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Ecce Romani is a reading-based Latin program. The first two books feature the Cornelians, a rich family from Rome. The third book focuses on Roman stories and mythology. The title of the series translates to Look! The Romans! [1] [2]
Authors are still producing original books in Latin today. This page lists contemporary or recent books (from the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries) originally written in Latin . These books are not called "new" because the term Neo-Latin or New Latin refers to books written as early as the 1500s, which is "newer" than Classical Antiquity or the ...
Cornelia Catlin Coulter (1885 – April 27, 1960) was an American classicist and academic who was Professor of Latin at Mount Holyoke College from 1926 to 1951. She is known in particular for her work on the Medieval and Renaissance use of Classical sources and for her presidency of and advocacy for the Classical Association of New England .
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, by Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1795, Louvre) The manuscripts of Cornelius Nepos, the earliest Latin biographer (ca. 110-24 BC), include several excerpts from a letter supposedly composed by Cornelia to Gaius (her younger son). If the letters are authentic, they would make Cornelia one of only four Roman women whose ...
Latin Translation Notes habeas corpus [we command] that you have the body [brought up] A legal term from the 14th century or earlier. Refers to a number of legal writs requiring a jailer to bring a prisoner in person (hence corpus) before a court or judge, most commonly habeas corpus ad subjiciendum ("that you have the body [brought up] for the purpose of subjecting [the case to examination]").
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, by Noël Hallé (1779, Musée Fabre). Haec ornamenta mea is a Latin phrase meaning "These are my jewels" or "These are my ornaments". The expression is attributed to Cornelia Africana (c. 190 – c. 100 BC) by Valerius Maximus in his Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX, IV, 4, incipit, [1] [2] [3] where he related an anecdote demonstrating Cornelia's ...
Caesar delivers a funeral oration for Julia and Calpurnia (Henri de Montaut, 1868)The laudatio Iuliae amitae ("Eulogy for Aunt Julia") is a funeral oration that Julius Caesar said in 68 BC to honor his dead aunt Julia, the widow of Marius.
The epistle contains about a hundred citations from the Old Testament, New Testament, and other apocryphal writings; Pseudo-Titus most frequently cites the Book of Psalms, the Book of Ezekiel, the Gospels, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, the Epistle to the Galatians, and the Book of Revelation, however, his citations are diverse, and a few citations remain unknown.