{"id":126,"date":"2003-10-08T13:08:54","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T17:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/10\/08\/semester-so-far\/"},"modified":"2003-10-08T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2003-10-08T17:08:54","slug":"semester-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/10\/08\/semester-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Semester so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a157'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometime in the past week or so, a transition happened.  I now feel like I can read Latin, more or less.  I think it was a matter of having a few homework assignments in a row where I could figure out most of what was being said without a dictionary or recourse to grammar clues.  I&#8217;m pretty psyched, because I&#8217;ve already taken two semesters and wasn&#8217;t particularly able to read &mdash; I was getting worried.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know exactly where this will go.  Apart from Ovid, I haven&#8217;t fallen in love with any Latin authors.  Some of the medieval authors we&#8217;re reading are appallingly tedious, like John Scottus Erigeunus (John the Irishman from Ireland).  &#8220;Quod si aliqua eum [sc. deum] causa compelleret ad faciendum, ea merito maior meliorque eo crederetur; ac per hoc ipsa, non ipse, summa omnium causa desuque coleretur.&#8221;  [If something could whup God it&#8217;d be God. -d.]<\/p>\n<p>Oh snap!  You tell &#8217;em, John!  Definitiones tuas pugionibus similes e vagina educ!<\/p>\n<p>There are some divinity students in the class, who got wonderfully hot and bothered about all this double predestination stuff.  Me, I can live without the philosophy; I want stories about unicorns and shit.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I should read more Ovid when I get a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in the past week or so, a transition happened. I now feel like I can read Latin, more or less. I think it was a matter of having a few homework assignments in a row where I could figure out most of what was being said without a dictionary or recourse to grammar clues. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}