Latin Quotes, Sayings, Tattoos, Phrases & Mottos

Created a new page: a list of Latin derivatives in English. The Latin part of the list consists of the most common words, the English one has some pretty obscure modes of locution.

Latin Derivatives

Amazon sells T-shirts that say precisely this:

Please understand...
I only speak Latin!

Now, shouldn't this phrase also be in Latin? Just wondering...

This story did not get the news coverage that I believe it deserved:

Not all sensational finds come out of the ground! Augustine scholars will be delighted at the news of 6 previously unknown sermons’ being discovered through a library “excavation” in Erfurt’s Bibliotheca Amploniana. Isabella Schiller and colleagues from the Austrian Academy of Sciences discovered these works while studying an 800-year-old manuscript in the summer of 2007.

Concealed in a medieval parchment manuscript amongst 70 other religious texts are ca. 26 sermons attributed to Augustine, 3 of them on brotherly love and alms-giving. These were known previously only by their titles cited in Possidius’ Indiculum. One sermon is on the martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, and another on the recently martyred Cyprian, the latter of which condemns the copious drinking that took place on saints’ feast days. The final sermon deals with resurrection of the dead and biblical prophecies.

Unknown works of Saint Augustine found

I pretty much knew that C.S. Lewis was a good Latinist. He sort of had to be one, given his education. Plus, Lucretius is know to have influence the writer in his early years. So, when I saw a book called "The Latin Letters of C S Lewis" it caught my attention. Unfortunately, there is not much Latin about it :( It is just a translation. Thus far I was unable to locate the original Latin text of the letters.

The history behind this publication is as follows, in case anyone's interested:

In September 1947, after reading The Screwtape Letters in Italian, Fr. Giovanni Calabria was moved to write the author, but he knew no English, so he addressed his letter in Latin. Therein began a correspondence that was to outlive Fr. Calabria himself (he died in December 1954 and was succeeded in the correspondence by Fr. Luigi Pedrollo).