4 There's Imperator. The whole movie is in Latin. Though short (40 minutes), it's a serious production.

Marcus Aurelius describes himself succinctly and humbly in the third book of his Meditations. I would like to come up with a Latin translation, but have a few questions on diction. ἔτι δὲ ὁ ἐν σοὶ...

SPQR: Why not Romani? The motto of the Roman Republic was, of course, Senatus Populusque Romanus, or SPQR. However, Romanus is a masculine, singular adjective. What confuses me is …

Other comments: A predicative nominative occurs when you have a copula joining two nominative nouns. That's a lot of fancy jargon for a pretty simple case: "Caesar est imperator." As you can see, …

Q&A for linguists, teachers, and students wanting to discuss the finer points of the Latin language

I vaguely remember reading a story years ago, and it was something like this: A king in medieval Europe knew some Latin but made mistakes. I think there was something like him writing plurals l...

On old British coinage, etc., Dei Gratia, by the grace of God' used to appear, later shortened to 'DG', with very similar meaning. [The full inscription included abbreviations for the phrases Dei gratia Rex, …

Q&A for linguists, teachers, and students wanting to discuss the finer points of the Latin language

Dec 10, 2023 · It is a typical feature of Latin that participles are used instead of finite verbs, even where we would not expect that in our own languages, or it would sound stilted. This is frequently …

Nov 21, 2023 · There are some classical examples for this, here are some: Cogita enim quam multis militibus non semper sobriis et imperator et tribunus et centurio tacenda mandaverint. …