July 18, 2005

SCIPIO SCRIPSIT.

Scipio Scripsit is the blog of someone who, frustrated that [he had found] blogs about Latin but none in Latin (or, as he puts it, "Plurimi de latina, sed nullos in ipsa latina"), decided to remedy the deficiency. [Note: I should have checked before taking his word for it that there were no others; see next entry.] (He's a real blogger, too—in his second post he has a picture of his dog Bomilcar.) Gaudete omnes! (Via Classics in Contemporary Culture.)

Update. Aug. 2006: Blog appears to be defunct, or, as the blogger would have put it, defunctus.

Posted by languagehat at July 18, 2005 02:40 PM
Comments

Excellent. The writer at the Spectator who complained about one Oxford Classics teacher saying that "no-one actually writes or speaks Latin any more" should like this.

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Posted by: mark at July 18, 2005 03:18 PM

Bomilcar delanda est. Obviously no Roman.

Posted by: John Emerson at July 18, 2005 04:57 PM

I love it. Now we will all want to be like Meg More who was able to take on Henry viii in Latin. See my post Meditations on Utopia

Posted by: Suzanne McCarthy at July 18, 2005 05:06 PM

Special bonus plug: his other blog, the Absorbascon, is one of my favorites on the subject of comic books.

Posted by: Matt at July 19, 2005 02:43 AM

Mea etiam cum sim apud conventiculum, nempe hoc anno a die 29 Iulii usque ad 6 Augusti.

http://www.livejournal.com/~jdm314

Posted by: Justin at July 19, 2005 04:00 AM