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Sam Teaches Latin and Ancient Greek
@samteacheslatin.bsky.social
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I teach Latin at a prep school in Connecticut and Greek to my brother on the internet. He/Him/His most of the time.
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Google AI studio didn't have to attack me like this
"Analyzing the User's Anxiety"
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
samteacheslatin.bsky.social
Huh I'd always just naively believed Bradley's Arnold.....
May 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
samteacheslatin.bsky.social
Are there Latin novellas that make substantial use of -que? Alarmed by this statistic from @kballestrini.bsky.social (based on the selection he uses) and the general que-lessness of my materials this year.
May 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
samteacheslatin.bsky.social
New -pedia just dropped
fulcipedia, ae, f. fulcio-pes, propfoot, of a drunken woman, who needs support,
November 23, 2024 at 7:15 PM
samteacheslatin.bsky.social
My fascination with the first aphorism of Hippocrates continues to intensify. Today I typed it up in monospace to better count characters.
ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή.
November 14, 2024 at 8:13 PM
samteacheslatin.bsky.social
Between Latin teacher groups & harmonica groups I've been popping over to Facebook much more often lately, and the algo has figured out that if it shows me a Calvin & Hobbes strip, I will read it. At any rate tonight it reminded me of this important Sappho/Catullus 31/51 comparandum.
January 15, 2024 at 6:37 AM
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Aeneid 1.93: Aeneas "tendens ad sidera palmas"

Aeneid 1.124-5: "procella. . .fluctusque ad sidera tollit"

Aeneas:
Picture of a waterbender with his arms raised and a wave rising behind him.
January 1, 2024 at 10:05 PM