by Dwane | Jul 23, 2014 | Education, Latin
My students and I just finished another trip through Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, by Hans Orberg. Today was the last day of a Latin class that began several years ago. Since we bogged down in the book, the class was off schedule. I promised students we would...
by Dwane | Jul 22, 2014 | Latin
It’s no secret that I believe students should start with the Vulgate (the Latin Bible) before tackling the Latin Classics. In a recent blog about this, I provided a link to Faith Comes By Hearing. By using the link, and by typing “Latin” into the...
by Dwane | Jul 22, 2014 | English, Latin, Vocabulary
Abdicate [ab: away + dicare: to dedicate, consecrate, or set apart] The literal meaning of abdicate is: to set oneself away from something. The dictionary definitions do not deviate far from the literal meaning. Abdicate: To relinquish; to renounce; to abandon; to...
by Dwane | Jul 19, 2014 | Education, Greek, Latin, Vocabulary
Amoral [Greek ά (without) and Latin mos, moris (custom, habit, morals)]. The moral of a story teaches us a good lesson. From the moral, we learn the right thing to do. If we are amoral, we are without standards. We do not care about right and wrong. Sometimes...
by Dwane | Jul 19, 2014 | Education, Latin
In February 2014, I started producing a series of free screencasts. They are all on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/visuallatin I was using the Vulgate Course, by William Dodds. It is available free from Google Books. It is available as a reprint here on...
by Dwane | Jul 18, 2014 | English, Latin, Vocabulary
Abandon Old French abandoner, from Latin ab (away from), and bannum (proclamation, edict). The Old French phrase mettre a bandon meant “to send under the control, or jurisdiction of another.” Pontius Pilate attempts “mettre a bandon” in the gospel of Luke. Eager to...
