Medieval Latin

Latin from the Middle Ages. By @Boaz_Schuman

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If you wish to be known by everyone, first make it so that you know no one.

Si vis omnibus esse notus, prius effice ut neminem noveris.

—De Moribus (Pseudo-Seneca), 37

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@DrFrancisYoung @HurstPublishers euge! res secundae

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@InuitKodiak mirabile dictu!

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@Pontus4Pope This is especially interesting because "hermanastro" can mean a step-sibling and a half-sibling. I wonder whether the second meaning is prior.

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@fritzfelgentreu @OneMoreSpock @grahamscheper hilarious -- beats the old "semper ubi sub ubi" school joke.

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@fannin_shauna procul dubio!

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Plusminusve
—more or less

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mirabile dictu

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@AntigoneJournal As opposed to all those other Iliads

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@JamesWHankins1 euge!

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@_sen_sharmila @Harvard_Press On the positive side, the bindings of Loebs are better now than ever.

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@Eric_T_Racher hands down!

"I quizzed you a quid and you went to the quod"

"and you have remembered my lapsus langways"

and on and on

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@Jonatha63836285 @NicholasMorto11 euge!

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@AlexAndBooks_ Caesar's "Gallic War" ("De Bello Gallico")

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@DrFrancisYoung Interesting! Do we know what the first email said—and whether it hoped "to find you well"?

("Dear Sender, Your email does not find me well: I have fallen down a mine shaft, and have only 7% battery left please send help")

Or was it a classical old two-way "Si vales, valeo"?

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@OdenKate One nice little thing about the series is how the dedications develop: first to his wife, then to their (newborn?) daughter, and so on.

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When I worked at the CNIB audiobook studio, we usually just cut the spines off the books so they would lie flat. (If the book closes, or even if you have to hold it open, the microphone will pick it up).

I still recall the horror when I told this to Nelson, who ran the print shop at Massey College: "What an indictment of modern bookbinders!"

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Proof of the major: etymologically, an ἰδιώτης is a private person—i.e. one who is not engaged in public affairs. But all politicians are engaged in public affairs. Therefore, etc

Proof of the minor depends on existential generalization. It is left to the reader as an exercise.

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If words are just their etymologies, then no politician is an idiot (ἰδιώτης, idiótes).

But at least some politician is an idiot.

Therefore, words are not just their etymologies.