Basically what the title states. I’ve invested so much time into Latin learning; finished Familia Romana; got through the first few chapters of Roma Aeterna; did many of the exercises and pensums; and still, I cannot pick up books that people say I should be able to read by now and understand them even a bit. Many have said you should be fine (vocabulary not wanting) to begin De Bello Gallico, and I can’t even understand it; it all just seems so complicated. I understand all the grammatical concepts taught by FR (deponent verbs, gerunds, all conjugations and tenses, participles, subjunctive, etc.), and yet when I pick up even a medieval scholastic text, that’s allegedly easy Latin, I can’t even understand it—it’s like I learned nothing. I can understand easily all of Familia Romana, and have gotten through it fairly quickly, but it’s almost like knowing it did not even help at all in being able to read authentic Latin. Idk if I am just complaining or being childish, but it sucks how I’ve invested so much time and energy into learning Latin, only to get poor ROI (return on investment) with it. I just feel defeated yall. I feel like I’ve fallen behind and am pushing through an invincible wall that does not want to break.

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Below is a beautiful Latin sermon on Mary's pondering heart by St. Laurence Justinian.

There is a new rosary devotion to Mary's pondering heart called the Florilegium Cordis Conferentis. It is a scriptural rosary with a verse from the Nova Vulgata for each Ave—just like the Angelus—taken from the Church's Liturgia Horarum. This sermon is taken from the website.
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Conferente secum Maria
de omnibus quae legendo, audiendo, videndo, cognoverat, 
o quantum crescebat in fide, augebatur meritis,
sapientia illustrabatur 
magis magisque caritatis cremabuatur incendio! 
Ex redivia siquidem sacramentorum caelestium 
reseratione promota, 
complebatur laetitia, Spiritu fecundabatur nimium, 
dirigebatur in Deum, 
et humilis custodiebatur in se. 
Tales prorsus divinae gratiae sunt profectus 
ut de imis elevent ad summa, 
et de claritate in claritatem transforment. 

Beata plane mens Vrginis, 
quae per inhabitantem Spiritum ac magisterium, 
Verbi Dei semper in omnibus parebat imperio. 
Non sensu proprio, non suo ducebatur arbitrio; 
sed quod intus sapientia innuebat ad fidem, 
foris hoc corporis ministerio peragebat. 

 Decebat utique divinam Sapientiam, 
quae sibi ad habitandum domum aedificabat Ecclesiae, 
ut de legis custodia, de purificatione mentis, 
de humilitatis norma, et de spirtali oblatione, 
Mariae sanctissimae medio uteretur. 

Ipsam tu, o fidelis anima, imitare. 

Ut enim spiritaliter purificeris 
et a delictorum valeas emundari contagiis, 
in templum cordis tui ingredere. 
Ibi affectum in cuntis quae agimus 
Deus potius attendit quam opus. 
Quamobrem, sive per contemplationis studium 
mente excedimus Deo atque vacamus, 
seu per virtutum incrementa et commendabilium negotiorum opera 
promximis nostris sobrii esse satagimus, 
id taliter perficiamus, 
ut tantum Christi caritas urgeat nos. 

Haec plane est spiritalis purificationis accepta oblatio, 
quae non in manufacto, sed in cordis persolvitur templo, 
in quod Dominus Christus gratanter ingreditur. 
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Ex sermonibus sancti Laurentii Iustiniani in Festo Purificationis, 
ad Officium lectionis, in Liturgia Horarum,
Sabbato Immaculati Cordis Beatae Mariae Virginis."

For other such ecclesiastical readings, search for the Latin website Novum Rosarium Florilegium

Hello !! I am currently working on a painting that is a contemporary translation of the classical art tradition of the Vanitas painting (which is a sub genre of the 'memento mori' tradition), and have a large book spine that I would like to put a relevant latin quote. Unfortunately I am VERY picky about this and it has to be absolutely perfect, but my knowledge of latin literature is limited and the quotes on websites are often more death focused. These are my current top contenders, and if you spot an error or a quote that is associated with something dicey PLEASE let me know !!! ( I have been googling my butt off trying to fact check)

"Vivere est Mori" (to live is to die)

"Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus" (we are but dust and shadow)

- this quote is my current favourite, as the working title of the body of work is " returning to the dust from which you were raised", so I felt it particularly fitting, although the poem it is from is perhaps not the most suitable.

"Vanitas Vanitatum, omnia vanitas" - (vanity of vanities, all is vanity) - this is almost too on the nose.

memento vivere is also under consideration !! but that feels too obvious.

Anyway, if you have read this far, I truly appreciate any and all ideas !! and if you would like more information on my project, feel free to read my essay on the concept here!

oh and here is the painting !! it isn't done yet but I am very excited nonetheless !!

I'm currently in high school and when we first started taking the latin class a few years ago, my teacher had us pick latin names, as I assume every language teacher has. She gave out a list and one immediately caught my eye. Now, even though she has said the correct version for a very long time, I and other people still choose to say Caseoh instead of Caeso.

(Edit: Caseoh is a streamer.)

Im a freshmen in highschool taking latin and we're about to go from 1st declension gender to 2nd declension gender and what does that even mean? Like what's the difference and how do you even tell if its 2nd or 1st and 1 more question for some reason in my school we dont learn the 6th latin case (vocative) I asked my latin teacher and he said its because it's not important is that true? And how do you guys remember so much latin endings im done for my memory is bad.

Hey everyone, I was thinking of making my own original latin phrase tattoo, the origin words that I choose is Saint (of) Decay, and I checked on google it supposed to be translated as Sancta Ruina (feminine which is luckily suiting since I’m an f lol), I wonder if this is grammatically correct? Thanks in advance

PS: but I also saw it works as translation for “holy ruin” or “divine collapse” which I still think sounds cool af, just wanna make sure the grammar is correct!

As a gift for someone I know who loves both Agatha Christie and Latin, I've been trying to find a translation of Agatha Christie's books into Latin, yet unfortunately I haven't found anything except supposed books on Amazon that were made by Google Translate. Hence, I wanted to ask if anyone here knows where I might find such. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hey, we’re planning to organise a treasure hunt for a 30th birthday and want to hide clues around the house: does this sentence make grammatical sense?

Quaerite ibi, ubi vestimenta manent, donec iterum munda et sicca sint.

Thanks!

The name in the last photo seemingly doesn’t appear on the title page, so I can’t with confidence date the title page inscriptions as 1733 also. However, my guess is the inscriptions are before 1733. The book is heavy annotated with numerous Latin passages and words. This is a miniature however, so everything is incredibly small and leaves little room for anything written to be legible especially on the pages full of text. This book is a censored version of the original edited by The Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuit Order/Jesuits. Published in Antwerp, which I believe at the time of this book’s year, 1749, was part of the Holy Roman Empire. It would be much appreciated if someone can clarify that claim as well.

Question for more experienced Latinists. I was trying to use the Hackett audio of LLPSI to help make sure my pronunciation is correct and I noticed neither audio seems to fit with the pronunciation guides I find online. For instance, their Ecclesiastical one says magnus like mag-noos not mon-yoos which is how I thought it was pronounced and their classical pronunciation pronounces Vs as Vs not like a W although I think that may be because it’s old so it might just be an earlier version of classical maybe? I also am a noob to Latin so I imagine I’m totally wrong but I don’t want to use it if it is going to give me bad habits. So my question is: how good are the Hackett recordings?

Context: Urania is talking about the wonders of the Sun and asking Aesculapius about the wonders of the body.

I'm having difficult with the paragraph above, maybe someone can help me. There's two parts I can't put syntatically together. That's how I see the whole text in a more direct order:

Caeterum, Sol tuus pater, oblectamentum rerum omnium degentium sub Lunae sphera, et fons perennis luminis necnon caloris, nuncupatus imago divinae intelligentiae Pythagoricis, et Socrati (Platone teste) filius visibilis dei, exoriens mane detersa caligine noctis , et, ubi atollitur, derepente illustrans universum hemisphaerium, et omnia modificans luce et radiis, necnon vi tacita, et motu, Peripateticis uti etiam Academicis, invitans quotidie homines insuper ad consuetas operas quasi de classico οὐρανόθεν, quid per Iovem (revoco verbum Aesculapi) de tota supellectile corporum humanorum expressissime mihi figurabit?

How can I relate the first part, full of participle presents referring to the Sun, in itallic, with the second part, in bold, beginning with "quid"? It seens odd to me. If the participles and "sol" were in the ablative I would interpret the first part in an adverbial sence, but since they aren't, I'm stuck.

Please, help me!

I have been studying for a while last year and this year. I have recently fully committed. I am utilizing LLPSI AND also reading Wheelock and studying grammar. I want to build a mobile app that could help learners drill the case declensions and verb conjugations inspired by the Ranieri Dowling Method. I only have so much right now completed but I am curious if anyone thinks there are specific study modes or drills that would be best for learning. Currently there are study modes for producing case endings as prompted, identification of cases for given displayed nouns, typing all the paradigm tables. Also a simple flashcard mode.

The app also includes and explanation of the method and reference material for nouns and adjectives so far. Intention is to expand into verbs pronouns/demonstratives. Then maybe some preposition memorization.

Context: I recently graduated from CompSci and love computer assisted language learning and have also studied linguistics to a great degree.

If you have any input, opinions, or recommendations I would greatly appreciate it! I can post screenshots in the comments if needed.

My question is about the -osus, -osa, -osum suffix, which means something like "full of" and is one of the ways to use nouns to create adjectives. It's very easy to use on first and second declension nouns, but I can't find any rules for using it with the other declensions, especially 3rd. Is the suffix usable with 3rd, 4th, or 5th declension nouns? If yes, how so? If not, is there an equivalent suffix usable with those declensions?

Conferamus in corde nostro glorias resurrectionis Domini,
conservatas pro nobis in corde Mariae, Matris Domini mei.
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PRIMO, Surrectus
Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum.
Rs. Adveniat regnum tuum, fiat voluntas tua …

Vs. 1  Mulieres quae cum ipso venerant de Galilaea viderunt quemadmodum positum erat corpus eius. * Revertentes paraverunt aromata et unguenta.  Ave Maria, ave Gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Rs. Benedicta tu …

Vs. 2  Prima autem sabbatorum, valde diluculo, venerunt ad monumentum, * portantes quae paraverant aromata.  Ave Maria, ave Gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Rs. Benedicta tu …

Vs. 3  Et invenerunt lapidem revolutum a monumento, * et ingressae, non invenerunt corpus Domini Iesu.  Ave Maria, ave Gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Rs. Benedicta tu …

Vs. 4  Et factum est dum mente haesitarent de isto, * ecce duo viri steterunt secus illas in veste fulgenti.   Ave Maria, ave Gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Rs. Benedicta tu …

Vs. 5  Cum timerent autem et declinarent vultus in terram, dixerunt ad illas: * Quid quaeritis viventem cum mortuis?  Ave Maria, ave Gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Rs. Benedicta tu …

Vs. 6  Non est hic, sed surrexit. Recordamini qualiter locutus est vobis, * dicens. Oportet Filium hominis tradi in manus hominum peccatorum, et crucifigi, et die tertia resurgere.  Ave Maria, ave Gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Rs. Benedicta tu …

Vs. 7  Et recordatae sunt verborum eius. * Et regressae a monumento, nuntiaverunt haec omnia illis Undecim et ceteris omnibus.  Ave Maria, ave Gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Rs. Benedicta tu …

Vs. 8  Erat autem Maria Magdalene et Ioanna et Maria Iacobi, et ceterae cum eis dicebant ad Apostolos haec. \ Et visa sunt ante illos sicut deliramentum verba ista, \ et non credebant illis.  Ave Maria, ave Gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Rs. Benedicta tu …

Vs. 9  Petrus autem surgens cucurrit ad monumentum, et procumbens videt linteamina sola. * Et rediit ad sua mirans quod factum fuerat.  Ave Maria, ave Gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Rs. Benedicta tu …

Vs. 10  Ego pono animam meam, ut iterum sumam eam: potestatem habeo ponendi eam, et iterum sumendi eam. * Hoc mandatum accepi a Patre meo.  Ave Maria, ave Gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Rs. Benedicta tu …

Vs. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto:
Apertum est templum Dei in caelo,
et signum magnum apparuit in caelo: *
Mulier amicta sole.

Rs. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto:
Vs. Et super caput eius corona stellarum duodecim. *
Rs. Mulier amicta sole.

Rs. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto: 

Vs. Apertum est templum Dei in caelo,
et signum magnum apparuit in caelo: * *
Rs. Mulier amicta sole.

So possessive forms that can also be written in the sentence structure in englice x of y vs y's x how does word order and such work?

For example one im working with someone on is nature's haromy or harmony of nature

I believe you could write it naturae harmonia or harmonia naturae but im not sure which is correct. (I think its the first one but i could be wrong)

Other things we are looking at are fire's tribute or tribute of fire i think would be Flammae tributum? (Or ignuae tributum? (But that feels wrong to look at so im not sure)

I'd like to practice numbers a bit, since it regularly comes up in spoken Latin contexts. Does anybody have something?

I'm drawing together a style of presenting Latin in a form inspired by retro gaming.

The study of Latin through inscriptions in particular presents a real, tangible experience of Latin which otherwise can appear excessively high-minded and impenetrable. I hope my pixel-art helps to rectify this view while making the language clear and accessible – without the risk of being buried in grammar!

Most epitaph inscriptions of the Imperial period included some variation of Dis Manibus - "to the deified spirits of the dead." We’re in the spooky season after all and so examining gravestones as primary sources of evidence is eerily appropriate…

Over the next few weeks – in the run up to Hallowe’en and my first video upload – I’ll be posting a few Latin quotes pertaining to the ‘manes’ in Roman thought. The deification of the dead as ‘manes’ or, ‘spirits’ that bore influence over the living was the dominant Roman view of death and the afterlife.

Please give me your impressions - I think there's still plenty of scope for originality even when the source material is thousands of years old!

‘hic manes, hic intra tecta tenebo’ (Silvae, 3.3.196)

“I will hold your manes here, here within the house” (translated by Charles W. King)

The quote above from Statius' Silvae comes from a collection of short poems offering consolations for the dead. While the ‘manes’ – spirits of the dead – were worshipped collectively at official festivals like the Parentalia, Statius provides an intimate glimpse into private occasions such as worshipping an individual person with perfumes and flowers at a household shrine despite the fact manes only exists as a plural noun.

In a longer translation for D. R. Shackleton Bailey, we read in the next line:

'hic manes, hic intra tecta tenebo. tu custos dominusque laris, tibi cuncta tuorum parebunt'

“Here I shall keep you spirit, within these walls. You shall be guardian and master of the hearth, all your folk shall obey you.”

The use of the second person singular in phrases like tu custos and tibi cuncta can only confirm the individuality of one, singular spirit that remains with an indelible force to guard and watch over the house.

Contrast this ghostly apparition with Tranio’s invention in the Mostellaria. Here (lines. 495-505), the deceased has allegedly remained to haunt the house precisely because they were denied their due rites after death. In both instances, the individual spirit of the dead persists regardless, either as a venerated protector of hearth and home or, as an invocation of duties that should have been paid to the dead but were violated…

Hello guys,

I've been grinding through the original fabulae faciles while having the steadman version aside for glossing. I'd like to know your opinions on the Ulysses section from those who've completed it before. How did you find this final section of the book. I just want to have an idea of what's in store for me. I'm currently at the lotus eaters part.

Yet another exception explained. It seems that the ablative form differs for each declension: puella, amico, turri, rege, manu, facie. In reality, it is all much simpler than it seems. The original ending of the ablative was -d: so we had puellad, amicod, turrid, manud, facied.

When the -d was dropped, the vowel of the stem was lengthened, except in stems beginning with a consonant. So the ablative does not have different endings: it is simply the stem without an ending.

There’s no need to learn the declensions by heart; you just need to understand them.

A GRAMMAR'S TALE: Understanding Latin instead of learning it by heart

I found this https://www.youtube.com/@Sagitta-lingualatina https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdlEvOZKGzsm1m5DseX0--w

hey guys I offered to make an insta for my schools JCL, and I have a few ideas, but I wanted to hear some ideas from the community! Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Copy of the post I made in r/asklinguists since it was suggested this is a better place to ask

By base colors I mean colors that are not considered a shade of other colors, for example "lilac" is a color in English but it's considered a shade of purple while pink is not considered a shade of red (in other languages it is). I recently fell down the rabbit hole of color term hierarchy and I'm wondering where latin was.

Note: I am aware that Latin, like any other language, has evolved over time, so if you have any knowledge about how it changed over time that would be even better.

I’ve been learning Latin in school for a long time, but I am unable to wrap my head around it.
I was out of school for a while about a year or 2 ago, missing a key part in learning it, and ever since, I haven’t been able to grasp the idea of the endings and how exactly they work.

It would be so much appreciated if anyone could explain the endings from the basics up to gcse or even just recommend somewhere that would help me.
Thank you :)

I want to register my kids for JCL and I STILL can't. It's October. Some states are running convention in a month. Does anyone have any more information about when the site will be finished and why it's taking so long? I have registered my account but that is still all that's really functional. I got an email a week ago about how I would be able to register my chapter "soon" but the page is still under construction.

I don't really expect things to happen fast in the classics world in general but it's still annoying and I'd love to fish for any tea anyone has on the whole thing. The old site seemed fine.