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I offered this poem to my Latin III students recently. They dutifully translated it, but, as it should be, they did not appreciate the mess...

Composition, the translation of English into Latin, has long been a chore for students learning Latin. I've always enjoyed the mental ex...

I attended a fundraiser for the Amy High Latin Foundation on Saturday, May 13. I decent event, all in all. One of the highlights was a demon...

April 21st has arrived and provides us with the opportunity to reread Livy and revisit the founding of Rome: Ita Numitori Albana re permissa...

In Latin II we have been discussing Roman food and dining habits. Of course we covered reclining in the triclinium, garum, olive oil, and th...

It has been too long since I posted a picture so I offer this image of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi: I took this photograph in July 2004 ...

The poet Martial writes in Epigram V.58: Cras te victurum, cras dicis, Postume, semper: dic mihi, cras istud, Postume, quando venit? Quam l...

“Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” I think I first heard this smirky phrase when I was a student in high school. I probably even l...

A poster of Leonardo da Vinci arrived in the mail the other day. Actually it was a promotion for a travel company, but I took it to the pape...

I came across The Faber Book of Useful Verse , edited by Simon Brett (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd, 1981) on my shelves today and found this...

Can you believe it? Now that the secret is out, never again must we huddle our students into the back of a plane and cart them off to Italy ...

"Beware the Ides of March!" Many people will playfully tout this warning today without being completely aware of what they are say...

A little while ago there was a request on the LatinTeach list for a good mnemonic device to remember the kings of Rome. The one I use is: R...

When people ask why the study of Latin and the classics is so popular in Virginia, I usually tell them that it is all Thomas Jefferson's...

I took the first few minutes of my classes these past two days and spoke to my students about the desperate need for teachers -- good teach...

This has been National Foreign Language Week and, in our school, Latin was assigned Thursday as our day to celebrate. I am proud to say th...

Most people, even those who have never studied the Latin language, recognize and know the meaning of the phrase tempus fugit -- "time ...

I recently gave a diversionary assignment to my students in AP Latin in which they had to create original zeugmas. We made a contest out of ...

In his letter describing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, Pliny the Younger writes, Nubes...oriebatur, cuius similitudinem et formam non alia m...

My students asked today what we were doing after the AP Latin Literature exam. Certainly they are not looking ahead and anticipating the end...