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latinam linguam doceo • Devoted Enemy of Marcus Aurelius • almost free from DBG • amateur bladesmith • TTRPG stuff• GM for @AleaPod • he/ille/αυτός
Abusing Cicero’s Patience
Joined December 2019
In high school, a girl crocheted me a bulbasaur plushie and would get us Starbucks before practice with “Link” and “Zelda” written on them. I honestly thought she was just trying to be nice. We got married in June.
Fellas, if a girl does something like this for you, odds are good that she is begging you to propose to her. She has in fact practically proposed to you.
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This season of Game Changer looks crazy.
‘LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL’ is Certified Fresh at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Described as one of the best indie horror movies in years that breathes fresh life into the exorcism genre.
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Is it a crime to enjoy a succulent Hellenic fable?
A burglar who broke into an apartment in Rome last night was arrested after sitting down mid-robbery to read a book about Greek mythology.
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Excuse to post wedding pics??? Excuse to post wedding pics??
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Well this is starting to take off so if you notice, our groomsmen all have swords, because I make swords. I’m trying to expand my workshop, so if you want a sword, send me a DM! If you buy me some tools, I’ll make you a sword!.
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Just overheard one of my Latin 1 students walking to lunch go, “It’s fucking frigidum out here!”.
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A teacher whose class is next door to mine said to me, “my class heard you and your students chanting in Latin, and we had to laugh because it sounded like you were trying to summon a demon.” Embarrassed at how on the mark she was I explained we were actually reading an exorcism.
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My middle schoolers read Iliad 16 today and one of the kids interrupted my reading to go, “wait… did the narrator just refer to Patroclus in the second person?”. I nearly started running around the room howling like a coyote.
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I love this image so much. I want to blown it up and hang it in my classroom.
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and you people said spoken Latin was a waste of class time.
Told a girl with a septum piercing that i think shes annoying, she said some shit in latin and i havent been able to appear in mirrors ever since
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Platonic flirting is what Alcibiades was doing in the Symposium.
platonic flirting while being in a relationship is literally cheating.
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@sanstitre2000 Modern trads: “You made the Greek warrior look like a femboy 😡😡😡”. Ancient Greek men:
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Aelius ut gladiātor erat sīcut Nero cantor. Sīc agit heu nōbīs twitter ineptus Elōn
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Has anyone ever written about the role of silly little guys in Miyazaki movies? I feel like he goes out of his way to include them, and I’d like to believe it’s not just a cynical merch grab
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It’s real Latin folks
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Ugh this picture is going around again. Here’s why it’s not an accurate representation of Napoleonic warfare (1/42)
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"Goblin Mode" from the Latin 'modus Gobelini': 'the manner of a Goblin', first attested in Cicero's letters where he predicts "Cras me in istum [Catilinam] coram Senatu modo Gobelini geram' (Tomorrow before the Senate, I shall go Goblin mode on his (Catilina's) ass).
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Interesting that “amongus” followed the same shift to “amogus” as the Greek γγ did.
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The beginning of the Iliad, rendered in common meter, so that you can sing it to the Pokémon theme song whenever you want
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Kinda wild how one of the most popular Greek names in history —to the point it’s still popular today— just means “guy who really likes horses”.
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Her,
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In Ancient Rome, the traditional head of the house was known as the paterfamilias, often rendered in English as the Family Guy,.
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Same-sex marriage will be legalized in Greece, the government said Thursday, despite opposition from the Orthodox Church. READ MORE:
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🎄 HEUS ‼️ OMNES HAE ‼️ 🎅🏻 HAE 🎅🏻 HETAERAE ‼️🎅🏻🎄☃ FELICEM FUTivitatem 📅 🎁🍆💦 ac tu 🤔 scis ⁉️🎄️🤔 quid illud ❄️ significet ⁉️🤔☃ 🕗 tempus est 🕠 Santae 🎅🏻 2️⃣ venire 💦💦 ⬇️ de ⬇️ tuo fumamento 🏠 et expurgare 🚚 eius 🎅🏻 sacculum 🛍😳 salsorum dulcium 🎅🏻🍆💦💦 in 🔛 te.
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Ruined my wife’s day by informing her Dennis is the English rendering of Dionysus.
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WAIT. It's disco, as in discotheque, as in discotheca, as in δισκοθήκη, because THATS WHERE YOU KEEP RECORDS.
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Damn. I thought I had a little longer. Happens to all of us eventually, I guess.
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Spain (EN)-> España (ESP)-> Hispania (LAT). Thus,.Snoopy -> Esnupi -> Hisnupis.
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still not over Caesar sending an entire invasion force to Britain and then calling the Britons' effort to repel him
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Also I saw some people asking, so my suit was done by Lee's Custom Tailoring. He really went hard on this and was super great to work with. Highly recommend if you can afford it. (I was saving up for years lmao). The embroidery was done by a friend.
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The interesting thing to me about Classics/Latin is that there actually are tons of job opportunities. It’s just they’re almost all at the kind of places that straight up tell you in an interview that homosexuality is a sin. (Actual thing that happened to me twice).
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Beefing with a teenage girl is a classic blunder. Everyone knows they have a preternatural ability to zero in on your insecurities and then exploit that ruthlessly. Rookie move, honestly.
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What kind of dative? Obviously it’s a dative of fuck you I know what it says.
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It genuinely boggles my mind how little I hear Ancient Greek teachers talking about using AC:O’s sea shanties in their classes. They’re authentic, Ancient Greek written in the 2nd C, they’re call and response(!), and they’re catchy!. Also then have male *and* female voices.
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Saved this in my drafts to post today
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It’s probably a good thing the Julius Caesar won the civil war. Could u imagine if Roman emperors were called Pompeys.
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Is this why I had to deal with this message from a friend on Christmas Eve
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Delian League threatens to expel Athens over misappropriation of tribute money.
The Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rute, warned that, in the event that Donald Trump hands over Ukraine to Russia, the United States of America will be excluded from the NATO Alliance.
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I am intrigued to learn how everyone learned about Greek mythology. Come tell me about my article!.
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Met a Celt once. I asked if he was from one of the tribes that allied themselves with the Helvetii. He said, "Yeah, Boii".
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Tbh it’s hard to tell sometimes, especially when you’re talking about the ancient world, so let’s break down how I knew this was specifically Nazi propaganda. The smell test. You’ll notice I highlighted 3 phrases below. The first one is the least likely to mean anything
can we please stop retweeting "historical" threads from fascists? please.
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Mary Shelley writes like someone who really liked Latin class.
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the absolute HAVOC that Latin has wrought on my English writing style.
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Sorry the Catalogue of Ships is cool actually and probably went hard af during recitations at panhellenic events.
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“What do you do to address the needs of heritage speakers in your classroom?”. If a child walks into my room speaking fluent Latin I’m drawing a salt circle around them and calling a priest.
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Cicero Generationis Z adorans senatum: O patres conskibidi,.
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For how FUCKING long, Catilina, do you intend to abuse our patience?.
You get to add the "F word" into a line of literature. What do you choose?.
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The thing about these that always make me lmao is like… have you ever driven through a wealthy neighborhood? Every other McMansion looks like this and they’re all immensely tacky.
What is taking us back from building like this again?
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It’s sometimes striking to me how much is lost upon modern readers of Latin poetry because we don’t live in an agricultural society anymore.
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Honestly it’s kind of a relief that Aristotle’s treatise on comedy is lost because I absolutely would not have been able to bear the kind of insufferable people and “think” pieces that it would breed.
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It rules so much that that library at Herculaneum is filled with that one second-rate Epicurean philosopher. That’s like if 2000 years from now, all archaeologists have about late-republican American culture were Adam Sandler movies.
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The effect of the Latin language on my English writing is pronounced and -I must presume- quite unwelcome to the poor recipients of my emails.
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Ik this is half joking, but there really is a jarring amount of censorship (of varying intentionality) between even the most Classical of texts and what is brought into translation. Eg, Marathus, Tibullus’ male paramour, is entirely left out of his Encyclopedia Britannica entry.
I see a lot of people saying 'what use is Latin?'.The answer is simple: You still can't easily find English translations of the filthiest of Martial's epigrams.
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“Patro suo”??? How could the Romans ever expect their students to learn Latin when they’re making such obvious errors 🙄
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Studying Classics was probably the worst thing I could’ve done for my humanism because now I have to work all day. If I had a degree in spreadsheets, I could spend all day reading at my fake email job.
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Very cool chart with the Oath of Strausbourg in various historical dialects of Latin
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Making the rhapsode sing 30-second bits of different epic poems while I eat my piece of the hekatomb.
in ancient greece the closest you could get to scrolling tiktok was rotating a urn with a story on it for like an hour or two.
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Just got an official count from my dept chair. Next year, Latin 2 will be one of the largest classes at my school. When I was hired 2 years ago, we did not have a Latin 3 class and only one person in Latin 4.
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Yesterday on discord someone asked why the far right loves Marcus Aurelius, and it gave me a chance to organize my thoughts. I figure someone here might appreciate reading it.
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Marx being a μέν… δέ… girlie is beautiful, to me.
marx loves the expression “on the one hand … on the other hand …” — imagine what beautiful trialectics would result if people had three hands instead.
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GUYS WE MADE A DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS PODCAST IN LATIN!!.
Sumus ALEA IACTA EST, D&D acroama!. 🎲🎭Magister Ludi: @toutovlepo.🎻🎶Canticulus: @fireyarc .🍃🐅Cimbris: @FoundnAntiquity .🧟🪄Corion: @AnteronXXV .🗡️🥷Sulpicia: @caerulia . Subscribete! Novi episodi Diebus Solis edentur ⬇️
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It's 🌲MARCH🌲 1ST BITCHES👄! U KNOW WHAT DAT MEAN👌🏻 ITS THE 💦🎉ANNIVERSARY🎉💦 OF EMPEROR🙏🏻 DIOCLETIAN👨🏾 APPOINTING CONSTANTIUS CHLORUS👨🏻 AND GALERIUS👨🏼 AS CAESARS🍆🍑😫, REPRESENTING DAT SHIFT😂😂 TO THE 🙏🏻MF🙏🏻 ROMAN💯 TETRARCHY👌🏻🍆! 😫👅💦CLICC DAT MF SHIT😂😂.
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Ancient Greek historian: [states the broad consensus on Greek military history]. The weirdest freaks on this site:
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A joke about Cicero, which could have made people laugh in another time back before our dear republic was ASSAILED as it is, here, in front of Jupiter Stator and the People of Rome, no less(!), with all my material having been gathered and my nerves cooled, so that others will la.
I had a joke about Vergil. Give me another day, I'll revise it a bit more.
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@hausofdecline Fun fact ‘Patrare’ is also the word used in the vulgate for when God creates the world
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I will never ever forget the time in college some frat bro was trying to flex on me by saying his favorite Greek author is Socrates.
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QRT this tweet with something in your drafts (please).
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