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TODAY IS DAY 42. Mirablile visu, students continued reciting passages of Aeneid 4 from memory, complete with elisions, pauses, and coincidence of ictus and accent after the caesura. TODAY IN AENEID BOOK 4 (474-552): Concealing her plans from her sister, Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 42
Day 41 was yesterday, August 7, 2012. Students have begun reciting passages of Aeneid 4 from memory, taking careful pains with their elision, pausing at their principal caesurae, and showcasing the coincidence of ictus and accent after the caesura. Mirablile Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 41
Day 40 was yesterday, August 6, 2012. Eight weeks down, two weeks to go! This was our second week with Book 4 of Vergil’s Aeneid. The morning was devoted to the reading that students prepared over the weekend… TODAY IN Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 40
Day 39 was Friday, August 3, 2012. Vergil in the morning… TODAY IN AENEID BOOK 4 (219-295): Moved by the prayer of Iarbas, Jupiter sends Mercury to Aeneas to remind him of his high destiny and of his duty to Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 39
Day 38 is TODAY, August 2, 2012. The morning started off with some Vergil… TODAY IN AENEID BOOK 4 (129-218): Aeneas and Dido go on a hunting party. While all are intent on the chase, Juno sends a sudden tempest, Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 38
Day 37 is TODAY, August 1, 2012. The morning started off with some Vergil… TODAY IN AENEID BOOK 4 (54-128): Love drives Dido to frenzy. Juno favors the marriage of Dido and Aeneas, in order that she may turn Aeneas Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 37
Day 36 was yesterday, July 31, 2012. Book 4 of Vergil’s Aeneid in the morning, optional sight reading from Vergil’s Eclogues at lunch, a lecture on lexicography in the early afternoon, followed by an 80-minute romp through fragments of Livius Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 36
Day 35 was Monday, July 30. Eventful start of an eventful week! Students took a prose final exam in the morning, and I presented introductory lectures on Vergil, the Aeneid, and dactylic hexameter in the afternoon. By 3:30, students were Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 35
Day 34 was Friday, July 27. The last day of the prose survey section of the second half of the course. It’s all over except for the prose final exam on Monday. It was a lighter day for me. 8:30 Continue reading Summer Latin Institute – DAY 34
In a Nutshell: A story about Thomas Eagleton on NPR reminds me of what I was doing in the summer of 1972, a bittersweet and melancholy summer that in some ways set the tone for the rest of my life. Continue reading Thomas Eagleton, the Summer of 1972, and Me