Every one of my classes asked if I had done it yet lol

They say that first-foot spondees are "fairly rare" (p. 107 of the CED), but they're 40% of the verses in the Aeneid

I’m not sure. I’m compiling a list of grievances—oops, I mean questions, semper hic erro—to ask on the AP Latin forum on CB’s website, and this is one of them

I've used this, it cites Broughton frequently and is very handy!

romanrepublic.ac.uk

Of course, then they have to come back the next day for Paper 2, which is when we do the set passages. But Paper 1 is more than sufficient to show their Latin chops. They have access to a paper dictionary, but if I had my druthers I would do a word list like AP (but not 1,000 words, geez)

I feel you'd like IB HL Paper 1:

Two unseen passages—students pick verse+prose or prose+verse

1st: ~130 words. 5 FRQs for comprehension, translate the end

2nd: ~65 words on a related topic, with a summary in English. 1 question comparing the two passages, 1 question analyzing the 2nd passage only

When I was in 7th grade I remember writing a poem about a man named Wangall who dived in the Bermuda Triangle. His mind was in a tangle, as I recall

Not that I’m all that aged, but it’s very weird to me that the mayor-elect of New York City was in high school at the same time I was, and not only that, he’d have been a freshman when I was a senior

Litotes is apparently kryptonite to these AI things

Never knew you were in Gine Iggle country!

I can't tell whether Cicero is arguing in favor of the Bengals' acquisition of Joe Flacco from the Browns in exchange for a 2026 draft pick, or whether Joe Flacco committed extortion while serving as a magistrate in Asia Minor

What's funny is the top 5 search results are correct. But the Google AI hand does not know what the Google Search hand is doing, apparently

Funnily enough, our rabbi recently told us that when he first heard it he thought it was a Jewish song

The French version is great for things like this, one time they had an American-themed episode and the theme for the “classique revisitée” was brownies. And I know they’re supposed to put their own spin on it, but there were lots of fundamental misunderstandings of what a brownie is