Ben Johnson

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Ben Johnson

@latintutorial

Maine Latin Teacher, YouTuber @latintutorial, 2025 Penobscot County Teacher of the Year, 2026 Maine Teacher of the Year Finalist. Check out https://t.co/S5Jy0Ai63a!

Maine (he, him, his) Entrou em Ağustos 2011

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·19 Oca

If you head over to LatinTutorial.com right now, you'll notice a brand new look that's been my big focus over the last few years. It's still in a beta preview because who knows what bugs exist until a lot of people hit my code and servers. 1/15

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·13 May

@veriloquia @DAMendelsohnNYC Aeneas *is* the anti-Odysseus, especially in his personality.

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M. Terentius Varro@veriloquia·13 May

@DAMendelsohnNYC Vergil, I think, missed on this point (multum … iactatus), but Aeneas is a bit wanting on the personality side of things.

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Daniel Mendelsohn@DAMendelsohnNYC·13 May

Night thoughts on “polytropos,” 1: The syntax of the Greek suggests that the relative clause (“who greatly wandered…”) that follows this adjective is intended as a gloss on it. Hence the translation of p should be a word(s) that describes his route as well as his personality.

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Louise🔸@LeRoyDesCimes·4 Nis

The Epic of Gilgamesh is remarkable in that it's a 4,000-year-old text but it gets new content faster than ASOIAF

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·23 Mar

Kind of sheds new light on the Aeneid too.

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·20 Eki

Working on a new activity for latintutorial.com. 🤔

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·27 Eyl

The Maine DOE visited my school yesterday for the final round of the Maine Teacher of the Year. I couldn't have asked for a better day. mainedoenews.net/2025/09/26/a-d…

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·7 Ağu

@piniferalittera I think big rivers having seven mouths is a trope. Hardie suggests that the Romans didn’t even know of the Ganges delta during V’s time, and suggests the amnes are tributaries.

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Pinifera@piniferalittera·5 Ağu

While translating Aeneid 9, I stumbled on a funny old passage (ll. 30-31) Ceu septem surgens sedatis amnibus altus in tacitum Ganges I *think Vergil's confusing the Nile for the Ganges here, as the Nile is mentioned in the very same line? Could be wrong, hopefully I'm not a fool

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Classical Studies Memes@CSMFHT·25 Eki

It's even funnier because it should be *them* not *they* lol

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Armand D'Angour@ArmandDAngour·22 Eki

43 BC: Marcus Tullius Cicero est omnis divisus in partes tres, quarum una caput est, alia truncus, tertia manus… {Rather macabre. Sorry).

Armand D'Angour@ArmandDAngour

Gaius Julius Caesar est omnis divisus in partes tres.

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·18 Eki

@BretDevereaux Pliny and Trajan use “aquae ductus” in their Book 10 exchange (which every AP Latin student will soon read).

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@BretDevereaux·18 Eki

And if you're asking, 'why not call it a 'malaquaductus'' - I've never looked this up but my sense is that 'aqueduct' is a modern coinage and Latin tends to instead use 'decursus' ('a descent, downward run') or just 'aqua' ('water').

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@BretDevereaux·18 Eki

As an aside, since I'm back to it with the latest update, if you are the sort who enjoys chill builder games with a touch of light engineering, you should check out Timberborn. I think there's still a few days before it price-hikes (as it gets closer to leaving Early Access).

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Maia Lee-Chin@maialeechin·30 Ağu

I am so thrilled about the publication of my first book: "Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases"! This project has been a labor of love. It combines my passion for Ancient Roman literature with beautiful illustrations by Marta Bertello. maialeechin.com/book/et-cetera/

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·17 Ağu

@EllenLeePhD @lenofi Since I learned from Wheelock’s, my videos almost perfectly line up with that sequence.

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Lozza Lizza@lenofi·17 Ağu

📢 EXCELLENT LATIN RESOURCE brush up like me, or take your own journey!

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Armand D'Angour@ArmandDAngour·21 Haz

Yes. I learned Fortran and studied Latin in 1973-4. One of them is now effectively a dead language, the other provides constant inspiration!

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·6 Haz

@MagisterConway @DCComm In my own limited database (just a few works), I have multitudo about 1.5x as frequent as turba.

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Dan Conway@MagisterConway·6 Haz

.@DCComm Question about the Latin core vocab: I was looking into the relative frequency of "turba" (#323) vs. "multitudo" (#733). But looking at the corpus data "multitudo" seems to have a slight edge. Any idea why this could be the case?

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Classics/TPE at Castle Court Prep@CastleCourtClas·20 May

Yr7 Latinists have just had a complete ‘Geek-Out’ over tenses (thanks to @latintutorial - cheers, Ben!). So many links made to other languages they know…. #CastleCourtCurious 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇰 🇮🇳 🇮🇹 🇩🇪

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·18 May

@sentantiq My students often think this too

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sententiae antiquae@sentantiq·18 May

Idk Surprising no one offed him sooner

Michael McGill 🏛@mcgillmd921

The proscription of Cicero was one of the most grisly and tragic events of the late Roman Republic. Why was Cicero, a former Consul and respected member of Roman politics, selected to be proscribed? Let's do a deep dive into the proscription of Cicero. /Thread 🧵

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Classical Studies Memes@CSMFHT·17 May

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Trigger a whole Fanbase using this .

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·15 May

PTC = Penobscot Theatre Company, my local professional theater group. The most recent show they did was Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play, which shows the making of myth in a modern context. Maybe the best thing I've seen on stage anywhere.

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·15 May

So if you have even just a few dollars (or equivalent) to donate, head on over to penobscottheatre.org/donate/ and do your part to make sure my own personal favorite arts organization gets the support they need. And be sure to put my name in the "In Honor Of" field so I get credit!

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·15 May

Not Latin related, but this is near and dear to my heart. It's @PTCtheatre's Giving Day today. You may not be near Bangor, Maine, to enjoy any of the amazing performances on our local stage, but supporting the arts, especially local ones, is a universal act that betters society.

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Ben Johnson@latintutorial·8 May

@TraffordLj This is also my complaint with arguments like this, or the "bread and circuses" folk who don't realize the time period of the quote they are referencing!

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LJ Trafford@TraffordLj·7 May

And yet Rome shortly thereafter entered one of it's most stable, prosperous periods for a hundred years.

DogeDesigner@cb_doge

"Low birth rate was a problem in Rome in 50 BC. The same is true of Ancient Greece." Low Birth Rate = Decline of Civilization

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