New Latin School in Philadelphia A really interesting article on the new Boys’ Latin School in the Philadelphia Weekly. Here’s the beginning:An ambitious Southwest Philadelphia charte Continue Reading →
Dormouse In the derivatives of dormio in the vocabulary section of ch. 31, Wheelock lists ‘dormouse’. I gave it a quick look-up in the OED. The etymology was i Continue Reading →
Memory, Pleasure, and Suffering/Aeneas, Odysseus, and Eumaios It is well known that Aeneas’ speech in Aeneid 1.198-207 draws on a speech of Odysseus in Odyssey 12.208ff. (see, e.g., R.D. Williams ad A.1.198f. Her Continue Reading →
