#44

bamos?

#45

SALVE MAGISTRA!

#46

They will never catch him now!

#47

There’s a roman werewolf story where the werewolf strips his clothes off under the moon and then pisses in a circle round himself to turn into a wolf. They’ve taken that bit out of the story these days.

#48

I’m in the weird position of actually wishing I’d paid more attention to latin when I was in school. Didn’t think I’d need it for ‘real life’ (if that’s what I am in)
Pestis! Furcifer!

#49

This has absolutely done me

#51

Did Latin GCSE. A fucking *
Liked those Ecce Romani books. Can remember absolutely nothing

#52

My Latin A-level was part of the reason I got rejected from my first and second choices of uni (had my grades underpredicted) but it was good fun. Totally useless, obviously, but way easier to learn than French. Really fancied my A-level teacher - we made him a card in Latin after our last lesson and he sneered at how shit our grammar was. :heart:

We had to translate a short Catullus excerpt in one of my lessons in year 13 teaching young women that they should shag/marry old men, so at the end of the lesson (last of the day) I thought it would be hilarious to announce to the (small) class that I was “going to the nursing home to bag myself a grandad” [direct quote]. Thought it would make the others laugh. Nope, horrified silence all round and a disgusted look from the teacher I fancied.

#53

It got a laugh from me, if that’s any consolation

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#54

Never studied it but can understand bits of it because I can speak Spanish.

#55

my school teacher tried to skim over the dirty bits in Catullus. Seeing as Catullus is about ⅓ sex, ⅓ insults, the other ⅓ pining, she made the poems sound really weird

#56

CERBERUS EST CANIS

#57

I’m sure I’ve said before but when La Rochelle turned out to be a real place I was amazed.

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#58

Frequently went to the zoo there as a kid. Once there was a french man nochalantly frenching about the place with a baguette sticking out of his backpack, and a giraffe leant down and hoovered the baguette up and swallowed it in one go.

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#59

Excellent!

#60

cerberus est mortuus. Caecilius et suus canis in Pompeii expiraverunt.

#61

Loved Latin at school, almost did a Higher in it but that would’ve been bonkers. We used the Ecce Romani books too.

Only thing I can remember is ‘Odi et amo. Quare ed faciam, fortasse requiris? Nescio, sed fiori et excrucior.’

Which is about the biggest Dis quote ever.

*some of the spelling might be a bit dodgy there.

#62

That’s the poem:

This is the woman it’s usually assumed it’s about. She was constantly up in court for being scandalous.

#63

She sounds like a real treat!

#64

Hey if you want to write large amounts of poems about dramatic heartbreak, you can’t go out with anyone too well adjusted.