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responsa
Answers.Roy has left several comments. They are clearly intended to be funny. Since I am sure that only the most audacious (read: bored) DeGrypis readers venture into comments, I will answer them...
View Articlelinguae antiquae discendae sunt?
Must classical languages be studied?Via RogueClassicism, some kid from Columbia presents the case for a classical language requirement.It starts of well enough. There is definitely substance to the...
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frustra...
In vain...I blog substantively. Nearly half the visitors to this blog over the last two days have been preteens/creepsters looking for the Sailor Moon pictures I included in this post.Should I add...
View ArticleMars laudetur!
Let Mars be praised!Campus Mawrtius does not post often. That is unfortunate. Today's subject of inquiry is close to my heart--How to be a Classical Philologist. D reads Laurand's Manuel des études...
View ArticleLost explicatum
Lost explained.Chris Jones notes a Latin exchange between two characters on tonight's episode:Just when I least expect it, this evening’s episode of the ABC Series Lost features characters speaking...
View Articlealea iacta est
The die is cast.*Via Newsvine, a comparison of the passing of the most recent economic stimulus bill...with Caesar crossing the Rubicon:It was in the winter of 49 BC that Julius Caesar lead his armies...
View Articleσυλλογισμός
A deductive argument.And, what is worse, the reader often shares the writer's prejudices, and is far too well pleased with his conclusions to examine either his premises or his reasoning. Stand on a...
View Articleego, arbiter
I, judge.Over at The Worst Ever, I wrote a guest review of Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
View ArticleQuidcumque nobis Romani fecere?
What have the Romans ever done for us?The reminder of this classic clip comes via Chris Blattman.
View Articlealienus in terra aliena
Stranger in a Strange Land.Not long ago, Brett and I finished reading Robert Heinlein's 1961 sci-fi classic Stranger in a Strange Land. Amidst the general fantastic silliness, the untranslated Martian...
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saevus...Boreas?
Savage...Boreas?Yesterday, the ferocious winds that laid waste to the greater East Brunswick area led to calamity for AlmostWorthKnowing's Abe Tran. As he documents here, his car suffered the...
View ArticleQuid est in nomine bestiarum?
What is in the name of animals?Language Log has an interesting post concerning the formation of scientific nomenclatures which are named in honor of those who discovered them. Sally Thomason wonders...
View Articlequaestio publica
A public poll.If someone came up to you in the street and said "Isn't it paradoxical that the Catullan Martial is not a neoteric Martial?" would you know what he/she meant?Well...would you?
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in nomine Patris et Filii et...huh?
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the...huh?XKCD(via Brad DeLong)
View ArticleQuis est Martialis 'malignus interpres'?
Who is Martial's 'malignus interpres'?The mysterious malignus interpres has been received as an unwelcome intruder to Martial’s preface; he occupies vital space—the traditional domain of a declaration...
View Articlehoc adfigere cunctabam...
I have been delaying posting this...for fear of it being adopted as a focal point in the ever-eloquent conservative argument against government stimulus.The Fed's recent announcement (link with...
View Article'malignus interpres' redux
I have just put up an updated version of my paper on Martial's malignus interpres. The Scribd introduction below:This paper undertakes an investigation of the oft-neglected 'malignus interpres' who...
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Ω Σωkρατη!
O Socrates!Kudos to Abe for blogging this excellent meme. The entire collection is here.And the words "meme" and "kudos" are more or less (less or more, really) directly from Greek.(Update: My favorite.)
View Articlemutetur et resurgat
May it be changed and rise again.My long absence from blogging has been no accident. I found the rigidity of this blog’s self-imposed form and function off-putting, and was thus disinclined from using...
View ArticleThe Italo-Celtic Hypothesis
As I mentioned in the last post, I wrote a series of short papers--essentially exercises in comprehension and mental processing. The first concerns the proposed unity of the Celtic and Italic branches...
View ArticleThe Wicked Stepmother
We are all familiar with the wicked stepmother character in fairy-tales (Cinderella, etc.). While the Brothers Grimm, those famous collectors of tales (and linguists!), surely had some hand in it, this...
View ArticleHuh?
You all are watching football, because that's the only good thing to do on a Sunday afternoon (It sure beats reading Tacitus, at least). Therefore, you probably just saw the NCIS episode teaser. And...
View ArticleWhat's in a paper, anyway?
Does it seem strange to non-classicists that this bizarre, five line passage (from Tacitus'Agricola, chapter 12) can serve as the basis for a 20-some page paper? Well, it does to me anyway:fert...
View ArticleYou are now my unfriend
Actually, that would be a new coinage. I don't believe that the adjectival nominal form has made it into the dictionary yet, but the verb "to unfriend" has been announced as Oxford's Word of the Year...
View Article'A' faciendum
The 'A' must be madeApparently, approximately 3/5--a distinct majority--of my students believe that they 'make' their grades, e.g. "I made an 'A' on that exam."Out of construction paper? Thin air? It...
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