Learning Latin and Greek

Latin for Americans can go die in a hole. I hope the Cambridge Latin Course burns. Celia Luschnig physically hurts me. Catullus is a freaking weirdo. Horace is on steroids. Egeria needs to learn some grammar rules. Augustine has depression. Carmina Burana gave me life (a reason to sing in class)

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

Anyone want to help me write a Greek History paper? No? Okay :(

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

No one is so stupid the he would prefer war to peace, for in one the sons bury their fathers while in the other the fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus, The Histories [1.87]

Translated by Walter Blanco

[parker-industries]

Peter: Mr Stark, please don’t do this…

Tony: stop, your making this harder then it has to be-

Peter: I’m begging you, after all we’ve been through?

Tony: I’m so sorry, Peter

Tony: *places a +4 card*

Tony: uno

[latinusorator]

Peter: Starke, imploro te ne faciam

Tony: Desiste, facis difficiliorem necessitate

Peter: Imporo, nonne post omnia agimus? 

Tony: Me paenitet, Peter. (Ponit plus 4)

Tony: Uno

[latinusorator]

From the History Memes facebook page.

[latinusorator]

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

So I’m reading this and I’m just like.... Woww I relate to Augustine. The dude just wants to sit in a garden and cry? Same, man.

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

I’ve returned!

I was dead for a short while. But I’m baCK!

Anyway, this semester I’m reading some medieval latin and it’s a H O O T. 

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

summer time is just a waste of stressing about forgetting everything you learned over the school year, but never doing doing anything to help keep up your skills. 

i should be translating but i just want to relax. but i cant relax when im thinking about how i should be translating. but i definitely cant relax when im translating <-- a cycle of doom.

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

I finished my exams!

I lowkey think I failed my Latin one.... but I definitely passed my Greek final!!

[nathanielthecurious]

Brief Guide to Ancient Lyric Poets

Pindar: HORSES ARE COOL

Sappho: I’m gay and I’m in overwhelmingly strong love

Catullus: my friend did this thing that was dumb so I wrote a poem

Horace: morals! manliness! spring is here! we’re all going to die!

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

Horace/Catullus  term paper

I have a term paper due in a week and I literally don’t even have topic yet. I don’t even know what I want to argue about with regards to Horace other than that he is freaking hard to read.

So it you have any idea’s please let me know!

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

Screaming

Anyone else have this extreme feeling when theyre translating, like you just want to scream really loud even though you know you shouldnt because technically you can translate it its not that hard but you just really want to scream anyway because it feels like everything is really hard and the only way to fix it is to give up and scream and run away?

No just me oh okay then.

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

Horace is kicking my ass.

My translation looks like:

ablative ablative ablative ablative ablative ablative ablative ablative accusative? ablative ablative ablative ablative dative? ablative ablative ablative nominative. ablative dative? dative? accusative ablative ablative genetive ablative ablative

but they’re all out of order and none of it makes sense.

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

If you’re ever in the mood for a  w i l d  time, try reading Catullus’ Lesbia peoms while listening to the High School Musical soundtracks. 

Catullus is just as moody as they are. So, it’s an interesting pairing

[glitteredsunsets-deactivated202]

Trying to find some study tools for Greek and found this nifty little preposition comic.

Not gonna lie, I definitely laughed.  Mainly because of how completely absurd it is.

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

Homework

College classics culture is constantly pretending that you know what you’re doing. When in reality, everyone is just existing on fragments of memories from class because our homework is actually too hard to do. 

[pleasesendhelpiamastudent]

ἒστιν ὁ φιλος ἄλλος αὐτός  - Aristotle

“A friend is a second self”