04.04.24 next step will be translating texts which means I’ll stay at the library until 8 pm. Then I’ll go eat sushi and contemplate the meaning of life 🍵
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4.01.2023
University starts again for me today. I really have a lot to do because the final exams are in a month.
So there's nothing better than going to the library after my seminars and studying while it's raining heavily outside.
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FLEUR DE LYS-SHAPED BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin, use of Rome (Paris, c. 1553). Illuminated manuscript on paper.
180 x 80mm. i + 117 leaves, each page with 24 lines written in a 'roman' hand in black ink within a liquid gold border in the shape of a half fleur de lys, spaces infilled with liquid gold fronds on blue or red grounds, line-fillers and one- and two-line initials of the same colours, eleven lobe-shaped miniatures. Nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt, semé with fleur de lys, doublures of red morocco gilt, edges gauffered and gilt (upper cover detached). [Christies Auction House, 2006 catalog]
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Winnie Ille Pu
Who the heck translated Winnie the Pooh into Latin. Why would you ever do that.
(It is a rhetorical question: I am aware of the translator on the cover.)
I found another Pooh book in Latin!
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Latin language speakers in 230 in the Roman Empire.
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You wandering and winsome little soul,
The body's guest and its companion too,
Into what places now will you depart?
You pale and stiff and naked little thing,
You won't make jokes the way you're wont to do.
Animula vagula blandula
Hospes comesque corporis
Quae nunc abibis in loca?
Pallidula rigida nudula
Nec ut soles dabis iocos.
--The dying poem of the Roman emperor Hadrian, cited in the "Vita Hadriani" of the Historia Augusta
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sad that my latin teacher decided to be boring today instead of realizing the humor in the fact that my class has 23 students and it’s the ides of march
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31.10.22
It's very rainy and foggy in my hometown today. It gives so much halloweenvibes..🎃
Nevertheless, I have to translate a text for my latin- seminar📚
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I’m so tired of people discussing what’s the greatest truth Donna Tartt wrote in The Secret History when it’s obviously this one
“You want to know what Classics are?" said a drunk Dean of Admissions to me at a faculty party a couple of years ago. "I'll tell you what Classics are. Wars and homos.”
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