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Maximē mihi placet vidēre apud Quintiliānum dē genere ambiguitātis quae mē saepe vexat: “per collocātiōnem, ubi dubium est, quid quō referrī oporteat, ac frequentissimē, cum quidem medium est, cum utrimque possit trahī” (Inst. VI.9)
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Commentārium ēlectōrum recentis biduī legens locum quem mihi super vīrēs invēnī: sigmaticī futūrī verba atque aliās rēs grammaticās mihi ignōtās habet. Quod nōn omnīnō displicet prasertim quia hīs diēbus nōn saepe accidit.
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Herī vesperī cēnāvī cum amīcō linguae Latīnae perītō. Duās vel trēs hõrās collocũtī sumus, omnīnō Latīnē. Jūcundum fuit.
August 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The error that gave me the most trouble today was in Quintilian book 5: “…, cum pardem ējēcissent”. I think it’s “patrem”, but Perseus says “pardem” is an adverb meaning “equal”, and the Latin Library does not appear to have this section in it at all.
June 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I’ve been thinking about how future paleographers will talk about OCR: “The misspelling of rein for rem suggests this comes from a text that was originally digitized in the 1990s…”
June 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Ōrātiō apud Quintillium quae mihi placet: Ut certa manus ūnō tēlō potest esse contenta, incerta plūra spargendā sunt, ut sit et fortūnātē locus.
May 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’ve long known the English word “imprimatur”, but today is the day I realized it comes directly from Latin.
March 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I figured out something at work this week, and I want to write about it. So here’s a data science thread about numeric and categorical variables (and variables that are a little bit of both).
February 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“nam quid aliud agimus docendõ eōs, quam nē semper docendī sint?” Quintilian, Institūtiōnēs ōrātōriae, liber II
January 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Tandem dē palaeographiā latīnā legō. Placet.
December 23, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Quoddam mihi tulit tabellārius.
December 20, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Officīna mea ūnā cēnāvimus. Jũcundissimum erat.
December 17, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Herī ad tonsōrem iī. Nunc, ut anglicē dīcitur, aurēs dēmissae sunt.
December 16, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Hodiē ad medicum dentium iī. Meā sententiā, bonum est paululum dolōtis illīc sentīre, quia posteā medicāmentum ad ōrem tapefaciendum citius ēvānescet.
December 13, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Nōn tam senex sum ut dē morbīs loquī velim, sed frāter hodiē māne apud chīrurgum adiit.
December 13, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Hodiē mātūrius ad cubitum ībō.
December 12, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Aulum Gellium vōbīs commendāvī ut exemplum dē librōs Latīnē loquendī. Exegesis Bibliae ā Augustīnō quoque mihi vidētur bonum exemplum.
December 11, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Hodiē mihi opus est facere quoddam quod nōlō nec volō dīcere quid sit.
December 10, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Nōn eōdem modō dē librīs Anglicīs Latīnīsque cum amīcīs colloquar. Quā dē causā multum spatium exempla Latīna quaerō ubi librī tractantur sīcut librōs Anglicōs tractō. Nunc videō Aulum Gellium tālī modō de auctōribus scrībere. Gaudeo apud eum legere.
December 9, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Librum (anglicum) dē Johanna, puellā Aurēliānensī. Valdē placet. Fertur ejus jūdicium inter haereticās Latīnē scrībī. Quod in animō habeō ut legam, sed 500 pāginās longa est.
December 8, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Lex Graecīs dē accentibus syllabārum difficilis mihi est intellegere. Difficilior est cum Quintiliānus eam dēscrībit Latīnē.
December 7, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Herī cum domī revēnī, valdē fessus eram statimque in somniō cecidī neque hīc scrīpsī. Decem hōrās dormīvī. Fortasse hodiē bis hīc scrībēbō.
December 6, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Legō apud Quintiliānum, necopīnans quantā dē paedagōgiā scrīpsit. Fortasse est lex quaedam: quō longius Latīnē loqueris cum aliīs, eō certius mentiō paedagōgiae facta est.
December 5, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Frāter, in animō habēns sē fingere insigne familiae, modo mihi tēlephōnat rogatque quōmodō Latīnē dīcatur “It’s going to be OK” (quod saepe līberīs suīs omnibusque dīcit). Eī dīcō “Omnia bene succēdent” vel “Bene succēdet”. Vidēbō quid acciderit.
December 4, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Sī nōn jam patet, novam rēgulam sequor: nullus diēs sine līneā Latīnā. Hodiē ad officīnam reveniō. Quā dē causā fortasse tantum taediōsa scrībere habēbō.
December 2, 2024 at 10:54 PM