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Latin and Ancient Greek remain alive! open.substack.com/pub/oxomensis/… Note: If you are aware of any content produced in Latin or Ancient Greek last month, please let me know so it can be included.

@RImperatrix @edumontenegrot Derecho*

@RImperatrix @edumontenegrot Jus soli* (del suelo). Jus solis sería derechos del sol.

Esto lo dice el Código Civil vigente.

@elasterra Citó Latíné loquéris! 😃

@Alvarus_lat Minime. In dies loquar...Spero.

@oxomensis Assimil 😍

@Alvarus_lat — Cito latine loqueris. — Lingua latina difficilis est. — Minime! Lingua latina difficilis non est. — Recte dicis, sed Roma non Uno die ædificata est.

@johnbyronkuhner @BrianDu04700318 Conatus sum adire, sed sacellum renovatur, mox iterum conabor.

@Alvarus_lat @BrianDu04700318 Placeat, si hic imagines addideris...

Last night being New Year’s Eve’s Eve we went to visit the lovely Ermita de S. Antonio de la Florida where we viewed Goya’s frescoes & his tomb with a Latin inscription. We then stepped up to the Royal Palace & Cathedral. Drinks & Tapas concluded a splendid night in Madrid.

Classics bros and interested parties: HUP is having a sale on new and selected old Loebs. 25% off, ends on Tuesday. Link in below; build your library!

Ut opínor, ad métam véní. Omnés áctiónés, omnia quæ facienda erant perfécí… sed lassus sum.

Corónidem impónimus trimestrí in officíná et multa sunt facienda, sat temporis vix est et anguor.

Sunt hominés ingeniósissimí et élegantés.

Hí cancellí Japónicí mihi valde placent

@oxomensis Pulchræ notæ Tiróniánæ.

annotationes quasdam ex lectionibus textuum philosophicorum Latinorum reperi (die XVII Augusti MMXX)

For a little reading experiment + fun, I’ve been (re)rereading Platonic dialogues in the Iamblichean curriculum order, which I believe also follows the sequence of the 12 labors of Hercules. See below. Imagine each dialogue as undertaking a “labor” of a certain kind, following the labors of Hercules. As a reader, you are not reading “about” a subject, but you are to undertake that very labor itself as it is framed and presents itself in the reading and sorting through of the dialogue. I’m reading it over a calendar year - from new moon to new moon, to get off the calendar and back to the firmament. I have a little time left until the next new moon in December to finish Gorgias, which would map onto the Labor of the Hydra. 1. Alcibiades I = Nemean Lion Confronting ignorance and achieving self-knowledge; slaying the invulnerable beast of self-deception? 2. Gorgias = Lernaean Hydra Cutting down multiplying sophistic arguments; each refuted head grows two more? 3. Phaedo = Ceryneian Hind Pursuing the sacred, elusive soul; a year-long chase for something that cannot be killed? 4. Cratylus = Erymanthian Boar Capturing the wild beast of language; naming and its power? 5. Theaetetus = Augean Stables Cleansing false opinions about knowledge; intellectual purification? 6. Sophist = Stymphalian Birds Driving away sophistic confusion with dialectical tools, the method of division? 7. Statesman = Cretan Bull Mastering the powerful forces of governance? 8. Phaedrus = Mares of Diomedes Taming the man-eating horses of passion; the chariot allegory made mythic? 9. Symposium = Belt of Hippolyta The quest for beauty and the feminine divine; Diotima’s wisdom as the prize? 10. Philebus = Cattle of Geryon Complex synthesis; herding pleasure, knowledge, and measure from the three-bodied monster? 11. Timaeus = Apples of the Hesperides Cosmic knowledge at the world’s edge; the golden fruit of cosmological understanding? 12. Parmenides = Capturing Cerberus Descent into dialectic’s underworld; confronting the One and returning with ineffable knowledge.​​​​ There’s supposed to be an “ascent” here of some kind, but my suspicion is that the only ascent for a guy like myself is - maybe, if I’m lucky - an ascent out of the Second Cave of History and Mathematical Physics *up to* the first Cave where the fundamental questions are.

One of the best public art projects I've seen. Grim park shelter turned into glorious roman-style mosaic menagerie, by the Hackney Mosaic Project.

Non omnia in interrete leguntur! Adhuc tempus est subnotandi: fundatiomelissa.org/periodicum.html

@oxomensis Nón sólum, sed etiam distinguendum est inter æ, ae, āe, aē, āē, et cétera.

non intellego cur quidam littera “j” non utantur, quamquam “v” adhibeant. num hæc aliqua traditio semiramista est?