“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.” {Towles, Rules of...
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trĭvĭum , i, n.
Literal definition: a place where three roads meet, a fork in the roads, cross-road
Idiomatic definition: a public square, the public street, highway.
Those steeped in the jargon of classical education can poll-parrot Dorothy...
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.” {Towles, Rules of...
“He studied Latin like the violin Because he liked it.”
Why study Latin? As a Latin teacher, I’m asked this question on a regular basis. And, yes, like Harold in Robert Frost’s “The Death of Hired Man,” I study Latin because I like it! But I...
