Archive for July, 2011
Tibullus Posted by kunthra on Jul 7, 2011
Albius Tibullus was a Latin poet and a contemporary of Virgil. We have very little information about Tibullus’s life and we’re not even sure if the last two book of poems attributed to Tibullus was really even written by him. However, we are pretty confident that the first two volumes of poems was authored by…
English Slang Into Latin Posted by kunthra on Jul 4, 2011
Have you ever wondered how English slang could be interpreted into Latin? Take a look at some of these phrases in Latin. Can you guess what they might mean in English? Remember, these phrases were not used by the ancient Romans, but they are fun phrases to use as code words with friends who know…