Latin??

I went to that sort of school-was excused in the third form as I was thick-well languages anyway.


What do I remember??


Semi nudus =half dressed

This bloke called agricola might have been a farmer

But best of all `lupa`or was it Lupus? `she wolf`(lady of the night)

So Romulus and Remus suckled from a whore??


not the sort of thing young boys in the mid /late 60`s should mention

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I was ''excused'' from Latin after 3 years too! I took Classical Studies instead......far more interesting......Roman and Greek mythology.
Never could get the hang of Latin.....all those declensions

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The only Latin that has stuck in my head since my schooldays is:
amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant

I think that was in my first Latin lesson. I did like the language to start with but then was totally confused when we started the Latin tenses......... Present, Imperfect, Future, Perfect, Pluperfect, Future Perfect.

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...and don't forget the gerrund

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Present, Imperfect, Future, Perfect, Pluperfect, Future Perfect.

Ah tenses!!-they made no sense at all until years after I got a
PhD I/we went to Italian evening class.

They made sense--and then went on to get an award much more precious than my PhD

GCSE A star in Italian-va bene

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Veni -vidi-vici -I came I saw I conkered [haha]

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Tempus fugit was always popular for pupils to show off with at the end of the lesson!

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I was an altar boy in the Catholic Church. I had to know enough Latin to serve up a mass. I knew the complete Our Father in Latin once.

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Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" ...I still remember my Caesar's Gallic Wars. Loved Latin, had two years of it! Actually love languages: three years of Spanish and a year each of Greek and German.

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My brother was an altar boy as well Bobmielke-brought back memories of when we all as a family went to Mass and it was all in latin........