Latin Poetry Podcast

Episodes

1. 81

   Penelope to Odysseus, part 3 (Ovid, Heroides 1.75-116)

   http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/06/Ovid-Heroides-1-podcast-3.mp3 This is the third and last episode on Heroides 1. If you love Ovid’s Heroides, consider joining Chun Liu (Professor of Comparative Literature at Peking University) and me at the Dickinson Summer Latin...

   Jun 3, 2020

   19m
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   Penelope to Odysseus part 2 (Ovid, Heroides 1.37-74)

   http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/05/Ovid-Heroides-1-podcast-2.mp3 If you love Ovid’s Heroides, consider joining Chun Liu (Professor of Comparative Literature at Peking University) and me at the Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop (online this year), July 15-20, 2020....

   May 26, 2020

   15m
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   Penelope to Odysseus part 1 (Ovid, Heroides 1.1-36)

   http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/05/Ovid-Heroides-1-podcast-1.mp3 Penelope (ca. 1868) by Charles-François Marchal. Penelope is not represented as the legendary wife of Odysseus but as a contemporary woman, dutifully engaged in needlework as she dreams about her husband,...

   May 23, 2020

   14m
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   Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy 1.P4

   http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/04/Boethius-Consol.-Phil.-1.4-Quiquis-composito.mp3 Philosophy Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts to Boethius. Coëtivy Master (French, active about 1450 – 1485). Source: Getty Museum Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius rose to high honors...

   Apr 30, 2020

   17m
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   Hecuba Tiger Queen

   http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/04/tigers.mp3 Ovid on the Metamorphoses compares Hecuba to a lioness, not a tigress, but as I discuss based on Pliny and Valerius Flaccus, the two animals were grouped together in the Roman mind under the heading of savage mothers who get...

   Apr 1, 2020

   11m
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   Catullus and Martial on Unguents

   http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2019/12/Catullus-and-Martial-on-unguents.mp3 Catullus 13 (text: G.P. Goold, 1983, via PHI) Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me paucis, si tibi di favent, diebus, si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam cenam, non sine candida puella et vino et…

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   Dec 2, 2019

   17m
7. 75

   Seneca, Medea 895-910

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   Nov 24, 2019

   16m
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   J.K. Rowling and Peter Needham: Distribuens Petasus

   http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2019/11/Needham_Distribuens-Petasus.mp3 J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997) has a delightful Latin version, Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (2003), by Peter Needham. Needham taught Classics at Eton for over thirty...

   Nov 17, 2019

   10m
9. 73

   Reynard and the Side of Bacon (Ysengrimus 1.269-288)

   http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2019/11/Ysengimus-1.269-288.mp3 Ysengrimus is a Latin mock epic, an anthropomorphic series of fables written in 1148 or 1149 in Latin elegiac couplets. Its chief character is Isengrin the Wolf; the plot describes how the trickster figure…

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   Nov 11, 2019

   10m
10. 72

    Claudian on Mules (De Mulabus Gallicis)

    Unidentified man with mule carrying baskets of food. Italy, 1870s. Source: J. Paul Getty Museum http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2019/11/Claudian-De-mulabus.mp3 Claudian (ca. 370-ca.404 AD) is best known for his political poetry (he was associated with the court of the Roman...

    Nov 4, 2019

    16m
11. 71

    Wish to Be What You Are (Martial, Epigrams 10.47)

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    Sep 25, 2012

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12. 70

    Horace’s Lyric Meters 2: Sapphic (Odes 1.2)

    This is the second in a series dealing with Horace’s lyric meters. The previous installment covered Asclepiadeans. This one discusses the Sapphic stanza, so named because of its association with Sappho, the famous Greek lyric poet. Odes 1.2 is summarized as follows by Nisbet and Hubbard: God has...

    Jan 24, 2012
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    Horace’s lyric meters: Asclepiadeans (Odes 1.1)

    Herewith a re-do of a poem I have done on an earlier podcast, this time with special attention to the meter. It is part of a series on Horace’s lyric meters. This installment focuses on a meter that scholars call variously Asclepiads, asclepiadeans, the First Asclepiad, and the Lesser Asclepiad....

    Jan 20, 2012
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    Not Going Back There (Phaedrus, Fables 1.18)

    Phaedrus Fables 1.18 Nemo libenter recolit qui laesit locum. Instante partu mulier actis mensibus humi iacebat flebilis gemitus ciens. Vir est hortatus, corpus lecto reciperet, onus naturae melius quo deponeret. “Minime”, inquit, “illo posse confido loco malum finiri, quo conceptum est initio.”...

    Sep 22, 2011
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    The Fall of Rome

    “De mutata Romae fortuna,” incerti auctoris, ed. N. E. Lemaire, Poetae Latini Minores vol. 4 (Paris, 1825), pp. 537-538. Romulus Augustulus Deposed De mutata Romae fortuna Nobilibus quondam fueras cōnstructa patrōnīs subdita nunc servis, heu, male Roma tuis. Deseruere tui tanto te tempore reges;...

    Jul 22, 2011
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    The Wrath of Iarbas (Vergil, Aeneid 4.196-218)

    The Wrath of Iarbas protinus ad regem cursus detorquet Iarban incenditque animum dictis atque aggerat iras. Hic Hammone satus rapta Garamantide nympha templa Iovi centum latis immania regnis, centum aras posuit vigilemque sacraverat ignem, 200 excubias diuum aeternas, pecudumque cruore pingue…

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    Jun 12, 2011
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    On translating Vergil (Aeneid 1.305-309, 6.26-27)

    Translating Vergil Aeneid 1.305-309 At pius Aeneas, per noctem plurima volvens, ut primum lux alma data est, exire locosque explorare novos, quas vento accesserit oras, qui teneant, nam inculta videt, hominesne feraene, quaerere constituit, sociisque exacta referre. Fitzgerald: But the dedicated...

    Mar 24, 2011
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    O Socii (Vergil, Aeneid 1.198-209)

    O Socii ‘O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum— O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem. Vos et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantis 200 accestis scopulos, vos et Cyclopea saxa experti: revocate animos, maestumque timorem mittite: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. Per varios...

    Mar 15, 2011
19. 63

    Always a Listener (Juvenal, Satire 1.1-21)

    Juvenal Sat. 1.1-21 Semper ego auditor tantum? numquamne reponam uexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi? inpune ergo mihi recitaverit ille togatas, hic elegos? inpune diem consumpserit ingens Telephus aut summi plena iam margine libri scriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes? nota magis nulli...

    Nov 30, 2010
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    The Elephant (Anth. Lat. 187)

    Chief of Monsters Monstrorum princeps, Elephans proboscide saevus horret mole nigra, dente micat niveo. sed vario fugienda malo cum belua gliscat, est tamen excepti mors pretiosa feri. nam quae conspicimus montani roboris ossa humanis veniunt usibus apta satis. consulibus sceptrum, mensis decus,...

    Oct 6, 2010
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    The Glory of Spain (Claudian, Laus Serenae 50-69)

    In honor of Spain’s recent world cup victory, here’s a bit of Claudian on the glories of Spain (Hispania to the Romans): Claudian Laus Serenae Quid dignum memorare tuis, Hispania, terris vox humana valet? primo levat aequore solem India: tu fessos exacta luce iugales proluis inque tuo respirant...

    Jul 30, 2010
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    The Art of Love (Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.1-24)

    Hi everybody! Sorry for the extended hiatus. The summer should bring time for more frequent updates. Hope you enjoy this bit of Ovid. The translation here is my own. Ov. Ars Amatoria 1.1-24 Siquis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi, Hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet. Arte citae veloque…

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    Jun 23, 2010
23. 59

    Heavenly Food (Prudentius, Psychomachia Pref. 29-44)

    Here is Brendan Boston reading a section from the iambic preface that Prudentius wrote to his hexameter mini-epic, the Psychomachia, composed around AD 400. It discusses food, and how important nutrition is for the body. He covers many interesting topics that you wouldn’t expect, like food for…

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    May 20, 2010
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    The Peaceful Heart (Prudentius, Psychomachia 779-784)

    Here is a recording by Amy Hall of a lovely passage from near the end of Psychomachia (or “Battle within the Soul”), written around AD 400 by the Spanish-born Latin poet Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (whom you may now befriend on Facebook). Psychomachia 770-784 Amy Hall pax plenum Virtutis opus…

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    May 20, 2010
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    Horace, Odes 1.1

    Horace, Odes 1.1 Maecenas atauis edite regibus, o et praesidium et dulce decus meum, sunt quos curriculo puluerem Olympicum collegisse iuuat metaque feruidis euitata rotis palmaque nobilis 5 terrarum dominos euehit ad deos; hunc, si mobilium turba Quiritium certat tergeminis tollere honoribus;...

    Mar 16, 2010
26. 56

    Some Hexamater lists

    Hexamater lists All 12 of the chief Roman gods (Ennius): Iuno Vesta Minerva Ceres Diana Venus Mars Mercurius Iovis Neptunus Volcanus Apollo Ingredients of a cocktail called dodra (Ausonius): Ius aqua mel vinum panis piper herba oleum sal All letters of the Latin alphabet: Duc, Zephyre exsurgens,...

    Feb 17, 2010
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    To a Glutton (Francesco Filelfo, Odes 1.9)

    Filelfo Odes 1.9 Si te trux adeo podagra torquet, nec cessat laterum dolor, podarge, affligitque premens nec exeundi urinae reperit viam profusus imber, pone modum gulae voraci 5 et dirae veneri. Quibus per omnis quando luxurias ruis protervus, morbum non pateris subactus unum. Membris te cruciat...

    Jan 15, 2010
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    To Aelia Secundula (CIL 8.20277)

    Thanks to everyone who voted for Latin Poetry Podcast in the 2009 Edublog Awards contest. I came in a respectable fourth in the category of Best Educational Use of Audio, with 10% of the votes. I appreciate the support! Aelia Secundula Memoriae Aeliae Secundulae Funeri mu[l]ta quid(e)m condigna…

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    Dec 22, 2009
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    Decimus Laberius

    This just in, Latin Poetry Podcast is a finalist in the 2009 Edublog Awards, Category: Best Educational Use of Audio. Click here to cast your vote! Laberius Some fragments of the mime writer Laberius, from O. Ribbeck, Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta, vol. 2 Comicorum Romanorum Fragmenta, 3rd...

    Dec 10, 2009
30. 52

    Quintilian on pauses in Aeneid 1.1-8

    Quintilian on pausing Pacing: Quintilian on pauses in Aeneid 1.1–8 (Inst. 11.3.33–38, trans. Russell) Arma virumque cano,/ Troiae qui primus ab oris/ Italiam/ fato profugus/ Lavinaque venit litora,/ multum ille et terris iactatus et alto . . . Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae./ Musa…

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    Nov 4, 2009
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    Arms and the Man (Aeneid 1.1-11)

    Aen.1.1-11 This is a re-posting of an older installment that some people have had trouble finding. Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram; multa quoque et bello...

    Nov 3, 2009
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    Oedipus’ self-blinding (Seneca, Oedipus 960-979)

    Seneca Oedipus 960-979 violentus audax vultus, iratus ferox 960 iamiam eruentis; gemuit et dirum fremens manus in ora torsit. at contra truces oculi steterunt et suam intenti manum ultro insecuntur, vulneri occurrunt suo. scrutatur avidus manibus uncis lumina, 965 radice ab ima funditus vulsos...

    Oct 13, 2009
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    Laocoon (Vergil, Aeneid 2. 199-227)

    Vergil Aeneid 2.199-227 Hic aliud maius miseris multoque tremendum obicitur magis atque improuida pectora turbat. 200 Laocoon, ductus Neptuno sorte sacerdos, sollemnis taurum ingentem mactabat ad aras. ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta (horresco referens) immensis orbibus angues...

    Sep 24, 2009
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    The Parthian Arrow (Prudentius, Hamartigenia 531-552)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2009/08/PrudentiusHamartigenia.mp3] maior inest vis illa homini, quae flatile virus 531 ingerit et tenuem tenui facit aëre mentem. Parthica non aeque ventos transcurrit harundo, cuius iter nullus potis est compredere visus; praepes enim...

    Aug 21, 2009
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    Of Mice and Weasels (Phaedrus, Fables 4.6)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2009/08/Phaedrus-4.6newnew.mp3] Pugna Murium et Mustelarum Cum victi mures mustelarum exercitu (historia, quorum et, in tabernis pingitur) fugerent et artos circum trepidarent cavos, aegre recepti, tamen evaserunt necem: duces eorum…

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    Aug 21, 2009
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    To Venus (Horace, Odes 1.30)

    http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2009/07/horace-odes-130.mp3 O Venus, regina Cnidi Paphique, sperne dilectam Cypron et vocantis ture te multo Glycerae decoram transfer in aedem fervidus tecum puer et solutis Gratiae zonis properentque Nymphae et parum comis sine te Iuventas...

    Jul 10, 2009
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    Jupiter, Life of the Elements (Avienus, Phaenomena 1-23, 41-45)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/avienus-phaenomena.mp3] Carminis inceptor mihi Jupiter; auspice terras linquo Iove; excelsam reserat dux Iupiter aethram imus in astra Iovis monitu; Iovis omine caelum, et Iovis imperio mortalibus aethera pando. Hic statio, hic sedes primi patris;...

    Jun 19, 2009
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    Xanthias the notarius (Carmina Latina Epigraphica 219)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/xanthius-the-notarius.mp3] Hoc carmen, haec ara, hic cinis pueri sepulcrum est Xantiae, qui morte acerba raptus est, iam doctus in compendia tot literarum et nominum notare currenti stilo quod lingua currens diceret. iam nemo superaret legens, iam...

    Jun 1, 2009
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    Jesus in the Temple (Vida, Christiad 1.551-569)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/jesus-in-the-temple.mp3] Dum vero affatur genitorem divus ad aram, 551 mirantes socii templum per singula lustrant, suspectu molem vasto artificumque laborem: Cautibus excisas centum, centum aere columnas, omnes e solido, omnes altis montibus…

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    May 18, 2009
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    The Creation of Mankind (Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.77-88)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/ovid-met-177-88.mp3] Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae deerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset: natus homo est, sive hunc divino semine fecit ille opifex rerum, mundi melioris origo, sive recens tellus seductaque nuper ab alto...

    Feb 17, 2009
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    Figures on the floor (Ausonius, Moselle 48-62)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/ausonius-moselle.mp3] I nunc et Phrygiis sola leuia consere crustis Tendens marmoreum laqueata per atria campum; ast ego despectis, quae census opesque dederunt, 50 Naturae mirabor opus, non cura nepotum Laetaque iacturis ubi luxuriatur egestas.…

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    Jan 8, 2009
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    A look at snow (Horace, Odes 1.9)

    Thanks to Wells Hansen of Milton Academy for this guest spot![audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/a-look-at-snow.mp3] Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte, nec iam sustineant onus silvae laborantes, geluque flumina constiterint acuto? dissolue frigus ligna super foco large…

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    Dec 21, 2008
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    A view from the Palatine (Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 39-52)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/the-view-from-the-palatine.mp3] Non alium certe decuit rectoribus orbis esse larem, nulloque magis se colle potestas aestimat et summi sentit fastigia iuris; attollens apicem subiectis regia rostris tot circum delubra videt tantisque deorum…

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    Dec 8, 2008
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    The Temple of Janus (Ovid, Fasti 1.257-276)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/the-temple-of-janus.mp3] ‘cum tot sint iani, cur stas sacratus in uno, hic ubi iuncta foris templa duobus habes?’ ille, manu mulcens propexam ad pectora barbam, protinus Oebalii rettulit arma Tati, utque levis custos, armillis capta, Sabinos ad...

    Nov 13, 2008
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    Dining well (Catullus 13)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/catullus13.mp3] Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me paucis, si tibi di fauent, diebus, si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam cenam, non sine candida puella et uino et sale et omnibus cachinnis. haec si, inquam, attuleris, uenuste noster, cenabis…

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    Nov 6, 2008
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    The Death of Bitias (Vergil, Aeneid 9.703-716)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/the-death-of-bitias.mp3] tum Bitian ardentem oculis animisque frementem, non iaculo (neque enim iaculo uitam ille dedisset), sed magnum stridens contorta phalarica uenit fulminis acta modo, quam nec duo taurea terga nec duplici squama lorica…

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    Sep 7, 2008
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    Ferulae: The Rods of the Schoolmasters (Martial, Epigrams 14.80)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/ferulae-speak.mp3] Ferulae: Invisae nimium pueris grataeque magistris clara Prometheo munere ligna sumus.

    Aug 23, 2008
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    Constantine Squared: Optatianus 2 (ed. Mueller)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/optatianus-21.mp3] Sancte tui vatis Caesar miserere serenus! Auguste omnipotens, almo mortalia cuncta Numine laetificans, nobis ad gaudia nomen, Constantine, tuum fecundi carminis ex hoc Te duce det Musas. nam tristis cura recusat Egregios actus.…

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    Jul 24, 2008
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    Epitaph for a Roman Soldier (CLE 537 = CIL 5.5824)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/epitaph-for-a-roman-soldier.mp3] d. M. L. Comagi Firmi milit(is) leg. II Parth. qui vixit ann. XXVII m. II d. V Parcae te miseris rapuere parent(ibus) urna spectantes livente animo tuae gloriae cursum fletus in perpetuo miserae reliq(uisti) dolore,...

    Mar 25, 2008
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    Eleven Little Syllables (Catullus 10)

    [audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/eleven-little-syllables-catullus-10.mp3] Varus me meus ad suos amores uisum duxerat e foro otiosum, scortillum, ut mihi tum repente uisum est, non sane illepidum neque inuenustum, huc ut uenimus, incidere nobis sermones uarii, in quibus, quid esset...

    Mar 5, 2008