Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Cold Moon<\/p>\n
Did something today I’ve not done in many years, decades, certainly not this millennium.\u00a0 I conjugated verbs.\u00a0 Latin verbs.<\/p>\n
Laudare (to praise)<\/p>\n
Laudo\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Laudamus<\/p>\n
Laudas\u00a0\u00a0 Laudatis<\/p>\n
Laudat\u00a0\u00a0 Laudant<\/p>\n
What do you know?\u00a0 Next is translating some sentences.\u00a0 Kate’s already started on that.\u00a0 I’m saving it till tomorrow.\u00a0 On Thursday we have our first phone call with the tutor.<\/p>\n
This is, for me, an effort with two purposes.\u00a0 First, I need some intellectual rigor in my life.\u00a0 The docent class finished almost three years ago and my other recent immersions:\u00a0 astronomy and Jungian thought have receded even further.\u00a0 Rather than artificial brain exercise, I prefer to learn something useful.\u00a0 Second, I want to read certain authors in their original Latin:\u00a0 Ovid, first, but Tacitus and Horace, too, among others.\u00a0 Julian the Apostate.\u00a0 That goal lies further down this ancientrail, but the trail leads there.<\/p>\n
Wrote more on the novel, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Cold Moon Did something today I’ve not done in many years, decades, certainly not this millennium.\u00a0 I conjugated verbs.\u00a0 Latin verbs. Laudare (to praise) Laudo\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Laudamus Laudas\u00a0\u00a0 Laudatis Laudat\u00a0\u00a0 Laudant What do you know?\u00a0 Next is translating some sentences.\u00a0 Kate’s already started on that.\u00a0 I’m saving it till tomorrow.\u00a0 On Thursday we have … Continue reading Veni, Vidi but no Vici<\/span>