Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
This is a simplified version of Pliny's ghost story here told in novice-intermediate level Latin.
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This is a simplified version of Pliny's ghost story here told in novice-intermediate level Latin.
For a full script of the video's text and Pliny's original version along with teaching materials, click here:
drive.google.com/open?id=1IzkPhA8CJ9eLFcri2-YHDoCDBYH1HFxb
and for a word list in a excel document allowing you to order words alphabetically or according to frequency, click here:
drive.google.com/open?id=16ga0oXxbLHBnMdl4_M0-IjjjVPsv5PuUyYLQ9DtFUnU
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![Mythology: Diana - Latin - Minecraft
This brief video describes the Olympian goddess Diana and tells the myth of her and the hunter Actaeon.
Vocab: venatus, gemellus, venator, virgo, strepitum, iussit, quiete, fontem, sine, veste
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Mount Olympus, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) by stefg74 at https://www.flickr.com/photos/stg_gr1/
Diana at Royal Palace of Caserta, By Miguel Hermoso Cuesta (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Mythology: Diana - Latin - Minecraft](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZisTzJBtyJo/mqdefault.jpg)


![Henry David Thoreau - Bio and Letter to his Sisters - Latin
In this video, I highlight the great American thinker and writer, Henry David Thoreau. The video begins with a basic and abbreviated biography and then transitions into one of Thoreaus letters, originally written in Latin, to his sisters.
Below I have included the transcript of the letter. There may be discovered a few peculiarities in the text that may owe themselves either to an improper transcription from his handwritten letter to the digital copies readily available today or to Thoreaus usage of a less than common word/phrase or simple human error. If meaning were possibly obscured, I included a suggestion in [brackets] to aid in comprehension.
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TEXT FOR HENRY DAVID THOREAUS LATIN LETTER
Concordiae, Dec. Kal. Feb. A. D. MDCCCXL.
Cara Soror,—Est magnus acervus nivis ad limina, et frigus intolerabile intus. Coelum ipsum ruit, credo, et terram operit. Sero stratum linquo et mature repeto; in fenestris multa pruina prospectum absumit; et hic miser scribo, non currente calamo, nam digiti mentesque torpescunt. Canerem cum Horatio, si vox non faucibus haeserit,—
Vides ut alta stet nive candidum
Nawshawtuct, nec jam sustineant onus
Silvae laborantes, geluque
Flumina constiterint acuto?
Dissolve frigus, ligna super foco
Large reponens, etc.
Sed olim, Musa mutata, et laetiore plectro,
Neque jam stabulis gaudet pecus, aut arator igne,
Nec prata canis albicant pruinis;
Jam Cytherea choros ducit Venus imminente luna.
Quum turdus ferrugineus ver reduxerit, tu, spero, linques curas scholasticas, et, negotio religato, desipere in loco audebis; aut mecum inter sylvas, aut super scopulos Pulchri-Portus, aut in cymba super lacum Waldensem, mulcens fluctus manu, aut speciem miratus sub undas.
Bulwerius est mihi nomen incognitum,—unus ex ignobile vulgo, nec refutandus nec laudandus. Certe alicui nonnullam honorem habeo qui insanabili cacoēthe scribendi teneatur.
Specie flagrantis Lexingtonis non somnia deturbat? At non Vulcanum Neptunumque culpemus, cum superstitioso grege. Natura curat animalculis aeque ac hominibus; cum serena, tum procellosa, amica est.
Si amas historiam et fortia facta heroum, non depone Rollin, precor; ne Clio offendas nunc, nec illa det veniam olim. Quos libros Latinos legis? legis, inquam, non studes. Beatus qui potest suos libellos tractare, et saepe perlegere, sine metu domini urgentis! ab otio injurioso procul est: suos amicos et vocare et dimittere, quandocunque velit, potest. Bonus liber opus nobilissimum hominis. Hinc ratio non modo cur legeres, sed cur tu quoque scriberes; nec lectores carent; ego sum. Si non librum meditaris, libellum certe. Nihil posteris proderit te spirasse, et vitam nunc leniter nunc aspere egisse; sed cogitasse praecipue et scripsisse. Vereor ne tibi pertaesum hujus epistolae sit; necnon alma lux caret,
Maioresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae
Quamobrem vale,—imo valete, et requiescatis placide, Sorores.
Memento scribere!
H. D. Thoreaus Henry David Thoreau - Bio and Letter to his Sisters - Latin](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abK5RHVwUXg/mqdefault.jpg)


