Monday, June 8, 2009
Final Exam Part V.i
Horace: I agree with you that you were original, but I'd prefer it if the world didn't think that Latin writers were not intelligent enough to express their ideas without foul language. I chose a more subtle form of sarcasm, in which i expressed my dislike of select people without being completely obvious
Jerome: While I agree that the language has its own spirit, I also think that it can be a tool to unify different people. I used the language to make a standard version of the Bible that could be more easily translated into other languages. My only regret is that some of the meaning of the Hebrew words were lost.
Final Exam Part IV
To whom shall I give this extraordinary little book that has been polished by a dry pumice stone to? You, Cornelius: for you are in the habit of deeming my work as frivolous, when you were the only one of the Italians to unfold the history of the tribes into three chronicles, and you were taught by Jupiter. Therefore take this small book that by the maiden patron may withstand more than one generation.
Final Exam Part III
2. Chartis- instrument
3. doctis- manner
4. laboriosis- manner
5. saeclo- absolute
6. quicum- manner
7. sinu- place
8. desiderio- manner
9. nitenti- manner
10.
Final Exam Part II
2. qui puriter - which is pure
3. quod quisque minxit- what water which
4. quo iste- that which
5. quicum ludere- with which she plays
6. quem in sinu tenere- whom she holds in her lap
7. quam puella- which girl
8. qui nunc- that now
9. quae omnia- all of which
10. quem uidetis- that to see
Final Exam Part I
1. tollere- infinitive, to give out
2. iuvat- 3rd person singular pres. act. ind. iuvare
3. secet- 3rd person singular pres. act. ind. secere- meaning to sail
3. laudat- 3.S.pres.act.ind. laudare meaning to praise
4. Manet- 3.S. pres.act.ind. manere
5. miscent- 3.P. pres.act. ind. miscere- to grieve
6. secernunt- 3.P. pres.act.ind. secernere- to sever
7. tendere- infinitive-
8. spernit-3.S. perf. act. ind. spernere
9. Est- 3. S. pres. act. ind. esse- to be
10. demere- infinitive
Horace 1.37
1. parabat- 3.S.fut.act.ind. parare- to take from
2. sperare- infinitive
3. est- 3.S. pres.act.ind. esse- to be
4. redegit- 3.S. perf.act.ind. redegere
5. daret- 3.S. pres.act.ind. dare- to give
6. scilicet- 3.S. pres. act. ind. scilicere
7. expavit- 3. S. perf. act. ind. expavere
8. superbo- 1.S. fut.act.ind.superare- to be above
9. tractare- infinitive
10. reparavit- 3.S.pres. act.ind. reparare- to repair
Horace 3.30
1. vitabit- 3.S. fut.act.ind. vitare- to live
2. possit- 3. S. pres.act.ind. Posse- to be able to
3. dirvere- infinitive
4. scandet- 3. S. pres.act.ind. scandere- to scan
5. obstrepit- 3.S. pres.act.ind. obstrepere
6. regnavit- 3. S. pluperd.act.ind. Regnare
7. meritis- 2.P. Pres.act.ind. Meritere- to merit
8. laude- 1. S. pres.pass. ind. laudare- to praise
9. aere- infinitive
10. lauro- 1.S. pres. act. ind. laurare
Catullus 10
1. est- 3.S. pres.act.ind. esse- to be
2. Venimus- 1.P. pres.act.ind. venere
3. incidere- infinitive
4. esse - infinitive- to be
5. dicitur- 3.S. pres. pass. ind. dicere- to speak
6. parare- infinitive
7. collocare- infinitive
8. posset- 3.S.Pres.act.ind. posse- to be able to
9. licet- 3.S. pres.act.ind. licere
10. paravit- 3.S.pluperf. act.ind. - parare
Catullus 39
1. habet- 3.S.pres.act.ind. habere- to have
2. est - 3.S. pres.act.ind. esse- to be
3. excitat- 3.S.pres.act.ind. excitare- to be excited
4. renidet- 3.S.pres.act.ind.- renidere
5. lugetur- 3.S. pres. pass. ind. lugete
6. agit- 3.S.pres.pass.ind. agere
7. lubet- 3.S. pres. act. ind. lubere
8. renidere- infinitive
9. defricare - infinitive
10. praedicet- 3.S.pres.act.ind. praedicere
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Air France update
It is still as mystery as to how the plane has not been found yet, but messages sent immediately preceding the crash said that the plane was breaking apart. Navies are looking for the "black box" that will send a signal as to the planes location. However, the black box's signal only reaches about a three mile radius, and it is a vast area of ocean to search.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Speeding Crackdown
Monday, June 1, 2009
Bloggerbot
and they can even make you smarter. Introducing the brainbot. The central cylinder of each Brainbot houses a computer that contains a storehouse of information equalling many large libraries, and instruments for recording "surface thoughts". Billions of these nanobots are in communication with one another, and with the brain cells, creating a secondary brain. I, personally, do not believe that it will ever be possible to download a "conscious" diesmbodied mind into a computer. However, it will be possible to place a robotic brain into a human skull, composed of billions of microscopic nanobots. This would give each human being two brains; an electro-chemical wet-brain, and a dry, purely electronic digital brain. When the two brains interact, a third brain may emerge with qualities for which we can only speculate.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Forum of Augustus
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
practice test
1
1. dono- first person singular, present active indicative from donare meaning "to give"
2. solebas- second person singular, imperfect active indicative from solere meaning "to be in the habit of"
3. habe- second person singular, present active imperative from habere meaning to have
4. maneat- third person singular, present active subjunctive from manere meaning "to remain"
5. es- second person singular, present active indicative from esse meaning "to be"
2
1. solet- third person singular, present active indicative from solere meaning "to be in the habit of"http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4895421839209620944
2. lubet- third person singular, present active indicative from lubere meaning "it pleases"
3. credo- first person singular, present active indicative from credere meaning "to trust"
4. acquiescat- third person singular, present active subjunctive from acquiescere meaning "to lie with"
5. possem- first person singular, imperfect active subjunctive from posse meaning "to be able"
3
1. est- third person singular, present active indicative from esse meaning "to be"
2. amabat- third person singular, imperfect active indicative from amare meaning "to love"
3. erat- third person singular, imperfect active indicative from esse meaning "to be"
4. norat- third person singular, pluperfect active indicative from noscere meaning "to get to know"
5. movebat- third person singular, imperfect active indicative from movere meaning "to move"
5
1. vivamus- first person plural, present active subjunctive from vivere meaning "to be alive"
2. amemus- first person plural, present active subjunctive from amare meaning "to love"
3. aestimemus- first person plural, present active subjunctive from aestimare meaning "to value"
4. possunt- third person plural, present active indicative from posse meaning "to be able to"
5. sciat- third person singular, present active subjunctive from sciere meaning "to understand"
64
1. dicuntur- third person plural, present passive indicative from dicere meaning "to say"
2.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
ablative
regibus- of royalty- absolute
curriculo- in a small chariot- manner
fervidis - burning- manner
evitata- to avoid- means
palmaque- with palms- manner
turba- means
tergeminis- manner
honoribus- manner
horreo-place
sarculum- instrument
Attalicus- place
conditionibus- manner
trabe- means
Cypria- place
Icariis-place
fluctibus- manner
solido- separation
die- time
viridi- means
arbuto- place
lene- means
lituo- accompaniment
matribus- accompaniment
detestata- time
Iove- personal agent
catulis- means
fidelibus- means
Monday, May 18, 2009
review test
Catullus 1
Dono- present active indicative first person singular
Donare to give
Solebas – 2 person singular imperfect active indicative
Solere- to be in the habit of
Putare- present active infinitive 1st person ; to think
Esse- 3rd person present active infinitive, to be
Explicare- present active infinitive, to unfold
Habe- present active imperative second person singular- habere- to have
Maneat- present active subjunctive third person singular- manere- to remain
Catullus 2
Ludere- present active infinitive- to play
Tenere- present active infinitive- to hold
Dare- present active infinitive- to give
Solet- present active indicative- third person singular- solere- to be in the habit of
Incitare- present active infinitive- to enrage
Lubet- present active indicative third person singular- lubere- it pleases
Iocari- present active infinitive- to jest
Credo- present active indicative first person singular- credere- to trust
Acquiescet- future active indicative third person singular- acquiescere- to lie with
Ludere- present active infinitive- to play
Possem- imperfect active subjunctive first person singular- posse- to be able
Leuare- present active infinitive to lift
Est- present active indicative third person singular- esse to be
Ferunt- present active indicative third person plural- ferre- to bring
Catullus 3
Lugete- present active imperative second person- lugere- to mourn
Veneres- present active sunjunctive second person singular- venerare- to adore
Est- present active indicative third person singular- esse- to be
Amabat- imperfect active indicative third person singular- amare- to love
Erat- imperfect active indicative third person singular- esse to be
Noverat- pluperfect active indicative third person singular- noscere- to get to know
Mouebat- imperfect active indicative third person singular- movere- to move
Pipiabat- imperfect active indicative third person singular- pipiare- to chirp
Negant- present active indicative third person plural- negare- to deny
Sit- present active subjunctive third person singular- esse- to be
Devoratis- present active indicative second person plural- devorare- to devour
Ruebent- future active indicative third person plural- rudere-to roar
Catullus 5
Vivamus- present active subjunctive first person plural- vivare- to live
Amemus- present active subjunctive first person plural- amare- to love
Aestimemus- present active subjunctive first person plural- aestimere- to estimate
Occidere- present active infinitive – to fall
Redire- present active infinitive- to return
Possunt- present active indicative third person plural- posse- to be able to
Occidit- present active indicative third person singular- occidere- to fall
Est- present active indicative third person singular- esse- to be
Da- present active imperative second person singular- dare- to give
Fecerimus- perfect active subjunctive first person plural- facere- to make
Conturbabimus- future active indicative first person- conturbare- to confuse
Sciamus- present active subjunctive third person plural- scire- to know
Invidere- present active infinitive- to find
Possit- present active indicative third person singular- posse- to be able to
Sciat- present active subjunctive third person singular- scire- to know
2. Translate: Horace 1.11
May you not worry about what the gods give to me, or give to you
nor be intimidated, Leuconoe, of the Babylonians numbers.
over many winters for triburt Jupiter ultimate,
not that the stone has weakened the sea
Tyrrhenum, wisdom,
for jealous time is fleeting
Seize the day, have little trust in the future
3. Translate: Job 1
In the land of Uz there lived a man named Job and he was a simple and righteous fearing God and avoiding evil and born unto him were seven sons and three girls.
And in his possession were seven thousand sheep and three thousands camels
Likewise, 500 yoke of oxen and 500 female asses and a exceedingly large family and this man is greater than any of the men in all the east
And he walked with his sons and they made a feast throughout their home, each one his own day, and his men sent and summoned three of his sisters to put away the banquet and drink when they at any time they went over around the day of the banquet they were sent by Job and sanctified that who they ambushed at dawn he offered burnt sacrifices even though he said that his sons were sinners burned the sacrifice for every sin and they indeed, truly my sons have sinned and they praise God with their hearts thus they make Job (all day) but with the day the sons came God appeared before them
and on that particular day the sons of God were sent to appear before God and with them came Satan
Saturday, May 16, 2009
galileo
Monday, May 11, 2009
II. Lament for a Sparrow
To Cornelius
Friday, May 8, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Love Letter
A friend of mine consoled a letter, you’re my beloved recently you’ve been able to bring me strength. Out of the heading I am immediately able to look upon your dear face myself, I read it so passionately and allow the dear author himself to surround me, to which it ruins my words and causes me to dance as his likeness is restored. They have been remembered; these letters speak every poison and are full of wormwood.
My complete reverence is in this letter in which in the beginning it promises my love to you, while one may see clearly in comparison your mistakes are not his or that he considered them little; Where indeed the teachers first set out to persecute you, then to your body they injured in the highest betrayal, to your fellow students likewise clearly Alberici, Remensis and Lotulfi Lumbardi be cursed and hated and vexed excessively and have their names etched into columns. Which indeed they suggest that you were condemned to spend time in jail for your theology. Indeed you add to your wrongdoings from your abbot and brother, I withdrawal your heavy pain and scandal from naming your oracle in the name of Paracliti. Then you end this sad story and still the cruel persecutions against you continue of course at the hands of the monks and accomplished tyrants that you call sons.
And then no one will be able to even read or even hear the value of this with dry eyes, this great pain is renewed greatly when they carefully express your pain and they increase to this point in your increasing danger you bring; so we all are forced to make ready for the despair of your life, and wait every day for the rumors of your death from and with trembling and throbbing hearts we wait. Therefore we pray to Christ who thus far protects you, to what extent the little maid-servant herself by your thick letter about your dignified shipwrecks, but not one, likewise one remains, you have shared you sorrow with us.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
A friend of mine consoled a letter, you’re my beloved recently you’ve been able to bring me strength. Which out of myself I am able to admire your dear forehead
It's a love story, baby just say yes
Monday, May 4, 2009
Fig Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was born January 4, 1643 in England. He was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed the theory that a prism decomposes white light into many colors which form the visible spectrum or a rainbow. He developed an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. He developed the differential and integral calculus alongside Gottfried Leibniz. He demonstrated the generalized binomial theorem, developed the so-called "Newton's method" for approximating the zeroes of a function, and contributed to the study of power series.
He wrote the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687. In this book, Newton lays the groundwork for most of classical mechanics through developing the three laws of motion, his explanation of gravity, and he showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion. He removed the last doubts of heliocentrism.
Newton was very religious, and unorthodox. He produced more work on Biblical hermeneutics than the natural science he is remembered for today.
He is remembered today as the being the most influential scientist on the history of science through the 2005 survey of scientists in Britain's Royal Society.
He died March 31, 1727.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Carmina Burana: 7
o harden, whenever disorderly
they drink all that they are permitted at the end,
they drink enough to kill their minds
Thus, they peck at all of us people
and so they are needy.
At whatever price they are pecking us, they have been restrained
and they have not written with justice.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Carmina Burana
they do not worry, anyone that is in the country
but speeds up according to the game
and the wise exert themselves
anyone acts in the tavern
where coin is a bartender
this is need, to complain,
and the locals here
they are able to play, they are able to drink,
they are able to live as equals
but in game
sed in ludo qui morantur,
ex his quidam denudantur,
quidam ibi vestiuntur,
quidam saccis induuntur.
Ibi nullus timet mortem,
sed pro Baccho mittunt sortem.
Primo pro nummata vini,
ex hac bibunt libertini,
semel bibunt pro captivis,
post hec binbunt ter pro vivis,
quater pro Christianis cunctis,
quinquies pro fidelibus defunctis,
sexies pro sororibus vanis,
septies pro militibus silvanis.
Octies pro fratribus perversis,
novies pro monachis dispersis,
decies pro navigantibus,
undecies pro discordantibus,
duodecies pro penitentibus,
tredecies pro iter agentibus.
Tam pro papa quam pro rege
bibunt omnes sine lege.
Bibit hera, bibit herus,
bibit miles, bibit clerus,
bibit ille, bibit illa,
bibit servus cum ancilla,
bibit velox, bibit piger,
bibit albus, bibit niger,
bibit constans, bibit vagus,
bibit rudis, bibit magus.
Bibit pauper et egrotus,
bibit exul et ignotus,
bibit puer, bibit canus,
bibit presul et decanus,
bibit soror, bibit frater,
bibit anus, bibit mater,
bibit ista, bibit ille,
bibunt centum, bibunt mille.
Parum centum sex nummate
so durant, ubi immoderate
bibunt omnes sine meta,
quamvis bibant mente leta.
Sic nos rodunt omnes gentes
et sic erimus egentes.
Qui nos rodunt, confundantur
et cum iustis non scribantur.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
relative clauses
quia post biduum Pascha fiet
qui dicebatur Caiphas
Quid molesti estis mulieri?
qui dicebatur Iudas Iscariotes
Quid vultis mihi dare
Qui intingit mecum manum in paropside, hic me tradet.
Filius quidem hominis vadit
er quem Filius hominis traditur!
qui tradidit eum
qui pro multis effunditur in remissionem peccatorum.
quod dicitur Gethsemani.
qui me tradit
Qui autem tradidit eum
ad quod venisti
qui acceperint gladium
An putas quia non possum rogare Patrem meum
quam duodecim legiones angelorum
Quomodo ergo implebuntur
quia sic oportet fieri
Quid isti adversum te testificantur?
Quid adhuc egemus testibus?
Quid vobis videtur?
Quis est,
qui te percussit?
"Nescio quid dicis!".
qui erant ibi
qui stabant
27
qui eum tradidit,
quod damnatus esset
Quid ad nos?
quia pretium sanguinis est
quod dictum
quem appretiaverunt a filiis Israel,
quem voluissent
qui dicebatur Barabbas
quem vultis dimittam vobis
qui dicitur Christus
ciebat enim quod per invidiam
Quem vultis vobis de duobus dimittam?
Quid igitur faciam de Iesu,
qui dicitur Christus?"
Quid enim mali fecit?
qui dicitur Golgotha,
quod est Calvariae locus,
Postquam autem crucifixerunt eum
Qui destruis templum et in triduo illud reaedificas,
quid dereliquisti me?
Quidam autem
qui dormierant
qui cum eo erant custodientes Iesum
quae secutae erant Iesum
inter quas erat
qui et ipse discipulus erat Iesu.
quod exciderat in petra,
quae est post Parascevem
28
Quae cum abiissent,
ecce quidam de custodia venerunt
quae facta fuerant.
quaecumque mandavi vobis.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
roman boots
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
terms
Ecphrasis
lines 50-54
"haec uestis priscis hominum uariata figuris heroum mira uirtutes indicat arte. namque fluentisono prospectans litore Diae, Thesea cedentem celeri cum classe tuetur indomitos in corde gerens Ariadna furores, necdum etiam sese quae uisit uisere credit, utpote fallaci quae tum primum excita somno desertam in sola miseram se cernat harena. "
catalogue
lines 35-37
"deseritur Cieros, linquunt Pthiotica Tempe Crannonisque domos ac moenia Larisaea, Pharsalum coeunt, Pharsalia tecta frequentant. "
Dimunitive
lines 131
"frigidulos udo singultus ore cientem:"
epic simile
lines 105-11
"promittens tacito succepit uota labello. nam uelut in summo quatientem brachia Tauro quercum aut conigeram sudanti cortice pinum indomitus turbo contorquens flamine robur, eruit (illa procul radicitus exturbata prona cadit, late quaeuis cumque obuia frangens,) "
Golden Line
lines 59
"irrita uentosae linquens promissa procellae."
Hypermetry
line 298
"inde pater diuum sancta cum coniuge natisque"
Metonymy
line 11
"illa rudem cursu prima imbuit Amphitriten;"
Periphrasis
line 77
"Androgeoneae poenas exsoluere caedis"
Personification
line 78
"fors etiam nostris inuidit questibus auris"
synizesis
line 336
"qualis adest Thetidi, qualis concordia Peleo. "
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Take Home Test 64
Once pine trees sprung from Pelion's vortex
They say that they float through the clear, surging waves of Neptune
Through Phasidos river and the country Aeeteos,
When the chosen youth, the strongest of the adult population,
They choose the golden Colchis turn away skin
When the chosen young man, the strongest of Argive adult population,
Desiring to go away from the Colchis golden fleece
They dared to sail swiftly over salt seas with ships
One the flat, blue salt water with wooden oars
For the goddess who holds the fortresses of the city tops
She made a light wind for the flying chariot
Binding the bent wood into the framework
TheAmphitriten's first rough voyage
she sailed with her beak over the windy sea
and the waves were tortured by the oars and grew white with foam
they looked up from the foaming whirlpool of waves
and the Nereids admired the strange thing
the mortal eyes saw by no other light than the sea
with their eyes the naked nymphs
Then Pelius is said to have caught the fire of love with Thetis
Thetis did not look down upon human marriage
then the father himself knew that pelius must be married to thetis
oh heroes, you were born in the happiest of ages
of your good mothers, hail!
you, i often address you in song
and you are greatly blessed with a lucky marriage (pine) torch
and Oceanus, who circles the world with sea?
now when the awaited day was fulfilled
Lines 60-85
Who away from the weedy, gloomy darling of Minos,
like a marble figure of a bacchanical, look forward, alas
she looks forward and the waves of torment swell
nor does she keep the delicate yellow hair restrained with a headpiece
nor veiling her breast with a cloack
nor concealing her milky- white bosom with a girdle
all of whom slipped off with the turbulence of the sea
before her very feet the salty waves crashed
but neither her headpiece nor flowing cloak
cared not, but on thee, Theseus, with all her thoughts
with all of her spirit, with all of her mind was hanging
miserable, the persistence which grief maddens
joining together the difficult desires
That storm, wild from the occasion that Theseus
setting forth from the wild shores of Piraei
reached the Gortian palace of the lawless king
for they tell of old, driven by a cruel pestilence
to pay a penalty for the slaughter of Androgenoneae
Was to show the chosen youth for the slaughter
Cecropia wanted to give as a feast to the Minotaur
now when his narrow walls are troubled by these problems
Theseus chose to offer himself for his dear Athens
in front of the living corpses so that they could not be taken to Crete
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
39
Smiles everlasting. If you come to the king
To the courtroom bench, with the speaker exciting on the river,
This shines; if they mourn at the funeral of their son
The mother will weep for the one son,
This shines. Whatever is it, wherever he is,
Whatever he does, he shines: he has death,
Neither elegance, or thinking, nor taste.
So my advice must be given now to you, my good Egnatius.
If you are of the city or you are a Sabine or Tiburnine
Or the pig of the Umbrian or an obese Etruscan
Or a black and tough Lanuvian,
Or Transpadane, or touching my people,
Or anybody, any people who have clean teeth,
You should still not be smiling at all times:
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
Celtiberians are not: Celtiberians are in the earth,
The natives are here, this one time is bad,
And his teeth and gums are red,
For, the cleaner your teeth are,
This is implied when one drinks a lot.
Parsing 5 Verbs:
1. est: 1st person present active indicative of "esse" meaning "to be".
2. esses: 1st person imperfect active subjunctive of "esse" meaning "to be".
3. renidet: 3rd person present active indicative of "renideo" meaning "to shine."
4. praedicet: 1st person present active indicative of "praedico" meaning "to proclaim."
5. habet: 2nd person present active indicative of "habeo" meaning "to have."
Friday, February 20, 2009
Bar Flies
the capped brothers of the ninth pillar,
Do you think that you alone have penises?
Do you think thatyou alone can have sex with whichever girl and call the others he-goats?
Or, because you fools sit in an unbroken line of 100 (or 200 perhaps?)
do you not think that I will dare to rape orally one or two hundred loungers?
Moreover you should think: for I will draw dicks on the front of the whole tavern for you
For my girl, whom has fled my embrace
whom I have loved as no other has loved
for whom great wars were fought by me,
has climbed to those I just mentioned.
all of you fine and well to do men love her, and indeed, which is undeserved, all of the small time louts and alleyway sex maniacs,
you are beyond the longhaired rabbit son of Celtiberae
Egnati, whose dark beard is good and makes teeth scoured in Spanish urine.
Putatis- 2nd person plural present active indicative of the word "putare"; meaning "to think"
Confutuere- 2nd person singular present passive subjunctive of the word "confutuare" meaning "to have sex with"
Fecit- 3rd person singular present active indicative of the word "Facere" meaning "to build"
Est- 3rd person singular present active indicative of the word "esse" meaning "to be"
Consedit- 3rd person singular perfect active indicative from the word "considere" meaning "to sit down"
Catullus' poem 37 cannot be simply categorized as a poem of insult, comedy, or the irony of love and life because it contains all of those elements. Rather, Catullus uses all of those elements to effectively express his dissatisfaction with the "womanizer" attitudes of the young aristocrats that hung out in the tavern. However, did Catullus really write this poem because he was annoyed with the arrogant attitudes of the "barflies"? That is part of it, but two basic human emotions are underlying themes in this poem: insecurity and jealously.
Catullus is not jealous of the "barflies" for their womanizing capabilities. He says "non putatis ausurum me una ducentos irrumare sessores?" which expresses that he is confident that he is more capable than them in getting the ladies. However, sometimes why someone said something is more important than what they said. Catullus writes that to tell the "barflies" that their promiscuous sex lives are no more impressive than the sex life of a he-goat. He uses the devices of comedy and insult to further express his opinion.confutuere et putare ceteros hircos"
Monday, February 2, 2009
catullus 1-40
They say that they float through the clear, surging waves of Neptune
Through Phasidos river and the country Aeeteos,
When the chosen youth, the strongest of the adult population,
They choose the golden Colchis turn away skin
When the chosen young man, the strongest of Argive adult population,
Desiring to go away from the Colchis golden fleece
They dared to sail swiftly over salt seas with ships
One the flat, blue salt water with wooden oars
For the goddess who holds the fortresses of the city tops
She made a light wind for the flying chariot
Binding the bent wood into the framework
TheAmphitriten's first rough voyage
she sailed with her beak over the windy sea
and the waves were tortured by the oars and grew white with foam
they looked up from the foaming whirlpool of waves
and the Nereids admired the strange thing
the mortal eyes saw by no other light than the sea
with their eyes the naked nymphs
Then Pelius is said to have caught the fire of love with Thetis
Thetis did not look down upon human marriage
then the father himself knew that pelius must be married to thetis
oh heroes, you were born in the happiest of ages
of your good mothers, hail!
you, i often address you in song
and you are greatly blessed with a lucky marriage (pine) torch
and Oceanus, who circles the world with sea?
now when the awaited day was fulfilled
Friday, January 30, 2009
ecphrasis
Inside, Sara found a wedding dress and she pulled it out. A tiny picture of a woman on her wedding day fell to the ground. Sara picked it up and recognized the woman as her mother, Jennifer. She closed her eyes and smelled the wedding dress. When she opened her eyes she wasn't in her attic anymore. She saw Jennifer sitting in front of a vanity so Sara called out to her, "Mom!". Jennifer didn't turn. Then the door opened and a woman told Jennifer that it was time for her to go. She got up and followed the woman, Sara followed. Then she saw her grandpa take Jennifer's arm. The organs began playing the familiar bridal tune and the old, wooden doors opened to the church's congregation. She looked down the isle and saw her father and how excited and in love he looked. She decided that she was invisible because no one was answering her calls, so she stood next to her parents as they exchanged vows. Later, at the reception Sara saw how much her parents loved each other and how excited they were to share their lives. Jennifer was so lively, she danced the whole time. Soon the reception was over and her parents were leaving to catch the plane for their honeymoon. As soon as the doors shut, Sara was transported back to her attic at her house.
She was curious to see what else would be in the box. She found a children's book when she looked in. Another picture fell out, it was also of her mother, but this time she was with her family as a little girl.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Change
The two references that I found were:
1. The columns of the Capital building were influenced by Classical columns
2. The very word inauguration comes from Latin words such as in- meaning
Monday, January 19, 2009
Winnie Ille Pu
Thursday, January 15, 2009
part ii
PART II
7. (100 points) for this part, you may use the Latin Library site, but no dictionaries. Answer the following in a five paragraph academic essay: Using the Book of Job from the Vulgate Translation, explain: if God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good, then why do bad things happen to good people? Your answer must cite the Latin text no less than 10 times or you will not receive ANY credit for your answer. You do not have to translate the Latin.
Maybe the reason that God allows bad things to happen to good people is to instill a deeper love of him, an unconditional love. Job mistook the bad things that happened to him as being a punishment from God. Too often in life people do the same thing that Job did. They question God and ask, “Why me?” They immediately think that when bad things happen to them that they are being punished, but when one has nothing to be punished for, and is called by God to be “mea servo” then why is he punished?
It seems a bit contradictory that humans admit to God being “omnipotens”, yet they still question his actions. If they really believed that he knew all then why would they even attempt to understand his mysterious ways? God became angry with Job when he questioned Him, saying, “uis est iste qui celat consilium absque scientia ideo insipienter locutus sum et quae ultra modum excederent scientiam meam”.
God’s actions in the story of Job may be a metaphor for life and the after life. God gives Job all of his possessions back twofold after he endured all the suffering. “ Dominus autem benedixit novissimis Iob magis quam principio eius et facta sunt ei quattuordecim milia ovium et sex milia camelorum et mille iuga boum et mille asinae
13 et fuerunt ei septem filii et filiae tres”. The end of the story may be a metaphor for what will happen in Heaven if one is a good follower of God.
God is saying that things that happen in this life are not given on terms of good behavior, they are given through reasons that only God can know and understand.
If God is all powerful, all knowing, and all good then why would a mere human even attempt to try to understand why bad things happen to good people?
midterm
PART I
1. (10 points) Translate the following.
Please write your translation next to or under the poem.
Vivamus mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
rumoresque senum seueriorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis!
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.
dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,
conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,
aut ne quis malus inuidere possit,
cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.
Let us live, My Lesbia,
And let us value all of the rumors of the old senators at one penny!
Give me a thousand kisses, and then a hundred, and then another thousand, and then a second hundred, and then another thousand, and another hundred
Then, after we have made many thousands of kisses
2. (10 points) In a five paragraph academic essay, answer the following question: Some scholars believe that although this poem is addressed to Lesbia, Catullus actually wrote it with the intention of criticizing the publicly espoused mores of the Republican Roman aristocracy. Explain how these scholars get this idea and then argue either in defense of the theory or argue against it. You must cite no less than 2 examples of grammatical or syntactical evidence from the poem to back up your claim.
Catullus was a very passionate writer. He was opinionated, witty, and unafraid to expose his true desires. This poem may have a duel meaning. The first meaning is obviously seen through his expression of his devotion and love to Lesbia. However, the second meaning is his expression of his contempt for the Roman aristocracy.
He writes “atque amemus,/ rumoresque senum seueriorum/omnes unius aestimemus assis!”. He critiques the judgmental and gossipy nature of the old men in the aristocracy. He says that he values their opinion less than how much he would value a penny. Those words vividly describe his dislike of those men.
He later says that “ne sciamus,/ aut ne quis malus inuidere possit,/ cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.” He is openly admitting that he does not care what those men think of him because he thinks that they are petty. It is almost like a slap in the face to the old men. He is disregarding what those men think
3. (10 points) Translate the following.
Please write your translation under the text.
Catullus I.I
Cui dono lepidum novum libellum
arida modo pumice expolitum?
Corneli, tibi: namque tu solebas
meas esse aliquid putare nugas
iam tum, cum ausus es unus Italorum
omne aevum tribus explicare cartis
doctis, Iuppiter, et laboriosis.
quare habe tibi quidquid hoc libelli
qualecumque; quod, patrona virgo
plus uno maneat perenne saeclo.
Who should I give this lovely little book to?
Cornelius,
4. (10 points) Some scholars have argued that Ovid's story of Europa and the Bull is a metaphor for the Augustan Era. Do you agree or disagree? Write your response in a 5 paragraph academic essay.
Ovid’s story of Europa and the Bull can serve more purposes than mere entertainment. He may have written the story as a metaphor for the Augustan Era. It is an arguable theory, but not necessarily true.
The stories that Ovid wrote served purposes, normally teaching the importance of good morals or just for entertainment. Many of his stories were passed down through tradition. Europa and the Bull was a story about open to new ideas and not being combative and to tell the story of how Europe got its name. Europa became friends with the bull, when all the other girls were afraid of it. The Augustan Era was host to the Pax Romana, arguably the most prosperous and peaceful time in the history of the Roman Empire. However, the idea of being peaceful and open was not necessarily a new idea.
One could make the story of Europa and the Bull into a metaphor for the Augustan Era through relating the peaceful beginning and harsh end of Europa to the peaceful beginning and harsh end of the Pax Romana, but does that mean that was the conscious intention of Ovid when he was writing the story? If all of his other stories were simply stories that had simple meanings, then this story is probably no different.
“Some scholars” could argue that all of Ovid’s stories were metaphors for something because metaphors can be made from any situation, time period, or event relatively easily. Therefore, it is a great assumption to say that he was making that metaphor. If all of Ovid’s other stories were metaphors for events in Roman history then it would be more plausible that the story of Europa and the Bull is also a metaphor. However, his other stories were fables meant to be a metaphor for whatever the good moral that the story describes is or they were stories about the gods that were passed down through tradition.
While it is possible that he made the story into that metaphor, it is a stretch to say that was his intention. Scholars are right in saying that Europa and the Bull could be a metaphor for the Augustan period, but they are most likely wrong in saying that it was his purpose to make it into that metaphor.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Stay Classy Planet Earth
Seacreast Out
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
42- Job
42
But responding to God, Job said
I know that you are able to know all and nothing can escape your thought
That which is concealed by your intelligence, without knowledge I therefore foolishly speak and the method o f your manner passes beyond my knowledge
You hear and I speak and ask and you reveal me
Your ear, hearing, I hear you now therefore my eyes see you
Therefore, in person, I blame myself and I urge you to change your mind from ashes and embers
But after you speak is God words which from Job said the anger of Eliphaz Themaniten is my passionate love in you and two friends because you are not in the presence of me you are just as my virtuous servant Job
Therefore, You take up 7 bulls and seven rams and march to my servant Job and offer burning sacrifice on behalf of you therefore my servant Job will beg on behalf of you I will accept his face even if you do not charge him with stupidity nor speak namely he is honest to me just as my servant Job
Therefore, Eliphaz Themanites and Baldad and Sophar Naamathites depart and did just as God said and God accepted Job's presence
Likewise God cleared away Job's sins seeing that Job asked for penance that is on behalf of his friends and God gave Job double of all he had.
Therefore he comes to all his brothers and all his sisters and all he was earlier familiar with and seeing that, they consumed the same bread in their house and moved above his head and they comforted and consoled him for all of the bad that God brought upon him and they each gave him a sheep and one golden earring.
Therefore the Lord blessed Job with more than that which he had previously with 40 thousand sheep and 6 thousand camels and a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she- donkeys
And with seven sons and three daughters
And he said that the name of the first day and the name of the second Cassia and the name of the third horn antimony
Therefore, they were not finding women more beautiful than Job's daughters in all of the region and their father gave an inheritance among their brothers
Then Job lived for 4 hundred years and his sons and his son's sons for 4 generations and then he died, full of days
Sunday, January 4, 2009
liber iobi; caput I
In the land of Uz there lived a man named Job and he was a simple and righteous fearing God and avoiding evil and born unto him were seven sons and three girls.
And in his possession were seven thousand sheep and three thousands camels
Likewise, 500 yoke of oxen and 500 female asses and a exceedingly large family and this man is greater than any of the men in all the east
And he walked with his sons and they made a feast throughout their home, each one his own day, and his men sent and summoned three of his sisters to put away the banquet and drink when they at any time they went over around the day of the banquet they were sent by Job and sanctified that who they ambushed at dawn he offered burnt scarifices even though he said that his sons were sinnersburned the sacrifice for every sin and they indeed, truly my sons have sinned and they praise God with their hearts thus they make Job (all day) but with the day the sons came God appeared before them
and on that particular day the sons of God were sent to appear before God and with them came Satan