Winter Waxing Cold Moon
Did something today I’ve not done in many years, decades, certainly not this millennium. I conjugated verbs. Latin verbs.
Laudare (to praise)
Laudo Laudamus
Laudas Laudatis
Laudat Laudant
What do you know? Next is translating some sentences. Kate’s already started on that. I’m saving it till tomorrow. On Thursday we have our first phone call with the tutor.
This is, for me, an effort with two purposes. First, I need some intellectual rigor in my life. The docent class finished almost three years ago and my other recent immersions: astronomy and Jungian thought have receded even further. Rather than artificial brain exercise, I prefer to learn something useful. Second, I want to read certain authors in their original Latin: Ovid, first, but Tacitus and Horace, too, among others. Julian the Apostate. That goal lies further down this ancientrail, but the trail leads there.
Wrote more on the novel, too.
