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February 2008 Blog Posts (23)

Fable of the Day: De accipitribus et columbis

Title: De accipitribus inter se inimicis quos columbae pacaverant: About the hawks who were enemies whom the doves pacified, by Abstemius

Latin Text:

Accipitres invicem inimici quotidie decertabant, suisque odiis occupati, alias aves minime infestabant. Columbae illorum vicem dolentes, eos missis legatis composuere. Sed illi, ubi inter se amici effecti sunt, ceteras… Continue

Added by Laura Gibbs on February 4, 2008 at 8:07pm — No Comments

eClassics Members Selected for Venice Conference on Classics Pedagogy

Dr. Lisa St. Louis and Dr. Shawn Graham, both eClassics members as well as teachers at Robert Welch University, have had their proposal selected for the Meeting the Challenge conference to be held this summer in Venice, Italy. To learn more about their proposal and the conference, click here.

Please join me in extending a warm congratulations to both Lisa and Shawn who are doing truly marvelous things in… Continue

Added by Andrew Reinhard on February 4, 2008 at 4:08pm — 1 Comment

Schola again

Well,
Schola certainly seems to have got off to a flying start - 48 hours later, many letters, comments and postings have been made, all in Latin. There are now 33 members.
My headache now is to translate the huge language file for the site into Latin - I've done 5% so far, enough to give the site a Latin feel.

Added by Latinum Institute on February 2, 2008 at 2:37pm — 3 Comments