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.