talis erat Dido, talem se laeta ferebat per medios, instans operi regnisque futuris. She is fast, thorough, and sharp as a tack She is touring the facility and picking up slack Same vibes

Omg this is great. The initial reading is so bananas www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...

The AP Latin teachers Facebook group is constantly complaining about how boring Pliny is. And I’m like, “You all read Caesar for years, and you’re calling PLINY boring???”

The book I have been waiting for! So many congrats to the amazing Kim Bowes on the publication day of _ Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent_ ⚒️💜 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Mildly interesting: the French word “chalumeau” (blowtorch) isn’t related to “chaleur” or the other heat-related words, it comes from “calamus” (reed)

Yesterday I sat through some PD about using AI to simplify texts. I tried it out and the results were... not fantastic

Normally I'm not a guy who insists on pedantic plurals for loanwords, but basing the English plural of "axolotl" on its Nahuatl plural "axolomeh" is really cool and I'm going to start doing it. Especially because I'm seeing a lot of axolomeh in kids' stuff recently, I think it's a trend

Oh ok

Update: I’ve learned that the new syllabus doesn’t get into this level of detail, so all this hair-splitting is totally needless

In Catonem: Reject the Spirit of Cato stanfordreview.org/in-catonem-r...

Nec illos nec alium quemquam regnare passurum

When I’m old, I can hope they call me “ille acriculus senex”

I asked the AP Latin Facebook group "Umm this is a lot of content, how can I possibly cover the syllabus texts and the teacher's choice material?" and the best response I got is "Just choose not to do the teacher's choice material" lol

Bit of self-promotion: I have published a commentary on a selection of Martial's epigrams, so if you are a Latin teacher/instructor...or a fan of having Latin grammar and rhetorical devices analyzed...feel free to check it out. a.co/d/e1FBrHH

There is not enough Japanese Tevye on Bluesky. So here is some Japanese Tevye. Please enjoy. youtu.be/YpxHJsal7ao?...

Mash faciunt cuncti—monstrorum mash videamus! Cerne sepulcralem, vir mulierque, chorum!

Sure, you have anxiety, but did they write a monograph about your anxiety?

The AP Latin Facebook group is like 70% anxious posts asking which use of the subjunctive Pliny is using, and I don’t enjoy it tbh

I woke up to a review of a book published by a convicted felon in my field, and it's interesting to read that in the book, he attempts to depersonalize Cicero, to separate the man from the work. That's probably a neutral choice.

AP Latin me ad insaniam agit

Once again reminding everyone to read Roman Republics by Harriet Flower

Did a double take and thought my used edition of Propertius once belonged to J. C. McKeown

The AP Latin core vocab list contains a list of 1,000 words that students are responsible for knowing, which contains all the frequent words in the core readings, plus some "high-frequency vocabulary." But this vocab includes random proper names? That aren't in the readings at all?

As an IB Latin teacher I got used to making my own stuff. No worries about reinventing the wheel: the wheel hasn't been invented in the first place. But AP Latin... it's already out there? Like, the Bridge has the word list already loaded? I didn't need to do it myself last weekend? Blowing my mind

I've never been sure how to do this in Latin. "It doesn't matter whether this is true or false" Is it "Non refert hoc verum an falsum sit"? Or do you need two "an"s, like "Non refert hoc an verum an falsum sit"?

If nothing else, this new AP Latin syllabus is going to teach a generation of Latin students (and teachers) what a iatralipta is

So, my school will no longer be an IB school after next year, so we're looking into AP Latin. I've got one or two students piloting it this year. And I have some questions My first question is: what the ***? A follow-up: how the ****?

'Casina' by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation / Catherine Tracy #openaccess www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Annus quindecimus incipiat!

There should be more statues of famous people doing whatever random job they happened to be doing when they were 24

Just getting to Tuesday’s NYT crossword, and what was with “Roman orator who said ‘Silence is one of the great arts of conversation”??? Dude. Of course Cicero never said that, because he—famously—never knew when to shut it But I did track down the origin of the fake quote…

Are there any Latin teachers out there who have a comp lit/world lit component to their courses? What are some of the activities and readings you do? I've been regularly hitting up used bookstores and getting premodern literature from around the world, and I'd love to actually use them in class...

I’ve officially gotten to the point where I’ve started writing elegiac couplets in students’ yearbooks

OPEN-SOURCE TEXTBOOK ALERT A student stumbled upon some open-source resources out of the University of British Columbia and they're really stellar! Check these out! 1. "UnRoman Romans," a sourcebook on marginalized groups in ancient Rome (ed. Siobhán McElduff) pressbooks.bccampus.ca/unromantest/

Two updates! 1. I'm slowly getting more active here (it's nice to see so many familiar faces!) So hi everyone! 2. Part 1 of my Roman Republic Latin novella is done! I'm looking for folks who'd be willing to read it and give feedback on language, plot, and historical accuracy. Reply or DM me!

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