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Category Archives: Latin

Praise for children

An early Latin inscription celebrates a freedwoman who lost six children but whose virtue was rewarded with manumission.

Posted bygsb03632February 20, 2022Posted incemeteries, Latin, photographyTags: Beneventum, CIL I2 3197, freedwoman, hexameter, Latin, Museo di Sannio, pentameter, poetry, Roman funerary practices, Roman verse inscriptionsLeave a comment on Praise for children

We all die, so have a drink while you can

Pop open a cold one and read a Roman tombstone with me.

Posted bygsb03632February 18, 2022February 18, 2022Posted incemeteries, Italian, Latin, photography, poetryTags: freedwoman, iambic senarius, Latin, long I, Minturnae, Roman Empire, Roman verse inscriptions1 Comment on We all die, so have a drink while you can

A cultivated personality and a blithe spirit

It’s either né and née or natus and nata. Do or do not do: there is no ‘try’.

Posted bygsb03632July 29, 2021Posted incemeteries, Latin, photographyTags: Berwick PA, genealogy, Pine Grove Cemetery, YodaLeave a comment on A cultivated personality and a blithe spirit

Latinists take note

Fetch your glasses and have a whack at this epitaph.

Posted bygsb03632June 11, 2021Posted incemeteries, Latin, UncategorizedTags: epitaph, humor, satire2 Comments on Latinists take note

Missteps

Loss and attendant grief are terrible things, and to combat them some survivors attempt to distract themselves by entering wholeheartedly into “a project” of commemoration.

Posted bygsb03632July 11, 2020July 12, 2020Posted inarchitecture, cemeteries, landscape architecture, Latin, McMansionTags: Doric order, Norristown PA, Riverside Cemetery, William Wetmore Story1 Comment on Missteps

Marywood University Rotunda

Five Latin inscriptions make the Marywood Rotunda stand out!

Posted bygsb03632June 26, 2020August 16, 2020Posted inarchitecture, Latin, Marywood, public art, ScrantonTags: Corinthian order, Latin, Marywood University, Pantheon, Scranton PA, Tower of the Winds, U.S. Capitol3 Comments on Marywood University Rotunda

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

Charles Harris McPhail’s mourners drew on their classical education to commemorate him.

Posted bygsb03632May 26, 2020March 26, 2021Posted incemeteries, Confederate, Latin, U.S. Civil WarTags: Confederate, Dulce et decorum est, Hollywood Cemetery, Horace, LatinLeave a comment on Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

Damn, Damn, Damn!

Memoria damnata in this monument from Alexandria, VA.

Posted bygsb03632April 12, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, LatinTags: Alexandria VA, Civil War, Corinth, damnatio memoriae, Freemasonry, Marcus Antonius cos. 99, Mark Antony, memoria damnata, Presbyterian Cemetery, Presbyterianism, Scotland, Worshipful MasterLeave a comment on Damn, Damn, Damn!

Also a client . . . .

Thoughts provoked by my parents’ cemetery marker.

Posted bygsb03632January 24, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, Latin, poetryTags: CIL VIII 1027, epigram, Greenmount Cemetery, hexameter, Latin, poetry, San Diego1 Comment on Also a client . . . .

The tree is known by its fruit.

Lambert Tree hoped to be known by his fruit!

Posted bygsb03632January 12, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, LatinTags: Latin, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C.Leave a comment on The tree is known by its fruit.

John Christopher Thomas

Some Latin consoled the parents of the luckless John Thomas.

Posted bygsb03632November 19, 2019June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, LatinTags: Baltimore MD, Bible, Green Mount Cemetery, infant mortality, Latin3 Comments on John Christopher Thomas

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