Attempting Latin

Doing my best to learn Latin, and having fun with it. LLSPI is awesome. Also some Archeology stuff, possibly. My main blog is @anaundying.

[attemptinglatin]

Felix sit mensis inflationis! Happy pride month everyone! (Apologies for the, probably, horrible Latin phrasing.) 

[attemptinglatin]

Io Lupercalia! Gaudeamus igitur et hircum sacrificemus!

- Happy Lupercalia! Therefore let us rejoice and sacrifice a goat!

[attemptinglatin]

Ad Atticum, 13 (I.13)

Pro ipso dicit.

[princeps-civitatis-augustus]

New rules for new theatres!

For information on the seating order, please consult the Lex Iulia Theatralis.

[hortensius-deactivated20240909]

they exiled him for his big naturals

[attemptinglatin]

Quare??? Quia???

[interretialia]

Felicem Christi Natalem!

Ita vero!

[volumina-vetustiora]

@noctuamagna and anyone else interested, a summary of what @gnostica-et-vetusta was saying:

[anaundying]

Crispus, buddy, you're not doing this right. You're just making me fall in love with her.

[attemptinglatin]

Status: me adiungere coniurationi Catilinae

[attemptinglatin]

"senatus nihil sane intentus"

the senate, chill as fuck

[valtsv]

sorry i'm getting beheaded can i call you back

[attemptinglatin]

Felicem diem mortis Marci Tullii Ciceronis vobis cupio.

[nathanielthecurious]

i found another really good G-rated pompeii graffito. a normal polite beginning of letters was "if you're well, that's good, I'm well". this woman wrote on a wall:

To Alexander from Livia. If you're well, I don't care very much. If you're dead, I'm rightly glad.

[jb-blunk]

I 💗 the human experience. There is blood in my mouth !

[attemptinglatin]

Ego 💗 experientia humanam. Sanquis in ore meo est!

[attemptinglatin]

Salve! Diarium tuum interretiale mihi placet! Gaudeo Linguam Latinam a te temptari. Licetne mihi dicere tibi pauca verba ad Latinitatem tuam pertinentia? Neque crudelis neque asper ero. Vale.

Scilicet, quaeso! Gaudium tuum honor meus est.

[attemptinglatin]

Causa examinis studeo et paucas litteras Ciceronis transferro. Interdum Cicero agnus bellulus incertusque est.

Because of my exam, I am making an effort and translating a few letters of Cicero. Sometimes he is an adorable insecure lamb.

[attemptinglatin]

hey many people say studying classics in university is useless and that you wont get a job. is this true? because i really want to study classics

First of all: I'm not the best person to ask, since I am still studying and have not had any first hand experience in the job market in the field. I have been told it's hard, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. I think it depends on what you want to go for after Uni, where you are, and even how University works there (I, for example, am not doing a general classics degree, which isn't even offered here, but a double bachelor in latin and archeology).

Here we seem to always have a shortage of teachers, so if you do latin and history or something entirely different in a teacher program, you probably don't need to worry.

Personally, I had the same worries, and still do sometimes, which is why I studied something else first, even though it has always been my dream to study archeology, but that did not work out for me, so after a few semesters of trying to figure things out, I decided to study what makes me happy (which I don't think is ever completely useless). I would love to work as an archeologist later, but I also have some other ideas I could pursue based on my degree.

Again, I'm not the best person to ask, and if anyone has any advice, please put it in the notes.