Comments on: Ad Reginaldum

By: Ricardus

Ricardus — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:44:00 +0000

Bully for Reggie! And bully for you all! It would be fun to see you again, Josephus. My summer plans are already set however; Lord willing, I will visit Turkey, where my aunt has lived for some seven years now.

Thank you for including the endorsement of the Amy High scholarship fund. Their support aided me tremendously in financing my trip.

By: Tobias Petrus

Tobias Petrus — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:23:00 +0000

The Oxford Latin Dictionary is a perplexing work, and you often leave in worse shape than when you came. Lewis and Short all the way. For a pocket dictionary, Traupman’s is very good. Of course, Gildersleeve and Lodge is the best grammar. Hale and Buck is good for basic stuff, though, like the different uses of the different cases. Unfortunately, since H&B is used by so few people (or so it seems), its particular *terminology* for different constructions often conflicts with standard terminology.

By: Iosephus

Iosephus — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:39:00 +0000

Mater Marci, I like your point: I’m often using my English dictionary, too, and so it only stands to reason that we’d need to be in our Latin dictionaries at least as often.

By: mater marci

mater marci — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:31:00 +0000

Hmm — “for cities, small islands, domus and rus, ad is removed for directional use –” should we add Reggie to that list? Ergo: Reginaldum!

(A clever member of your society taught me that rhyme)

By: mater marci

mater marci — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:26:00 +0000

Well — I look things up in my English dictionary almost every day — so it makes sense that one would have to do so in Latin — times 10. And, BTW, YES! Point received — we know for whom you write!