Die sexto (Iulii 13) Solis die
ultimo die Conventiculi Dickinsoniensis colloquium de rebus scholasticis habebatur. post pausam, omnes ludo fruebantur de "rerum et verborum copia." Terentius Milenaque nobis paucas periodos dederunt, in quibus aliquot verba litteris inclinatis scripta erant. temptavimus alia verba Latine idem declarantia cogitare vel dare. proverbia quoque nobis data sunt. necesse erat nobis Latine proverbia omnia explicare.
fabellae nostrae tandem coram omnibus dabantur. spectatores fabellis fructi sunt; assidue ridebant plaudebantque; etiam tirones mihi dixerunt se totam fabellam nostram intellexisse. finis Conventiculi erat iucunda!
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Conventiculum Dickinsoniense, Summer 2014, Fifth Day (Latin)
Die quinto (Iulii 12) Saturni die
cum Tirones de vestimentis dicere discerent, ego et meus grex fabellam scaenicam praemeditabamur. dialogus est tam bene expolitus et iucundus ut, si fabellae Latinae in "Broadway" in Novo Eboraco agerentur, nostrum mitterem. in his pagellis fabellam nostram ipsi legatis si velitis.
omnes perlegimus de loco Vergilii in quo Dido Aenean accusat et Aeneas reginam relinquit.
post prandium perambulavi Collegium Dickinsoniense. ante bibliothecum festum musicum generis musici, "Blue Grass." carmina gregis musicae, nomine "Vickie Vaughn Band," me valde delectaverunt.
postea sermonem cum "Vickie Vaughn" ipsa habebam. habemus amicum communem, nomine Ricky Braddy, cantatorem. Ricky olim canebat in emissione televisifica, nomine "American Idol," sed non erat victor huius certaminis. iuvenis Ricky paulisper fuerat discipulus meus in Carolina Septentrionali. et Ricky et Vickie fuerunt discipuli in eadem schola musicae. quam parvus locus est orbis terrarum in quo habitamus!
postquam novam amicam (Vickie) inveni, ad sessiones nostras reveni. de modis docendis colloquium habuimus, dein sessionem in qua imagines a nobis describebantur.
in ultima sessione hodierna colloquium de itineribus habebatur. index verborum nobis traditus est. dixi pauca de marito meo, qui erat nauta submarinus in Bello Frigido. multa itinera sub aequoribus fecit. multa arcana fecit; non licet ei (etiam nunc) de his rebus loqui. mihi tamen librum, nomine "Blind Man's Bluff," tradidit. liber est historia navigationum submarinarum in Bello Frigido. post librum legendum, pro certo scio maritum esse et fortissimum et insanum. patriam amat, et ego eum!
cum Tirones de vestimentis dicere discerent, ego et meus grex fabellam scaenicam praemeditabamur. dialogus est tam bene expolitus et iucundus ut, si fabellae Latinae in "Broadway" in Novo Eboraco agerentur, nostrum mitterem. in his pagellis fabellam nostram ipsi legatis si velitis.
omnes perlegimus de loco Vergilii in quo Dido Aenean accusat et Aeneas reginam relinquit.
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| Grex Musica, "Vickie Vaughn Band," mihi valde placuit! |
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| Vickie Vaughn Band |
post prandium perambulavi Collegium Dickinsoniense. ante bibliothecum festum musicum generis musici, "Blue Grass." carmina gregis musicae, nomine "Vickie Vaughn Band," me valde delectaverunt.
postea sermonem cum "Vickie Vaughn" ipsa habebam. habemus amicum communem, nomine Ricky Braddy, cantatorem. Ricky olim canebat in emissione televisifica, nomine "American Idol," sed non erat victor huius certaminis. iuvenis Ricky paulisper fuerat discipulus meus in Carolina Septentrionali. et Ricky et Vickie fuerunt discipuli in eadem schola musicae. quam parvus locus est orbis terrarum in quo habitamus!
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| haec festa musicae fiunt quotannis |
postquam novam amicam (Vickie) inveni, ad sessiones nostras reveni. de modis docendis colloquium habuimus, dein sessionem in qua imagines a nobis describebantur.
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| fabulam de testudine et cuniculo narravi |
in ultima sessione hodierna colloquium de itineribus habebatur. index verborum nobis traditus est. dixi pauca de marito meo, qui erat nauta submarinus in Bello Frigido. multa itinera sub aequoribus fecit. multa arcana fecit; non licet ei (etiam nunc) de his rebus loqui. mihi tamen librum, nomine "Blind Man's Bluff," tradidit. liber est historia navigationum submarinarum in Bello Frigido. post librum legendum, pro certo scio maritum esse et fortissimum et insanum. patriam amat, et ego eum!
Conventiculum Dickinsoniense, Summer 2014, Fourth Day
Die Quarto (Iulii 11) Veneris die:
hodie Tirones de cibo loquebantur cum Peritiores fabellas scaenicas componere pergeremus. grex meus finem dialogi expoliendi paene confecimus. ad Alannum dialogum per interrete misi. Alannus promisit se ultima verba dialogi expoliturum esse, et chartis diologi luce expressis se quoque rediturum ut noster grex versus scriptos haberet ut praemeditaremur.
in altera sessione, Tirones exercitiis ludisque fruebantur. Peritiores aenigmata antiqua legebamus et solvebamus. postea in gregibus aenigmata nova composuimus. grex meus duo aenigmata composuimus.
Cum pranderemus, amicus, nomine Mica, dixit me Latine etiam melius locuturam esse, si Romae in Accademia Vivario Novo aestivem. praesertim si stipendium ullo modo invenerim, ibo.
post pradium Peritiores nostra aenigmata priore excogitata coram omibus recitavimus. omnes breviter solvere conabantur. scripsi duo aenigmata a grege meo scripta. indicium post aenigmata scripta faciam; nolite legere nisi vultis! sed solutionem cupiatis, id mihi narrate!
(indicium: ambo sunt vehicula)
Post pausam in greges minores, Tirones Peritiores commixti, divisi sumus ut locum Vergilii explicaremus. Terentius unicuique gregi paucos versus huius loci designavit. unusquisque grex versus summatim descripsit. licet nobis aliquid dicere de vi, metro, ordine verborum, et perinde. aliquis electus a grege coram omnibus recitavit.
vespere plurimi ad praedium rusticum, nomine Dickinson Farm, iter fecerunt. ibi fiebant ambulatio, sermones de situ et de agricultura, et cena communis vel convivium sub divo.
in praedio non adfui, quod ad cenam cum familiaribus mariti mei invitata sum. ad tabernam Asianam, nomine "Issei Noodle," iimus, dein ad tabernam iucundam, quae cremum gelidum bene notum vendit, erravimus. nomen tabernae est "Leo's."
hodie Tirones de cibo loquebantur cum Peritiores fabellas scaenicas componere pergeremus. grex meus finem dialogi expoliendi paene confecimus. ad Alannum dialogum per interrete misi. Alannus promisit se ultima verba dialogi expoliturum esse, et chartis diologi luce expressis se quoque rediturum ut noster grex versus scriptos haberet ut praemeditaremur.
in altera sessione, Tirones exercitiis ludisque fruebantur. Peritiores aenigmata antiqua legebamus et solvebamus. postea in gregibus aenigmata nova composuimus. grex meus duo aenigmata composuimus.
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| Exempla Aenigmatorum Antiquorum |
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| Exempla Aenigmatorum Antiquorum |
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| Milena Minkova in nostro conclave |
Cum pranderemus, amicus, nomine Mica, dixit me Latine etiam melius locuturam esse, si Romae in Accademia Vivario Novo aestivem. praesertim si stipendium ullo modo invenerim, ibo.
post pradium Peritiores nostra aenigmata priore excogitata coram omibus recitavimus. omnes breviter solvere conabantur. scripsi duo aenigmata a grege meo scripta. indicium post aenigmata scripta faciam; nolite legere nisi vultis! sed solutionem cupiatis, id mihi narrate!
Aenigma Primum:
catenam habeo, sed vincta non sum
sellam habeo in qua numquam sedeo
aliquando aquam porto, sed numquam sitio
duobus circulis progredior, si quis me dirigat
Aenigma Secundum:
potens sum ferreum
itinera mea sunt longa sicut ego ipsum
olim vapore plenum fui
nunc fulgore aut oleo Diseliano moveor
modo super terra repo, modo sub terra volo
(indicium: ambo sunt vehicula)
Post pausam in greges minores, Tirones Peritiores commixti, divisi sumus ut locum Vergilii explicaremus. Terentius unicuique gregi paucos versus huius loci designavit. unusquisque grex versus summatim descripsit. licet nobis aliquid dicere de vi, metro, ordine verborum, et perinde. aliquis electus a grege coram omnibus recitavit.
vespere plurimi ad praedium rusticum, nomine Dickinson Farm, iter fecerunt. ibi fiebant ambulatio, sermones de situ et de agricultura, et cena communis vel convivium sub divo.
in praedio non adfui, quod ad cenam cum familiaribus mariti mei invitata sum. ad tabernam Asianam, nomine "Issei Noodle," iimus, dein ad tabernam iucundam, quae cremum gelidum bene notum vendit, erravimus. nomen tabernae est "Leo's."
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| Familiares mei mariti. Sto ad dextram. |
Conventiculum Dickinsoniense, Summer 2014, Third Day
Die tertio (Iulii 10) Iovis die
hodie Tirones de rebus domesticis loquebantur et exercitiis ludisque iterum fruebantur cum Peritiores fabellas scaenicas componere pergerent. heri cum ceteri prandio cenaque pausisque fruerentur, diligenter laborabam. consilia nostri gregis in initium dialogi converti.
verba quae scripseram comites meos delectaverunt. nos simul dialogum nunc mutamus, complemus, et expolimus. dialogus noster est de mure barbaro, qui Latine loqui non potest. nomen est ErasMUS. solus est, sed murem venustam videt per interrete et statim amat.
sed est difficultas. mus venusta est doctissima et amicum Latine loquentem cupit. Erasmus loco interretiali "Google Translate" utitur, at Mus Latina eum non bene intellegit. ad eam per epistulas electronicas carmina Amoris a poetis notissimis scripta mittit. versus Murem Latinam delectant, sed nunc de vita Erasmi legere vult. invitat eum ad Conventiculum Dickinsoniense, quo ipsa iter facit ut melius Latine loqui discat. finis dialogi est hilaris. post Conventiculum fortasse in his paginis dialogum perfectum scribam.
post prandium omnes locum Vergilii de precibus iratis Iarbae et Mercurio mandata Iovis legimus. post pausam locum e libro XIII Aeneidos legimus. hic liber a Maffaeo Vegio (1407-1458) compositus est. optime fluit, et vestigia Vergilii bene secutus est. nihilominus celeriter me taesum est huius poematii, quod rixae in eo omnino deerant. gaudebam autem quod Vegius vitae Aeneae finem laetum nobilemque dedit.
postea imagines ex ephemeridibus (Punch et The Saturday Evening Post) deliniatas et iocosas inspiciebamus. primo conabamur animalia, homines, et alia in imaginibus describere, deinde decernere et exprimere quid imagines de condicione animalium aut hominum indicarent, tandem dicere qua de re imagines nobis esse absurdae viderentur.
post cenam quidam particeps Conventiculi, nomine Stephanus Farrand, vir eloquens, oratiunculam brevem ab hora octava et dimidia habebat. nomen huius orationis erat, "Ludus et Ictus." paucos post menses in Europa orationem similem habebit.
maritus meus familiares in urbe Carlisle habet. me ad cenam crastinam invitaverunt. libenter consensi. nunc necesse est mihi explicare Terentio Milenaeque cur ad convivium (sub divo) in Fundo Dickinsoniensi crastinum non adveniam. debeo aliquid Tulliae quoque, quod credit se me ad fundum autocineta vecturam esse.
hodie Tirones de rebus domesticis loquebantur et exercitiis ludisque iterum fruebantur cum Peritiores fabellas scaenicas componere pergerent. heri cum ceteri prandio cenaque pausisque fruerentur, diligenter laborabam. consilia nostri gregis in initium dialogi converti.
verba quae scripseram comites meos delectaverunt. nos simul dialogum nunc mutamus, complemus, et expolimus. dialogus noster est de mure barbaro, qui Latine loqui non potest. nomen est ErasMUS. solus est, sed murem venustam videt per interrete et statim amat.
sed est difficultas. mus venusta est doctissima et amicum Latine loquentem cupit. Erasmus loco interretiali "Google Translate" utitur, at Mus Latina eum non bene intellegit. ad eam per epistulas electronicas carmina Amoris a poetis notissimis scripta mittit. versus Murem Latinam delectant, sed nunc de vita Erasmi legere vult. invitat eum ad Conventiculum Dickinsoniense, quo ipsa iter facit ut melius Latine loqui discat. finis dialogi est hilaris. post Conventiculum fortasse in his paginis dialogum perfectum scribam.
post prandium omnes locum Vergilii de precibus iratis Iarbae et Mercurio mandata Iovis legimus. post pausam locum e libro XIII Aeneidos legimus. hic liber a Maffaeo Vegio (1407-1458) compositus est. optime fluit, et vestigia Vergilii bene secutus est. nihilominus celeriter me taesum est huius poematii, quod rixae in eo omnino deerant. gaudebam autem quod Vegius vitae Aeneae finem laetum nobilemque dedit.
postea imagines ex ephemeridibus (Punch et The Saturday Evening Post) deliniatas et iocosas inspiciebamus. primo conabamur animalia, homines, et alia in imaginibus describere, deinde decernere et exprimere quid imagines de condicione animalium aut hominum indicarent, tandem dicere qua de re imagines nobis esse absurdae viderentur.
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| quid accidit in picturis? cur imagines sunt hilares? |
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| quid accidit in imaginibus? cur omnes ridemus? |
post cenam quidam particeps Conventiculi, nomine Stephanus Farrand, vir eloquens, oratiunculam brevem ab hora octava et dimidia habebat. nomen huius orationis erat, "Ludus et Ictus." paucos post menses in Europa orationem similem habebit.
maritus meus familiares in urbe Carlisle habet. me ad cenam crastinam invitaverunt. libenter consensi. nunc necesse est mihi explicare Terentio Milenaeque cur ad convivium (sub divo) in Fundo Dickinsoniensi crastinum non adveniam. debeo aliquid Tulliae quoque, quod credit se me ad fundum autocineta vecturam esse.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Conventiculum Dickinsoniense, or What This Latin Teacher Did With Her Summer Vacation
I teach Latin . I suspect that if my students ever read this post, they will think I am whackier than Ms. Frizzle, the elementary-school science teacher in the Magic School Bus children's series. For part of my summer vacation, I have been attending the "Conventiculum Dickinsoniense," a summer Latin Camp for folks who want to speak Latin, generally considered a dead language. There are, however, users of contemporary Latin, and I wanted to join that group to improve my ability to use the language. It was a worthwhile experience.
Some folks think Latin is called a dead language because nobody speaks it, or, worse, that it's impossible to speak. But that's simply not true.
Need proof? Click this link to watch Professor Tunberg at work (on another occasion).
The question of *why* folks desire to speak Latin is harder to explain. Some find that using the language actively helps them learn and retain it, others find it useful as a teaching technique, and some just find the spoken version of the language beautiful and fun. A few might like the challenge of proving it can be done.
Put me down for "all of the above."
Terence Tunberg told us that he wanted to experience Latin the way the great scholars of the Renaissance, men such as Erasmus, had experienced it, really not all that many centuries ago. It was a journey that took him to Germany to find the immersion experience he desired. After studying with him, I am very glad he found it.
The Conventiculum itself is a way to share enthusiasm with like-minded people. The participants are diverse in their experiences and interests, but all are interesting, intelligent, and fun to be around. One, nicknamed "Petrus Australianus," journeys every summer to this Latin-speaking convention as well as to other ones in the U.S. and abroad.
All the way from Australia, every summer, just to attend!
And Petrus is kind enough to carry around a little pouch full of plastic toy Australian animals just so we can talk in Latin about kangaroos, platypuses, Tasmanian devils, etc.
It's certainly nice to be around folks who get the T-shirts, jokes, and riddles:
Not all our learning took place in classrooms, however. Participants had sworn a solemn oath to speak nothing but Latin to each other until the Conventiculum was over. So at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as in the residence halls, lively conversations took place and friendships were formed. And just as the ancient Roman aristocracy loved to escape to the countryside, so our group enjoyed a splendid outing to and picnic at the nearby Dickinson College Farm. The farm is a model for sustainable agricultural practices and living.
This particular Latin convention is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for beginners in Latin. But readers who can read Latin well and enthusiastically should attend at least once. They will learn what a pleasure it is to bring this ancient language back to life.
Update on 3/16/14: I am successfully using active Latin in my own classes now. I am also sharing enthusiasm for spoken Latin with a wonder regional group, the Tidewater Classical Symposium.
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| "Nostra grex," or our class, stands in front of Althouse Hall, where our classes took place. |
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| Terence Tunberg of the University of Kentucky is not only fluent in Latin but an energetic and enthusiastic teacher |
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| Here is Terence Tunberg in a rarely-seen pensive moment. He is truly kind to his students |
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| Milena Minkova is Bulgarian by birth but is fluent in both English and Latin as well; she trained at the Vatican in Rome |
Some folks think Latin is called a dead language because nobody speaks it, or, worse, that it's impossible to speak. But that's simply not true.
Need proof? Click this link to watch Professor Tunberg at work (on another occasion).
The question of *why* folks desire to speak Latin is harder to explain. Some find that using the language actively helps them learn and retain it, others find it useful as a teaching technique, and some just find the spoken version of the language beautiful and fun. A few might like the challenge of proving it can be done.
Put me down for "all of the above."
Terence Tunberg told us that he wanted to experience Latin the way the great scholars of the Renaissance, men such as Erasmus, had experienced it, really not all that many centuries ago. It was a journey that took him to Germany to find the immersion experience he desired. After studying with him, I am very glad he found it.
The Conventiculum itself is a way to share enthusiasm with like-minded people. The participants are diverse in their experiences and interests, but all are interesting, intelligent, and fun to be around. One, nicknamed "Petrus Australianus," journeys every summer to this Latin-speaking convention as well as to other ones in the U.S. and abroad.
All the way from Australia, every summer, just to attend!
And Petrus is kind enough to carry around a little pouch full of plastic toy Australian animals just so we can talk in Latin about kangaroos, platypuses, Tasmanian devils, etc.
It's certainly nice to be around folks who get the T-shirts, jokes, and riddles:
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| Here is a riddle written and solved by classmates |
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| Here is a second riddle written in Latin |
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| This third Latin riddle alludes to a character from Greek mythology (Oops! No more hints!) |
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| This T-shirt translates into Latin an old joke by Groucho Marx |
Not all our learning took place in classrooms, however. Participants had sworn a solemn oath to speak nothing but Latin to each other until the Conventiculum was over. So at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as in the residence halls, lively conversations took place and friendships were formed. And just as the ancient Roman aristocracy loved to escape to the countryside, so our group enjoyed a splendid outing to and picnic at the nearby Dickinson College Farm. The farm is a model for sustainable agricultural practices and living.
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| Housing on Dickinson College Farm allows a few lucky(?) individuals to live "off the grid" |
This particular Latin convention is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for beginners in Latin. But readers who can read Latin well and enthusiastically should attend at least once. They will learn what a pleasure it is to bring this ancient language back to life.
Update on 3/16/14: I am successfully using active Latin in my own classes now. I am also sharing enthusiasm for spoken Latin with a wonder regional group, the Tidewater Classical Symposium.
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