#wfulatin

[latinthusiast]

t-14 minutes to defense

oh man. oh man. oh man i am gonna defend my thesis. oh man. 

oh man. well what could go wrong.... i’m a latin major with a latin thesis in greek. this is gonna be great.

[latinthusiast]

the end of the thesis

is impending. within the next 4 days, preferably 2, because if i can finish this by monday then my brain can think about NOT GREEK and then everything will be just great.

but actually, i’m pretty confident i can get this done between today and monday afternoon.

[latinthusiast]

thesis so close to done

and today i go through my glossary and fix as much as i can

it’s 4 full pages single spaced

ugh. so dry.

on the upside, my translation reads more ‘english-y’

[latinthusiast]

Thesaurus Linguae Grecae appreciation post

because it makes digging deep into Greek texts so much more doable. 

[latinthusiast]

thesis milestone

got through my first translation of De Imitatione!

much editing to be done. also, much commentary to be written.

[latinthusiast]

thesis update

So maybe I don't hate research at all and I just need someone helpful to keep me pointed in the right direction.

We've been discussing Plato and rhetoric and body metaphor and ethics and physics and metaphysics and

this is why I love studying classics because it is, without exaggeration, all of the things. 

Ahead this week, I begin reading Περὶ μιμήσεως (in Greek!).

[latinthusiast]

saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturus, neque te ut miretur turba labores, contentus paucis lectoribus.

Horace Satires 1.10.72-74

"Often you will use your eraser, if you are going to write something worthy of being read over again, and you should be content with few readers, not that the crowds wonder at your works."

[latinthusiast]

ad celebrandam linguam latinam

hodie est SPEAK YOUR OWN LANGUAGE DAY!

sed ego linguam latinam non loquor quasi Romanus ciuis. utinam lingua latina uiuat aeterne! 

today i also have to write a letter in latin for my latin class of the semester. it's gone well so far, i think. i'd be using latin right now except that i was trained classically and "class," "assignment," and other such vocabulary are tough to come by without making up words or breaking from classical norms.