both squealing pigs and horned rams to repel the war elephants of Pyrrhus in 275 BCE. Byzantine Greek scholar Procopius, in History of the Wars, recorded that the defenders of Edessa suspended a squealing pig from the walls to frighten away Khosrau's single siege elephant in the 6th century CE.

Historical accounts of incendiary pigs or flaming pigs were recorded by the Greek military writer Polyaenus and by Aelian. Both writers reported that Antigonus II Gonatas' siege of Megara in 266 BCE was broken when the Megarians doused some pigs with combustible pitch, crude oil or resin, set them alight, and drove them towards the enemy's massed war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror from the flaming, squealing pigs, often killing great numbers of their own soldiers by trampling them to death. According to an account, Gonatas later made his mahouts keep a swine among elephants to accustom the animals to pigs and this practice was immortalized by a Roman bronze coin dating back to his time, which showed an elephant on one side and a pig on the other.

As late as the 16th century, the supposed terror of the elephant for the squealing pig was reported by the English politician

Reginald Scot.

#war pigs #long post #paleontology #ancient rome #rome #classics #latin memes #latin language #roman history #thank god for Wikipedia

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madebypointlesswords · 10 months

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Rating all the Latin authors I've read in the past two years in honor of my oral Latin exam tomorrow

Caesar (De Bello Gallico)

This is a weird one because while his prose isn't extremely difficult, it was also the first unedited work I read, so for lil 15-year-old me, this was very difficult. But I learned a lot from Caesar (especially that he made it an art to making his sentences as long as possible. We read an entire 200 words, and IT WAS JUST ONE SENTENCE.), and the sense of nostalgia while rereading it is very pleasant, so I will give you a solid 6/10

Pliny the Younger (Epistulae)

Mixed feelings about this one again. This could also be just because I despise prose. I really do not like it at all. Pliny's epistulae were pretty okay. I liked them a little better than Caesar's because of their variety (for those that don't know, epistulae means letters). His letter about the Vesuvius was a lot of fun to translate, even with all the hyperbata, but his letters about or to his third wife were very uncomfortable. Like, I get things were different back then. BUT YOU WERE 45, PLINY. 45. SHE WAS WHAT? 14? 15 TOPS? MY GOD. THAT'S A BIGGER AGE DIFFERENCE THAN I HAVE WITH MY FATHER.

7/10

Ovid (Metamorphoses)

Ovid is life Ovid is love. He was the one who introduced me to Latin poetry, and I will always love him for it. He was an icon and a legend. The poems of his that we read (Daedalus & Icarus, Latona and the Lycian peasants, Diana and Actaeon) were all bangers, and I love them all to death. I never wanted to go back to reading prose after this (but unfortunately, I will have to next year. ew)

11/10 (I love you, Ovid)

Vergil (The Aeneid)

*deep sigh* Listen. I love his complex works, and I have great respect for this poem but by the GODS. Vergil's poetry is the most difficult I've had to translate by a long shot. He made me rethink my entire career in Latin. I have considered quitting so many times because of this man. I felt like a complete idiot most of the time. This is not a guy to fuck with. Luckily I got through it on my finals (barely.) but Christ alive this man made my life difficult.

5/10

Horatius (Satires and Odes)

Horatius will always have a special place in my heart. We read his poetry right after Vergil's, and it almost completely restored my faith in my abilities. He's just my little guy and I have fond memories of translating his works. We still know many Latin phrases that he wrote (Carpe Diem being the most famous. Hello, DPS fandom). Also, he and Vergil were most definitely in love. I don't make the rules. I have evidence if you want me to elaborate.

9/10

Catullus (love poems)

Ah, Catullus. Horny poet of the year. Had a wild affair with an older married woman. Nepotism baby. Sappho stan. Didn't know how to budget, but we aren't holding that against him. Just wanted to write poetry and dance (who doesn't, honestly). Gave fuck-all about education. Wrote nearly all of his poetry about the older woman he had an affair with. Might I add that this woman was married to one of his father's bestest buddies? Yeah. Icon. Here's a kid's choice award.

8/10

Martialis (Epigrams)

This dude had ZERO chill. Roasted everyone in the city. Literally, no one is safe. Wasn't afraid to call people out by their real names. Some people allegedly committed suicide after being roasted by this guy. Translating his epigrams gave me more joy than hearing we had seen the end of Vergil. His humour may be a little silly now, but I will not accept any Martialis slander on my blog.

10/10

And that is all folks