LATIN CUMULATIVE

1. fatum - fate
2. moinia - many
3. osculum - eye
4. dignus - dignity
5. tantus - so much that
6. ita - so, thus
7. sic - so
8. vero - in truth
9. contendo - to argue
10. pugno - to fight
11. sergo - to arise
12. arma - arms, weapons
13. luna - moon
14. parens - parent
15. vesper - evening star
16. princeps - first, foremost
17. ne - not
18. dedico - to dediate
19. expleo - to argue
20. taceo - to feel
21. delectatio - feeling, sence
22. sol - sun
23. dissmilis - unlike
24. humilis - human
25. primus - first, major
26. similes - similar to
27. utilis - useful
28. probo - to test
29. cena - dinner
30. lex - light
31. lux - law
32. nox - night
33. quidam - how many
34. superbus - to be above
35. turpus - harsh
36. prae + ablative -
37. tantam - delight
38. lingua - language
39. fidelis - faith
40. sapiens - wisdom
41. dehinc - so that
42. it, iunt -
43. yaceo - to yell
44. nescio - to negate
45. patefacio -
46. spero - to spare
47. Cartago - Carthage
48. imperator -
49. Perfugium - refuge
50. solacium - solace
51. re - again
52. postea - before
53. excipio - to exclaim
54. pello - to
55. narro - to tell
56. rideo - to laugh at
57. arx - citadel
58. ecus, eci - again
59. insula - island
60. miles - soldier
61. secerdos - second, the latter
62. quisquis - who, what
63. umquam - because
64. gaudeo -
65. peto - to ask, argue
66. opprimo - to oppress
67. diez - day
68. fides - faith
69. modes - mode
70. rez publica - the public
71. icuus -
72. incertus - not certain
73. medius - help, aid
74. ultra - the final, extreme
75. cerno -
76. inquit - inquire
77. casa - house
78. fenestra-
79. gens - origin
80. navis - navigator
81. Troyae - Troy
82. vulgus - rough, crude
83. atque - because
84. contineo - to contain
85. laboro - to work
86. relinquo - to give up
87. tengo -
88. canurati -
89. fructus - fruit
90. manus - hand
91. mons - mountain
92. sensus - the senate
93. spiritus - breath
94. communis - common
95. senester, senistra - left
96. defendo - to defend
97. audi - to hear
98. pronuntio - to say, answer
99. argumentum - arguement
100. beneficium - benefit

Bonus: Veritas - Truth

Thing, forgot the name sorry

In truth, Speakers are able to be equal at the Latin, Greek, and Roman speaking; for Cicero would go and match with anyone, even Demosthenes. This hour I think my strength is similar: plan, rank, reason, and finally all which is creativity. There is some difference in speaking ability: Demosthenes' is thick, Cicero's is rich, Demosthenes fights subtlety often, Cicero has weight, Demosthenes has much care, in Cicero there is much nature. M.Tullius however (mihi?) sees represent (vim?) Demosthenes, abundance Plato, delight the famous Greek orator. For what I teach is diligent, to be able to move more empathetically? With so great delight at a time
(line 10 finished)

Imperfect of Esse, subjunctive

Essem
Esses
Esset
Essemus
Essemini
Essemunt

Chapter 29 Quiz

1. fatum - fate
2. ingemium - nature
3. moinia - walls of the city
4. nata -
5. osculum -
6. sidus -
7. dignus - worthy
8. dorus -
9. tantus - vey large
10. denique -
11. ita - so thus
12. quida - how
13. sec - so thus
14. tamquam -
15. vero - in truth
16. condo - to devour
17. contendo - to contend with
18. moleo - to fight
19. pugno - to fight
20. respondo - to do back, respond
21. surgo - to surge

Greece Riots Blog

(Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the boy that started all of this chaos)


In Greece, there have been several riots over 2 officers shooting a teenage Alexandros Grigoropoulos. This mere murder has brought chaos across Greece, where teenagers would attack buildings and break windows and such. Anarchists that probably disliked the govenment of Greece used this situation to take advantage of corrupt government workers, in order to persuade people to fight back. So far they have been sucessful, rioting people against the government for 3 days now. It is hard to know if the people here are really sorry for the boy murdered, or they are more mad at the govenment.

Zodiac: The stories behind the signs

There are 12 signs to the Zodiac. Each sign is given a certain number of days to represent over, and each sign has a meaning behind it.
Aquarius is the first sign, starting from January 20th to February 19th. Aquarius is depicted as a young man holding a bucket with overflowing water. In mythology he was carried off to Mount Olympus where he would serve as the cup bearer to gods. The constellation Eridanus was believed to be a river being poured by Aquarius.
Pisces is the second sign, starting from February 19th to March 21st. Pisces appears to be two fish that are tied together as seen in constellation form. They are appearently epreentative of when Aphrodite and Eros transformed into fish in order to avoid the Typhon, and tied themselves together in order to not lose one another.
Aries is the third sign, starting from march 21st to April 20th. Aries is supposed to reprsent a ram in which the gods of olympus commanded to rescue Helle and Phrixos, and while it was succesful in rescuing Phrixos, Helle ended up with Poseidon. Phrixos was grateful for the gods and therefore sacrificed Aries.
Taurus is the fourth sign, lasting from April 21st to May 22nd. Taurus literally means "bull" and is related in mythology significantly. Zeus takes the form of a white bull in order to seduce Europa, and therefore fathers Minos.
Gemini is te fifth sign, lasting from May 22nd to Jun 23rd. The gemini in Mythology were the twins Castor and Polydeuces, and they were identified commonly as thieving cattle.
Cancer is the sixth sign, lasting from June 23rd to July 23rd. Cancer resembled a crab in greek mythology that was tied into the twelve labos of Hercules. When Hercules fought the Hydra Hera sent Cancer to try to distract, but Hercules easily crushed him. Hera felt pity for heroic crab, and therfore gave it a place in he sky.
Leo is the 7th sign, lasting from July 23rd to August 23rd. Leo represents the Nemean Lion, who is to be slain by Hercules as one of his 12 Labors, and would later be put in the sky.
Virgo is the 8th sign, lasting from August 23rd to September 23rd. Virgo represent any and every goddess mentioned in Mythology, and can also represent Mary, the mother of Jesus. It has been interpreted that she is Astraena, daughter of Zeus and Themis.
Libra is the 9th sign, lasting from September 23rd to October 23rd. Libra vaguely depicts a set of scales which are held by Astraela, also known as Virgo.
Scorpius is the 10th sign, lsating from October 23rd to November 22nd. Scorpius resembles a scorpion's tale, with the stinger and a little bit of the scorpion's body. In mythology, this represents the scorpion sent by Hera to kill Orion.
Sagittarius is the 10th sign, lasting from November 23rd to December 22nd. Sagittarius represents the centuar, a man who has a horses body from the torso to his feet (hooves).He appearently turned himself into a horse to escape his jealous wife Rhea.
Capricornus is the 11th and last sign, lasting from December 22nd to January 20th. It represents the goat Amalthea, who nursed Zeus as a baby when he was sent away from his mother to avoid Cronus eating him.
These are all the signs of the Zodiac.

Days of the Week

The names of the days of the week in English derive from Roman god names, similarly to the names of the planets. The gods fit for that day are naed for that day because the day has a meaning expressed by that God.
Sunday was named after the sun, because that day was dedicated to the sun and/or its worship, or worship in general. It was the 1st day o the week, and Christians continue the value of itsname by worsipping on sunday (only they do not worship a "sun god").
Monday was named for the moon an its worship, like sunday. Its name is moon-day, for it is the day dedicated to the moon like sun-day is dedicated to the sun.
Tuesday was named after Mars, the Roman god that presided over war and occaisonally law. It derives from "Tiig," "Tig," or "Tuisco," and makes tuesday a court day or a day for combating.
Wednesday's name derived from Wodin or the better known Odin, who was a god in paganism in northern Europe. The planet representing Wednesday is Mercury, who can be seen by the pagans fnorthern europe as an alias of Odin.
Thursday's name derives from the pagan god Thor, the norse god of thunder. The planet and Roman god that represents Thor is Jupiter.
Friday's name derives from being named for the Norse (pagan) goddess Frigg, who's Roman equivalent is Venus. Friday also represents the planet Venus.
Saturday is the only day that derives directly from a Roman god. The planet and the god associated with it are named saturn, which is the greek equivalent of Cronus.

The spanish calender also has similar roots, as both are named from Roman terms. The spanish monday "lunes" is deriving from "luna" meaning moon. Martes (tuesday) refers to the roman god Mars. Miercoles (wednesday) refers to the Roman god Mercury. Viernes (friday) refers to the Roman god Venus.

One can conclude from all of this stuff that basically the english and spanish calender derive from being named after Roman dieties, and the planets.

Google Earth - Rome

In google earth, they have created a new layer to view, ancinet rome. It will allow you to see ancient rome as it was in 320 AD. You can fly above it and look down on it in a birds eye view. Each building is in 3D, and you can look at markers put on the building to see the background of the building and that.

Story

So campbells was a successful soup company, and they sold soups all over the world. They became so powerful that they established enough wealth to establish a colony of islands in northeastern micronesia called "Cambbelia"Recently Campbells has created Canneli Kidney beans and Golden Corn to sell to their customers in the republic of Cambellia, and they have become so successful that they have risen to the tops of the charts for soup sales, despite them not being soups. Then one brilliant scientist had an idea, to fuse the successes together into one ultimate supersoldier soup thing. The scientist created the Canelli Golden Corn, and became one of the most effective supersoldiers for cambellia. This supersoldier created from kidney beans and canned corn was a main instrument for many of the high profile assassinations of the corrupt leaders of cambellia, and came to be known as a hero, kinda like james bond or batman. He also had a sidekick, garbanzo pumpkin, another supersoldier and taiwan noodle tuna salad, the rookie assassin that worked along their sides in the secret service of the cambells soup company. One day they were required to assassinate the department manager for the distribution of soups to poland, aka elbows water chestnuts. But before they could assassinate him, they found out that he possessed a valuable prisoner of his own that he threatened to kill, chicken soup bean sprouts. She was no ordinary prisoner; she was the presidents daughter. So they went recon on him, and despite that "elbows" enslaved her they were able to communicate with her somehow. They told her to kill him, and so she got the guts to fnally do so. But before she was about to take the fatal blow she looked at his nutrition facts and realized that he was her father all along because they both had %2 potassium. She was so depressed that she jumped off the headquarters and died a very red and bean sprouty death. Mission failed.

Chapter 26 Vocab

1. deletatio - delight
2. nepos - descendant
3. sol - sun
4. diligens, diligentis - diligent
5. dissimilis - unlike
6. gracilis - thin
7. humilis - humble
8. meior - older
9. primus - first, foremost
10. quot - how many
11. similis - like
12. superas - above
13. utilis -

Chapter 25 Vocab

1. cena - dinner
2. forum -
3. lex - law
4. lemens, lemenus - light
5. lux, lucus - light
6. mensa, mensae -
7. nox, noctis -
8. somnus - solumn
9. pudicus -
10. superbus -
11. tristes, triste -

The Death of Laocoon ... and Troy

Here another great fear (O miserable tale!) terrfies our blind spirit. Laocoon, made a priest of Neptune by fortune, was sacrificing a fierce bull on an alter on a shore. Then mighty twin serpents, pressing from the ocean, came to the shore. They held the shore, having eyes blazed with fire, and had mouths licking with hissing tongues. We all fled; the snakes aimed at Laocon and the sons. First, they caught the little bodies of those two boys and mangled, slaughtered, and ate them. Then they snatched the stoic father, who ran to the poor sons, and was held and also overcame with their great coils. He could not protect himself from injury nor flee, and he raised terrifying screams to heaven just as the wounded bull to the alter. At this time the serpents fled, and sought shelter in the field of wise Minerva. We had thought he had erred and paid his debt, because Laocoon had thrown a spear inito Minerva's horse, but we have been ignorant of the harsh truth. Opening these gates to bring the horse to the city; and boys and girls --- O fatherland, O great gods, O Troy --- they rejoice to touch it. We rejoice miserable ourselves, too, for that day was the final and there also was no relief.

Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greece was dedicated to a variety of reasons, often if the person/people that are sacrificing think that they owe something to a god. In the sacrifice, they offer the God the remains of the animal that can't be eaten, and eat the edible parts for their gods.
Usually goats and sheep were sacrificed, but the sacrifice of an ox was the most noble, expecially if it was a bull. Any number of animals could be sacrificed at once fo a spiritual reason, and the more animals sacrificed the greater the reason usually was. The animals were killed by being hit with an object such as a stone, and could also be killed by the use of a knife on the neck of an animal. The animal was killed on an alter that were built on grounds that were made sacred. These alters were either made of stone or were marked with ashes, an had symbolic fies burning on the top of the alter. The people who killed the animal were the owners of the animal, and required help from neighbors to hold the ritual. Then after the animal was butchered and the meat cooked the neighbors and the person/family would dine on the meat, not leaving any left.

Chapter 24 Vocab

1. lingua - language
2. farox - fierce
3. fidelis - faith
4. gemenus -
5. sapiens - fatherland
6. ultimus - ultimate, final
7. de hinc - of that
8. hic - this
9. it , iunt -
10. credo, credare - to credit
11. yacheo -
12. nego -
13. nesquio -
14. nuntio -
15. patefacio - to have done
16. puto -
17. spero -
18. suscipio -
19. lex - king with an l in front
20. lux - wolf
21. mensa -
22. nox -
23. somnus -
24. urbanum - urban
25. invitio - to invite

Caesar Translation

Caesar, sent the cavalry ahead, and took the lead of the six; behind them he placed all the geat of his army; when the cavalry crossed the river, they battled with the enemy's cavalry. They retreated back into the forest to their own and then back out of the forest to attack us. Our cavalry dared only to follow them to the edge of the forest. At the time, as soon as the six arrived, they put down their weapons and started to strengthen the camp. As soon as our army's equipment was seen by those hiding in the forest, they rushed forth with all their forces and attacked our cavalry. Because after the cavalry was easily driven back, with incredible speed they ran towards the river. Thus at the same time they were seen near the woods, in the river and among our troops. With the same haste they ran towards our camp and those who had been busy working.
Caesar had to do everything at once; he had to raise the flag, sound the trumpet, which ordered them to take arms;he had to recall the soldiers from their tasks; prepare the battle line. For a short time he delayed the attacks and the arrival of the enemy. Therefore, because of the proximity and speed of the enemy, the commanders did not wait for Caesar's orders, but did what they could on their own.

Unit 24 Test

fabula - tale
Imperator - commander in chief, emperor
imperium - the ability to command
perfugium, perfugii- refuge
serva, servae - female slave
solacium, solacii -
vulnus - wound
accipio - to take for ones self
excipio - to take
recipio - to take again

Bonus: redio, redire, reci, ricum -
Bonus 2: postea is

Chapter 23 Participles Chart

Watching the Orator at Work Translation

Now rise great speaker, to plead a case: every place in seat is occupied; the raised platform for the magistrate is full; every judge desiring to hear the word calls for silence . All eyes turn to this. Then many applauses, many praise. The speaker touches and hears the soul. Where to desire pity or to go to move fear, fear or pity to suppress to scare or they weep.
From the speaker, also if you sit and are not attentive to hear, but to catch sight of one look and to pass by, often judges are able to. You see the judge yawn, to speak with others, not never also to wander, to find out the time, the speaker neglects to speak by word. This speaker indeed is without cause, who is moved by the strong soul the judge speech. If however the judge is raised up by seeing, who concerning thing to teach to see or to suspend to hold, just as a song to some place bird, to recognize the sign true speaker and to work oratorical good to carry on.

Pig Latin Correlation to Latin

Pig Latin is a code type of language that consists of a simple changing of English words. In pig latin, the beginning consonant of a word is moved to the end of the sentence to form a syllable starting with th consonate and ending with "ay." so the pig latin translation of "Jim threw the ball" is "Imjay hrewtay hetay allbay." I was curious to find why it was called pig latin, but found out that the latin idead is just a misnomer; it is just a way to make pig latin further sound like a strange and foreign language. It really has no correlation with Latin.

Monty Python's Life of Bryan

In the Monty Python Movie "Life of Bryan", Brian is a guy who is born at the exact same time as Jesus is, and is mistaken for Jesus at the beginning of the movie. The movie follows him through his life, and after seeing Jesus' sermon on the mount he joins a group called the People's Front of Judea. He is made to sprawl graffiti on the wall of the governor's palace, and as he finishes a palace centurion stops and sees what he is doing. Disusted by the graffiti, the palace centurion makes Brian realize that he has misused latin grammer in his graffiti, saying "Romanes eunt domus", or "the people called 'Romanes' they go the house". The centruion understands that he meant to say "Romani ite domum" or "Romans, go home", and makes him write the write gramatical sentence 100 times. Funny stuff.

Latin in Harry Potter

I found out in this article that J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, has used latin words as spell names. Here is a quote fom the article:

Younger students get a mouthful of Latin when they read the popular Harry Potter books. "Expelliarmus," a recurring spell that disarms an opponent, is Latin for "disarm."

Some people say that this is a good effort on her part to revive latin, but lets face it, latin is dead. This only goes to show that J.K. Rowling is not very original when she thinks of spell names.
I got the article from http://archives.cnn.com/2002/EDUCATION/10/14/schools.latin.ap/index.html

Various Latin Insults

I just compiled a bunch of random insults and sayings that can be said in Latin. Here they are:

Vescere bracis meis - Eat my shorts
Obesus porcus - Fat pig
Te odeo, interfice te cum cochleare - I hate you. Kill yourself with a spoon.
Fac ut vivas. - Get a life.
Labra lege - Read my lips
Qualem blennum! - What a doofus!
Radix lecti - Couch potato
Stultus est sicut stultus facit - Stupid is as stupid does
Faciem durum cacantis habes - You have the face of a man with severe constipation
Balaenae nobis conservandae sunt - Save the whales

Chapter 23 Vocab Quiz

1.) arx, arcis - citadel
2.) echus eki - leader
3.) insula, insulae - island
4.) miles, militis - soldier
5.) secerdos, secerdotis - priest
6.) quisquis, quidquid - whoever
7.) unquam - ever
8.) gaudeo, gaudere - to be glad
9.) peto, petare - to seek
10.) opprimo, opprimere - to supress
11.) peverto – to press

Laocoon Speaks Out Against the Trojan Horse

Oppressed by long war and by turning away the gods, the Greek leaders, now after ten years, have made a great wooden horse with the skill of Minerva. They filled up the uterum(?) with many soldiers, they left the horse on the coast, and they sailed over the nearby island. Trojans see no troops nor ships; all of the Trojans are glad; they opened the gates. However, the Trojans are doubtful about the horse. Some desire it to be lead into the city, others speak it as a Greek plot. Running from the stronghold, Laocoon, a Trojan priest, said these words: "O miserable citizens, you are not sane! What are you thinking? You don't understand the Greeks and their plots? Either you will find in that horse many harsh soldiers, or the horse is a war machine, made against us, if going to come to the city, going to spy on our houses and people. Or something is hidden. Do not trust on the horse, Trojans: whatever it is, I fear the Greeks and also the carrying gifts!" He leaves, and he throwns a strong spear with his left hand of great power into the uterum(?) of the horse; it stood still, trembling.

10/14 Blog Post: A Modern Perspective of Latin

I could easily find a definition of Latin from any source online that was useful, suc as Britannica or onlinedictionary.com. Maybe even Wikipedia could give a just definition on what Latin is, but I dont know. For this blog, I wanted to uncover a more modern perspective on how people define Latin. In order to do this, I went to urbandictionary.com, a very liable source for just this.

Urbandictionary.com is a site that you can write a definition for any word that you can possily think of, and it will be rated by the viewers o the website with thumbs up and thumbs down. It is extremely biased, and generates random words that nobody will ever go to and which are not real words/terms, such as a "Skeletor" being defined as Jennifer Lopez's husband, Anthony. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skeletor)

When I looked up Latin on Urbandictionary, the best definitions chosen by viewers were not random, but made sence. A definition usd for Latin called Latin the starter of Romance Languages, and noted on it modern day that it is used in special Catholic Masses and pretty much nothing else. Other definitions define latin as a useless language to take in High school, not making you any better with word usage and understanding te english longuage later on in college. One user named Jackie defined latin as "a horrible language" (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?page=1&term=latin). But mostly all of the definitions for latin have been givel a large amount of thumbs down, so Ill take for word that Latin is a good language.

Blog Post: 10/14 "Latin" America?

So I have been having alot of trouble trying to find some new juicy info to put on my blog that has some correation with latin or at least my Latin class, but I have been pretty much sunk. I've tried to put "Latin" in google to find something, but nothing comes up. When I put in "Latin News" it comes up with links to Latin American news stations and such. From that, I have decided to do this blog post on why Latin America is called Latin America.

It seems odd that it would be called Latin America, being that there is no country in the vincinity that considers a language commonly used there to be Latin. In fact, when the European powers came to Latin America to do what they did, none of them spoke Latin to each other.

The real reason that Latin America is called Latin America is because all the countries that are in Latin America speak diferent sorts of Romance Languages. Brazilians speak Portuguse, Columbians speak Spanish, and so on. Latin America is mainly made up of Portuguese and Spanish speakers because they were the ones who colonized Latin America more than other countries. Romance languages obiously originate from Latin, so that is precisely why Latin America is called Latin America.

Chapter 21 Paradigms

1. Danger is never overcome without danger.
2. Novius is my neighbor and I can touch him from my window with my right hand.
3. Do you judges not order this man to be carried away and lead in chains by death?
4. Rome itself is beng destroyed by it's own people and civil wars are wearing out another era.
5. But friendship is cast from any locale and is never evil or untimely; for it contans many benefits.
6. Future events cannot be determined.
7. In the beginning the world itself was created for Gods and men and in those things that pleasure men.
8. Agriculture is praised by Xenophon entirely in that book titled "Economics."
9. The common folk wish to be fooled.
10. Where are knowledge and wisdom found.
11. Truth is often emphasized too much; it never is distinguished.

Chapter 21

1. tengo - to touch
2. scio - to know
3. relinquo - to abandon
4. rapio - to seize, take, capture
5. laboro - to labor
6. iuveo - to command
7. contineo - to contain
8. iterum - again
9. atque - and
10. asper - rough, harsh
Bonus : the common people
Bonus 2 : ?

Chapter 20 Test

fructus
fructi
fructum
fructo
fructi

fructus
fructuum
fructibus
fructus
fructibus

cornu
cornus
cornu
cornu
cornu

cornua
cornuum
cornibus
cornua
cornibus


Hercules Last Paragraph:

Hercules was free before he and another worked the deed. What however reward is to be given? None. What error is in the labor's fruit? Glory and memory will be perpetual in poetic verse.

S.A.:

5.) Friendship can be shut out by no place; never ultimately is without either; many benefits are to keep.

8.)The abundance of Xenophon's agriculture was said i the book which was entitled "Oeconomicus."

38 Latin Stories Translation: The Judgement of Paris

Goddess Discordia, who alone was not called to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, was moved by anger. So she has created in the palace the golden apple of the gods, in which to write this message :"FOR THE FAIREST." Whom ought the apple be given to? Juno or Venus of Minerva? Even Jupitor himself was scared to judge. And thus Paris, son of the Trojan King, that came for the 3 goddesses.
"Oh dear young man," they said, "What is your opinion on who is the fairest?" From which you chose a great gift will be given to you." Who did Paris choose? What gift will the judgor's mind be moved by? Juno can make him a king, Minerva can make him a leader. But Venus can however give him Helen, the fairist of all the women.
Paris is overcome by love and gives the golden apple to Venus. And therefore (if the rumor of the deed is certain) Helen was captured and brought to a new location, Troy. Because of the woman which war was being conducted?