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We should all be nervous any time an authoratarian is in power anywhere.

@CannedMan I learned Latin from Oulton's three books, and the accompanying, "Latin Translations" by Betty Halifax. The first two cover the basics; book III, all the difficult stuff. Each has an associated answer book; but only the book III one is necessary. I am not familiar with this "Revision Guide", but if it's as good as his other material it will be worth the buying. He also does online lectures (free) so you can actually get to see him!

@livresque Locabar is the 1sg passive imperfect indicative. The verb locare is transitive and is attested in the passive.

University of Helsinki chooses not to discontinue the classical subjects under threat (in Finnish).

Is he too busy running the ministry of wealth and hellfare?

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I'd be surprised if nobody on this site has elaborate fantasies about explaining modern life to a Roman brought here by a time machine.

See also this old article: jstor.org/stable/2590789

@tony Temples were often banks. For example, the Temple of Saturn in Rome held all of Rome's treasury.

Voting just started in our graduation election! You can vote for as many as you like, putting them in an order of preference.

@JoonasIlmavirta Oops, I thought I copied and pasted. youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

ephor.us/latinwordle

I've lately been feeling the academic itch. I've started eyeing academic jobs, but I really don't want to do the world tour to find something.

@CannedMan Here it is explained in Allen and Greenough: dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/…

I posted an answer under the recent meta post. I'd be very interested to see what others, especially non-moderators, think of the business.

@Adam An old colleague of mine actually put together a list for Egyptian: isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/getting-started-with-middle-egyptian

@Cerberus Imagine how ineffective that would be. Catberus is quickly subdued by a catnip-wielding Hercules. And if that didn't work he could just bring a cardboard box.

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who is helping answer questions posted to the Community! I've wanted to teach myself Latin for a long time, and being old enough have grown up before the internet was really accessible for most people (and well before it became the amazing resource it is now). I learn best by teaching myself, usually, and it would be so much more difficult if there wasn't an amazing community to get assistance from.

@Adam Simplex sigillum veri!

@Adam I don't think they allow part time after Proserpina.

@Cerberus No reason to strip someone of moderator status.

@TylerDurden Don't you think the poster is looking for an answer that is proper Latin?

Re your comment about negativity - I don't necessarily view direct critical feedback as negative. It's not being told I am wrong that is bad, it's how it's done that might be negative.

I still sort of believe in the latter. That this whole enterprise is a for-profit company makes me a little leery.

@Canned Man: In these situations it pays to translate literally: "when (cum) luxury has fabricated (commenta est) something (aliquid) of new (novi) in which (quo) she, [that is luxury], (ipsa) has undone herself (se obrueret).". All becomes clear.

@tony It's not @CannedMan's call; it was Cicero who chose not to omit it!

@CannedMan Quonam is not the adverbial word "whither" here, but the adjectival word "which/what(...ever)"!

> Therefore, as we were sorrowfully laying plans on where we might evade with regards to the oncoming storm

It's election season. Time for some ambitio!

Congrats to @C.M.Weimer on being the first to pass 1k!

Memento-- Lingua est gaudium -- et utilis!

Thanks for your help by the way; I'm pretty sure without this site and people like you, Joonas, Cerberus, and the many awesome members, I wouldn't be learning Latin and would definitely be using extremely poor Latin with my mythology.

it doesn't use a dictionary, and instead has an internal word list

I didn't know that was a style hehe.

wordle.latindictionary.io

She should simply be reinstated as a moderator and they should offer a public apology and then Nathaniel could stop protesting :)

@Narusan Aww, there are way too many people who have studied Latin one-sidedly. Even that one direction would be stronger if people were trained both ways.

If all of us spent all our time trying to convince each other of our deeply held beliefs, we wouldn't get around to studying much Latin.

The bear has quite an identity crisis.

This often happens with translation: It's not enough to give a text. You need to explain what you want it to mean.

@JoonasIlmavirta @Cerberus @Nathaniel Thanks for being moderators of this site. It's truly a fun place.

We're out of private beta.

@CannedMan Merging is heavier: it irrevocably removes one tag from all questions and replaces it with the other one (apart from questions where they used to coexist). Synonymization just means that for purposes of searching they are considered identical.

Merging cannot be undone, synonymization can.

@JohhanSantana A bit of pressure is good for keeping up momentum. But if you force yourself too much, you'll only teach yourself to hate the subject.

@CannedMan That's exactly what the translators are doing: making it clear in English what is clear from the Latin, but not so much clear from a word-by-word translation of the Latin.

I'm partial to macarons myself.