The Official Tumblr of BRMHS JCL

Salvete, omnes! This is our new JCL tumblr. Enjoy!

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Latin I students enthusiastically modeling finished gladiator armor for our Fall Fair booth

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TBT

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Billy Jean

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Hope everyone had a great time at Saturnalia last night. For those of you who didn't/couldn't go, I feel really sorry for you. Hight lights of the night: -Lifesaver game -Happy Birthday -Rachael's epic facial expressions -Trevor -The Catholic boys singing -Jasmine embarrassing Lucy X.

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Don't forget the cookies and sweetbreads!

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It's long, but interesting. Please read! :)

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All smiles for the Hunger Walk!

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TBT

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JCL making Saturnalia decorations

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H Αίγλη της νύχτας, η μαγεία της πανσέληνου, και το μεγαλείο του Παρθενώνα.!

Τhe glamour of night, the bewitchment of the full moon, and the splendor of the Parthenon.!

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Office Christmas Party=Saturnalia

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We are celebrating Saturnalia on December 6 and if you haven't signed up to bring food, please do so. Not many people have signed up, so we won't have much food as of now. Help make this year's Saturnalia a success!

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Great turnout for the publicity workshop. And Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 was hilarious. 

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TBT

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Cerberus!

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TRADITIONS

Religion played a very important role in the daily life of the Romans. The Ancient Roman religion centers around gods and goddesses, explanations for events usually involved the gods in some way or another. The Romans believed that gods controlled their lives and, as a result, spent...

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A little bit of history

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That’s quite a jump, from “firewood” to “the matter which makes up everything” but I’ll go along with it.

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Ad vivendum velut ad natandum is melior qui onere liberior. - It is with life just as with swimming: the most nimble man is the one who wears less burdens.

Apuleius, Apologia 21, p. 368

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Just keep swimming!

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New Latin definition

I was teaching my students the word “Pergraecor”, meaning “to party” or more literally “to Greek it up” since the Romans thought the Greeks were a bunch of partiers and drunks. 

I hear in the back of the room “Greek it up for what!”

This is now my new definition of “pergraecor.”