Originally posted by CGR
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One hears about his classical education and it sounds mighty impressive in action.
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He is still a complete dishonest lying turdOriginally posted by gradus View Post
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He probably took part in one of those schools Classical recitation competitions, and what one learns thoroughly at age 14 one tends to remember. I learned a chunk from Caesar's Gallic Wars (prose rather than verse) and still remember it - the most dramatic, arm-waving bit being, "Desilite," <stretches out arm, pointing down slightly> inquit, "milites, nisi vultis aquilam hostibus prodere. Ego certe (beats chest) meum reipublicae atque imperatori officium praestitero." Hoc cum magna voce <raises voice> dixisset … " et cetera … being the speech of the Roman standard-bearer doing his "once more into the breach, dear friends, once more …" bit. I also recited Lafontaine's Laboureur et ses enfants which I could probably still remember.
Thing about B. Johnson is that he never stops acting, putting on a humorous performance to entertain his doting public. Basically, he went to Eton and learnt Latin (sorry Greek).
One thing I did quite envy old H. Macmillan for was that he often read Latin poetry for pleasure. That's a cut above rote learning and I'd love to be able to do that (I couldn't understand what BJ was saying - sounded like Greek to me)
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I can recite some of my own poems... plus a bit of Shakespeare and a few lines of German poetry.Comment
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'His rebus gestis Ceasar in Gallum venit ... Gallum in tres partes divisum est' (or something like thatOriginally posted by Andy Freude View PostHe probably took part in one of those schools Classical recitation competitions, and what one learns thoroughly at age 14 one tends to remember. I learned a chunk from Caesar's Gallic Wars (prose rather than verse) and still remember it - the most dramatic, arm-waving bit being, "Desilite," <stretches out arm, pointing down slightly> inquit, "milites, nisi vultis aquilam hostibus prodere. Ego certe (beats chest) meum reipublicae atque imperatori officium praestitero." Hoc cum magna voce <raises voice> dixisset … " et cetera … being the speech of the Roman standard-bearer doing his "once more into the breach, dear friends, once more …" bit. I also recited Lafontaine's Laboureur et ses enfants which I could probably still remember.
Thing about B. Johnson is that he never stops acting, putting on a humorous performance to entertain his doting public. Basically, he went to Eton and learnt Latin (sorry Greek).
One thing I did quite envy old H. Macmillan for was that he often read Latin poetry for pleasure. That's a cut above rote learning and I'd love to be able to do that (I couldn't understand what BJ was saying - sounded like Greek to me)
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Caesar sic in omnibus, Brutus sic inat.Originally posted by Accidental
[ ... . According to Nigel Molesworth (1953), 'all latin masters hav one joke' and that's it. Molesworth also notes that 'a good roare of larffter will cut the leson by two minits six seconds or half a gender rhyme' ]
And talking of omnibi - do we remember :
"What is that that roareth thus?
Can it be a motor bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat motorem bum.
Implet in the Corn and High
Terror me motoris bi.
Bo motori clamitabo
Ne motore caedar a bo.
Dative be or ablative,
So thou only let us live.
Whither shall thy victims flee?
Spare us, spare us, motor be!
Thus I sang, and still anigh
Came in hordes motores bi
Et complebant omne forum
Copia motorum borum.
How shall others live like us,
Cincti bis motoribus?
Domine, defende nos
Contra hos motores bos!"Comment
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Well, I went to a comprehensive and much later on taught myself ancient Greek so I can't say I'm particularly impressed by a classically educated toff spouting it (with a ridiculous accent be it said).Comment
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My sentiments too, although I might have expressed it slightly differently. I would also prefer that he directs his brain cells to the job he's supposed to be doing - although that assumes he has enough available, and that he has any idea of what needs doing.Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostComment
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ἀποθνήσκω is one word I remember - plus of course λυωOriginally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
I can't say I'm impressed either, or with the thought processes which might reside or even escape from said brain (not yours ...). I would be delighted to be wrong - but I fear I'm not. Time - probably far too much - will tell.
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I know some with AABBA rhyming, which are in anapesic meter.Originally posted by Joseph K View PostComment
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Few principles and few policies. Watch out for the NDB, UI and ISc coming our way!Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostComment
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