The girl and her suitor (Erasmus, Colloquia Familiaria)

This is a rather racy dialogue from Erasmus’ Colloquia Scholastica (1536). A discussion of the colloquia and link to the full text can be found here.

A Girl with a Birdcage and a SuitorAntoine Pesne (1683–1757) (after) National Trust, Wimpole Hall

Pesne, Antoine; A Girl with a Birdcage and a Suitor; National Trust, Wimpole Hall; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/a-girl-with-a-birdcage-and-a-suitor-171663

Proci et puellae

Personae

Pamphilus, Maria.

Pamphilus

Salve crudelis, salve ferrea, salve adamantina.

Maria

Salve tandem et tu Pamphile, quoties et quantum voles, et quocunque libet nomine. Sed interim mihi videris oblitus nominis mei; Maria vocor.

Pamphilus

At Martiam dici oportuit.

Maria

Quid ita, quaeso? Quid mihi cum Marte?

Pamphilus

Quia quemadmodum illi deo pro ludo est, homines interficere, ita et tibi: nisi quod tu Marte crudelior occidis etiam amantem.

Maria

Bona verba. Ubinam strages ista mortalium, quos ego occidi? Ubi sanguis interfectorum?

Pamphilus

Unum cadaver vides exanime, si modo me vides.

Maria

Quid ego audio? Mortuus loqueris, et obambulas? utinam mihi nunquam occurrant umbrae formidabiliores!

Pamphilus

Ludis tu quidem; tamen interim miserum exanimas, et crudelius occidis, quam si confoderes telo. Nunc longo cruciatu excarnificor miser.

Maria

Eho, dic, quot gravidae ad tuum occursum abortierunt?

Pamphilus

Atqui pallor arguit exsanguem magis, quam ulla sit umbra.

Maria

Atqui iste pallor tinctus est viola. Sic palles ut cerasus maturescens, aut uva purpurascens.

Pamphilus

Satis procaciter rides miserum.

Maria

Atqui si mihi non credis, admove speculum.

Pamphilus

Non optarim aliud speculum; nec arbitror esse clarius ullum, quam in quo me nunc contemplor.

Maria

Quod speculum mihi narras?

Pamphilus

Oculos tuos.

Maria

Argutator, ut semper, tui similis es! Sed unde doces esse exanimem te? An cibum capiunt umbrae?

Pamphilus

Capiunt, sed insipidum, qualem ego.

Maria

Quibus igitur vescuntur?

Pamphilus

Malvis, porris, et lupinis.

Maria

Atqui tu non abstines a capis et perdicibus.

Pamphilus

Verum; sed interim nihilo plus sapiunt palato meo, quam si malvis vescerer, aut betis absque pipere, vino et aceto.

Maria

O te miserum! et tamen interim obesulus es. An et loquuntur exanimes?

Pamphilus

Sic ut ego, voce perquam exili.

Maria

Atqui nuper quum audirem te conviciantem rivali tuo, vox non erat admodum exilis. Sed obsecro te, num etiam ambulant umbrae? num vestiuntur? num dormiunt?

Pamphilus

Etiam coeunt, sed suo more.

Maria

Nae tu suavis nugator es.

Pamphilus

Sed quid dices, si argumentis Achilleis evincam, et me esse mortuum et te esse homicidam?

Maria

Absit omen, Pamphile: sed aggredere sophisma.

Pamphilus

Primum illud mihi donabis, opinor, mortem nihil aliud esse, quam abductionem animae a corpore.

Maria

Largior.

Pamphilus

Sed ita, ut ne reposcas, quod dederis.

Maria

Non fiet.

Pamphilus

Tum haud inficiaberis, eum qui alteri adimit animam, homicidam esse.

Maria

Accedo.

Pamphilus

Concedes et illud, quod, a gravissimis auctoribus dictum, tot seculorum suffragiis comprobatum est, animam hominis non illic esse ubi animat, sed ubi amat.

Maria

Istuc explana crassius: non enim satis assequor, quid velis.

Pamphilus

Et hoc sum infelicior, quod istuc non aeque sentis atque ego.

Maria

Fac ut sentiam.

Pamphilus

Eadem opera fac ut sentiat adamas.

Maria

Equidem puella sum, non lapis.

Pamphilus

Verum: sed adamante durior.

Maria

Sed perge colligere.

Pamphilus

Qui corripiuntur afflatu divino, nec audiunt, nec vident, nec olfaciunt, nec sentiunt, etiamsi occidas.

Maria

Audivi sane.

Pamphilus

Quid coniectas esse in caussa?

Maria

Dic tu, philosophe.

Pamphilus

Nimirum quoniam animus est in coelis, ubi habet quod vehementer amat, et abest a corpore.

Maria

Quid tum postea?

Pamphilus

Quid tum, dura? Illud consequitur, et me esse mortuum, et te esse homicidam.

Maria

Ubi est igitur anima tua?

Pamphilus

Illic ubi amat.

Maria

Quis autem ademit tibi animam? quid suspiras? Dic libere, dices impune.

Pamphilus

Crudelissima quaedam puella, quam ego tamen ne mortuus quidem odisse possum.

Maria

Humanum ingenium. Sed cur illi vicissim non adimis suam animam, par pari, quod aiunt, referens?

Pamphilus

Nihil me felicius, si quidem liceat facere permutationem, sic ut illius animus vicissim demigret in pectus meum, quemadmodum meus animus totus demigravit in corpus illius.

Maria

At licetne mihi tecum vicissim sophistam agere?

Pamphilus

Sophistriam.

Maria

Num fieri potest, ut idem corpus sit animatum, et exanime?

Pamphilus

Non eodem quidem tempore.

Maria

Quum abest anima, tum mortuum est corpus?

Pamphilus

Est.

Maria

Nec animat, nisi quum adest?

Pamphilus

Esto sane.

Maria

Qui fit igitur, ut, quum ibi sit, ubi amat, animet tamen corpus, unde demigravit? Quod si animat, etiam quum amat alibi, quomodo vocatur exanime corpus, quod animatum est?

Pamphilus

Argutare tu quidem satis sophistice; sed me talibus pedicis non capies. Anima, quae moderatur utcunque corpus animantis, improprie dicitur anima, quum revera sint tenues quaedam animae reliquiae; non aliter quam odor rosarum manet in manu, etiam rosa submota.

Maria

Difficile est, ut video, vulpem capere laqueo. Sed illud responde: Nonne agit, qui occidit?

Pamphilus

Maxime.

Maria

Et patitur, qui occiditur?

Pamphilus

Scilicet.

Maria

Qui fit igitur, ut, quum qui amat, agat, quae amatur, patiatur, occidere dicatur, quae amatur, quum amans potius occidat seipsum?

Pamphilus

Imo contra; qui amat patitur: quae amatur, agit.

Maria

Istuc nunquam evinces apud Areopagitas Grammaticos.

Pamphilus

At evincam apud Amphictyones Dialecticos.

Maria

Verum ne graveris et illud respondere. Volens amas, an nolens?

Pamphilus

Volens.

Maria

Quum igitur liberum sit non amare, videtur homicida, quisquis amat; praeterque ius accusat puellam.

Pamphilus

Atqui puella non ideo occidit quod amatur, sed quod non amat mutuum. Occidit autem; quisquis servare potest, nec servat.

Maria

Quid si iuvenis amet inconcessa, hoc est, uxorem alienam, aut virginem Vestalem? num illa amabit mutuum, ut servet amantem?

Pamphilus

Sed hic iuvenis amat, quod amare fas piumque est, atque etiam aequum et bonum, et tamen occiditur. Quod si leve est homicidii crimen, et veneficii ream peragam.

Maria

Istuc prohibeant superi. An Circen quampiam ex me facies?

Pamphilus

Aliquid et ista crudelius. Nam porcus aut ursus esse malim, quam id quod nunc sum, exanimis.

Maria

Quo tandem veneficii genere perdo homines?

Pamphilus

Fascino.

Maria

An igitur vis, ut posthac abs te deflectam noxios oculos?

Pamphilus

Bona verba. Imo magis afflecte.

Maria

Si mihi sunt oculi fascinatores, qui fit, ut non contabescant et ceteri, quos obtueor? Itaque suspicor fascinum istud esse in tuis oculis, non in meis.

Pamphilus

Non sat tibi erat iugulare Pamphilum, ni insultes insuper?

Maria

O lepidum mortuum! Sed quando parabuntur exsequiae?

Pamphilus

Opinione tua celerius, ni tu succurras.

Maria

Egon’ rem tantam possum?

Pamphilus

Potes vel mortuum ad vitam revocare, idque minimo negotio.

Maria

Si quis mihi porrigat panacen.

Pamphilus

Nihil opus herbis; tantum redama. Quid autem facilius, imo quid aequius? Non aliter absolveris ab homicidii crimine.

Maria

Apud quod tribunal peragar rea? Areopagitarum?

Pamphilus

Non; sed apud tribunal Veneris.

Maria

Aiunt deam esse placabilem.

Pamphilus

Imo nullius ira perinde formidabilis.

Maria

Habet fulmen?

Pamphilus

Non.

Maria

Habet tridentem?

Pamphilus

Nequaquam.

Maria

Habet hastam?

Pamphilus

Minime, sed est dea maris.

Maria

Non navigo.

Pamphilus

Sed habet puerum.

Maria

Non est formidabilis aetas.

Pamphilus

Vindicem ac pervicacem.

Maria

Quid is mihi faciet?

Pamphilus

Quid faciet? Prohibeant omnes superi. Nolim enim illi malum ominari, cui bene volo.

Maria

Tamen effare; nulla mihi superstitio est.

Pamphilus

Dicam ergo. Si hunc spreveris amantem non omnino mutuo indignum amore, nisi fallor, ille fortasse iussu matris immittet tibi pessimo veneno tinctum iaculum, ut in sordidum aliquem depereas, qui te tamen non redamet.

Maria

Supplicium narras abominandum. Ego sane vel mori praeoptarim, quam perdite amare deformem, nec amore mutuo respondentem.

Pamphilus

Atqui nuper huius mali fuit exemplum insigniter editum in puellam quandam.

Maria

Ubi locorum?

Pamphilus

Aureliae.

Maria

Quot anni sunt?

Pamphilus

Quot anni? vix sunt menses decem.

Maria

Puellae quod erat nomen? Quid haeres?

Pamphilus

Nihil; novi tanquam te.

Maria

Quin igitur edis nomen?

Pamphilus

Quia non placet omen. Utinam alio quovis nomine dicta fuisset. Idem habebat nomen quod tu.

Maria

Pater quis erat?

Pamphilus

Vivit adhuc inter iureconsultos praecipui nominis, re splendida.

Maria

Adde nomen.

Pamphilus

Mauritius.

Maria

Cognomen.

Pamphilus

Aglaius.

Maria

Vivitne mater?

Pamphilus

Nuper reliquit superos.

Maria

Quo morbo periit?

Pamphilus

Quo morbo rogas? moerore. Et pater, tametsi vir cum primis fortis, periclitabatur.

Maria

Licetne scire matris quoque nomen?

Pamphilus

Maxime. Sophronam nemo non novit. Sed quid sibi vult ista percunctatio? An me putas apologum comminisci?

Maria

Egone de te suspicarer hoc? Haec suspicio pronior est in sexum nostrum. Sed narra, quid acciderit puellae.

Pamphilus

Puella erat honesto loco nata, ut dixi, re lauta, forma perquam eleganti: qui multis? digna principe marito. Huius nuptias ambiebat procus quidam illi non dissimilis.

Maria

Quo nomine?

Pamphilus

Hei mihi, offendor omine; Pamphilus et ille dictus est. Illa nihil non tentantem pertinacissime sprevit. Iuvenis dolore contabuit. Nec ita multo post illa deperire coepit in quendam, simium verius quam hominem.

Maria

Quid ais?

Pamphilus

Adeo perdite, ut satis dici non queat.

Maria

Tam elegans puella tam deformem?

Pamphilus

Vertice acuminato, raro capillitio, eoque lacero et impexo, furfure ac lendibus oppleto: pleramque cranii cutem nudaverat alopecia; oculis refugis, naribus simis ac sursum hiantibus, ore sparso, dentibus putridis, balbutiente lingua, mento scabioso; scapulas deformabat gibbus; venter prominulus, crura vara.

Maria

Thersiten quempiam mihi depingis.

Pamphilus

Imo aiunt, illi non fuisse nisi unam auriculam.

Maria

Altera perierat illi fortasse in bello.

Pamphilus

Imo in pace.

Maria

Quis hoc ausus est?

Pamphilus

Dionysius carnifex.

Maria

Fortasse formae infelicitatem pensabat res ampla domi?

Pamphilus

Imo decoxerat, ac plus quam animam debebat. Cum hoc marito tam insignis puella nunc degit aetatem, ac subinde vapulat.

Maria

Rem miseram narras.

Pamphilus

Sed veram. Sic visum est Nemesi iuvenis spreti contumeliam ulcisci.

Maria

Ego citius optarem exstingui fulmine, quam talem ferre maritum.

Pamphilus

Ergo ne provoca Nemesim, et amantem redama.

Maria

Si quidem istuc satis est, redamo.

Pamphilus

Sed optarim istum amorem esse perpetuum ac proprium: coniugem ambio, non amicam.

Maria

Neque me id fugit; sed diu deliberandum est in eo, quod semel coeptum rescindi non potest.

Pamphilus

Apud me quidem nimium diu deliberatum est.

Maria

Vide autem, ne tibi imponat amor, non optimus consultor. Nam caecum esse ferunt.

Pamphilus

Sed oculatus est, qui ex iudicio nascitur. Non ideo mihi talis videris, quod amem te; sed ideo te amo, quod talem te conspexerim.

Maria

At vide, ne non satis me perspectam habeas. Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires, qua parte te urgeret.

Pamphilus

Iacienda est alea; quanquam ego multis auguriis colligo rem melius cessuram.

Maria

Etiam augur es?

Pamphilus

Sum.

Maria

Quibus igitur auguriis colligis? An volavit noctua?

Pamphilus

Illa volat stultis.

Maria

An a dextris advolavit iugum columbarum?

Pamphilus

Nihil istiusmodi. Sed mihi iam annis aliquot perspecta est probitas tuorum parentum: ea primum avis est non pessima, e bonis prognatam esse. Neque me clam est, quam salubribus monitis, quam sanctis exemplis apud hos sis instituta. Et plus est bene institui, quam bene nasci. Habes alterum augurium. Ad haec meis maioribus non omnino malis, ni fallor, iam olim cum tuis amicitia non vulgaris intercedit: quin et nos inter nos a teneris, quod aiunt, unguiculis noti sumus; nec male convenit geniis nostris. Iam aetas inter nos, res, dignitas, nobilitas, inter utriusque parentes paene paria sunt. Demum, quod est in amicitia praecipuum, tui mores mihi videntur non pessime quadrare ad meum ingenium. Potest enim per se praeclarum esse, quod tamen non sit aptum. Quam mei vicissim tuo congruant, nescio. Hae videlicet aves, mea lux, mihi promittunt fore inter nos felix, perpetuum ac laetum iucundumque connubium, modo ne tuus animus mali ominis cantionem nobis occinat.

Maria

Quam cantilenam optas?

Pamphilus

Ego praecinam: Sum tuus; tu succine: Sum tua.

Maria

Brevis quidem cantiuncula; sed longum habet epiphonema.

Pamphilus

Quid refert, quam longum, modo laetum?

Maria

Adeo mihi es invisus, ut nolim te committere, cuius in posterum poeniteat.

Pamphilus

Desine male ominari.

Maria

Fortassis alia tibi videbor, ubi morbus aut aetas hanc formam immutarit.

Pamphilus

Nec hoc corpus, o bona, semper erit aeque succulentum. Sed ego non contemplor tantum istud undique florens et elegans domicilium, hospitem magis adamo.

Maria

Quem hospitem?

Pamphilus

Animum istum tuum, cuius decor semper cum aetate crescet.

Maria

Nae tu plus quam Lynceus es, si istum perspicis per tot tectoria.

Pamphilus

Animum animo perspicio. Ad haec, in communibus liberis subinde repubescemus.

Maria

Sed interim perit virginitas.

Pamphilus

Verum. Sed eho, dic mihi, si tibi esset elegans pomarium, optares illic nihil unquam gigni praeter flores: an malles, delapsis floribus, videre arbores maturis pomis gravidas?

Maria

Ut argutatur!

Pamphilus

Saltem illud responde, utrum est elegantius spectaculum, vitis humi iacens et computrescens, an amplexa palum aut ulmum, eamque purpureis uvis degravans?

Maria

Responde tu mihi vicissim, utrum spectaculum amoenius, rosa nitens et lactea in suo frutice, an decerpta digitis ac paullatim marcescens?

Pamphilus

Ego rosam existimo feliciorem, quae marcescit in hominis manu, delectans interim et oculos et nares, quam quae senescit in frutice: nam et illic futurum erat, ut marcesceret; quemadmodum felicius est vinum, quod bibitur antequam acescat. Quanquam non statim marcescit flos puellae, si nupserit: imo video, multas, quae ante nuptias pallebant, languebant, ac velut extabescebant, ex congressu viri sic enituisse, ut tum demum florere coeperint.

Maria

Attamen favorabilis ac plausibilis apud omnes est virginitas.

Pamphilus

Elegans quidem res puella virgo: sed quid iuxta naturam prodigiosius anu virgine? Nisi matri tuae defluxisset flos ille, nos istum flosculum non haberemus. Quod si, ut spero, non sterile fuerit nostrum coniugium, pro una virgine multas dabimus.

Maria

Attamen aiunt, rem Deo gratissimam esse castitatem.

Pamphilus

Et ideo castam puellam mihi cupio nubere, ut cum illa caste vivam. Magis erit animorum quam corporum coniugium. Gignemus Reipublicae, gignemus Christo. Quantulum aberit hoc matrimonium a virginitate? Et fortasse olim sic convivemus, quemadmodum vixit cum Maria Ioseph. Sed interim discemus virginitatem. Non enim statim pervenitur ad summum.

Maria

Quid ego audio? Violanda virginitas, ut discatur?

Pamphilus

Quidni? Quemadmodum paulatim bibendo vinum parcius, discimus esse abstemii. Uter tibi videtur temperantior, qui in mediis deliciis accumbens abstinet, an qui semotus ab his, quae provocant intemperantiam?

Maria

Arbitror eum fortius temperantem, quem parata copia non potest corrumpere.

Pamphilus

Utri verius debetur laus castitatis, eine qui semet exsecat, an qui membris integris, tamen abstinet a Venere?

Maria

Equidem posteriori, meo calculo, tribuerim laudem castitatis, priori dementiam.

Pamphilus

An qui voto adstricti abiurant matrimonium, nonne quodam modo exsecant sese?

Maria

Videtur.

Pamphilus

Iam non est virtus non coire.

Maria

At non est?

Pamphilus

Sic accipe. Si per se virtus esset non coire, vitium esset coire. Nunc incidit, ut vitium sit non coire, coire virtus.

Maria

Quando hoc incidit?

Pamphilus

Quoties ab uxore ius suum petit maritus, praesertim si prolis amore quaerit complexum.

Maria

Quid si lasciviat? non est fas negari?

Pamphilus

Fas est monere, vel rogare potius blandius, ut temperet: pernegare instanti, fas non est. Quanquam hac quidem in parte raras audio querelas maritorum de suis uxoribus.

Maria

At dulcis est libertas.

Pamphilus

Imo gravis est sarcina virginitas. Ego tibi rex ero, tu mihi regina: imperabimus familiae nostro arbitratu: an tibi videtur ista esse servitus?

Maria

Vulgus coniugium capistrum vocat.

Pamphilus

Sed ipsi vero capistro digni sunt, qui sic vocant. Dic mihi, quaeso, an non animus tuus est alligatus corpori?

Maria

Videtur.

Pamphilus

Non aliter quam avicula caveae. Et tamen consule illum, an cupiat esse liber. Negabit, opinor. Quam ob rem? Quia libenter est alligatus.

Maria

Res est utrinque modica.

Pamphilus

Tanto tutior. Eam tu domi augebis parsimonia, quae non sine caussa dicta est magnum vectigal; ego foris industria.

Maria

Innumeras curas secum adferunt liberi.

Pamphilus

Sed iidem innumeras voluptates, ac saepenumero multo cum foenore reponunt parentibus officium.

Maria

Misera quaedam res est orbitas.

Pamphilus

An nunc orba non es? Quid autem opus in re dubia male ominari? Dic mihi, utrum malles nunquam nasci, an nasci moritura?

Maria

Equidem malim nasci moritura.

Pamphilus

Sic miserior est orbitas, quae prolem nec habuit, nec habitura est quemadmodum feliciores sunt, qui vixerunt, quam qui nec nati sunt, nec nascentur unquam.

Maria

Qui sunt isti, qui non sunt, nec erunt?

Pamphilus

Quanquam qui recusat ferre casus humanos, quibus omnes ex aequo sumus obnoxii, sive plebeii sumus, sive reges, is e vita migret oportet; et tamen quidquid acciderit, tu non feres nisi dimidium, ego maiorem portionem in me transferam. Ita si quid acciderit laeti, gemina fiet voluptas, si quid mali, societas adimet dimidium aegritudinis. Mihi vero, si fata vocent, dulce fuerit vel immori tuis complexibus.

Maria

Facilius ferunt homines, quod iuxta communes naturae leges accidit; sed video, quanto plus molestiarum adferunt nonnullis parentibus liberorum mores, quam mortes.

Pamphilus

Istius rei ne quid accidat, maxima ex parte in nobis situm est.

Maria

Qui sic?

Pamphilus

Quoniam fere boni nascuntur ex bonis, quod ad indolem attinet. Neque enim e columbis nascuntur milvii. Dabimus igitur operam, ut ipsi boni simus. Deinde curabimus liberos nostros ab ipso statim lacte sanctis praeceptis et opinionibus imbuendos. Plurimum refert, quid infundas rudi testulae. Ad haec curabimus, ut domi habeant exemplum vitae, quod imitentur.

Maria

Difficile est quod narras.

Pamphilus

Nec mirum; quia pulchrum est: atque ob hoc ipsum tu quoque difficilis es. At tanto studiis acrioribus huc enitemur.

Maria

Habebis sequacem materiam; tu vide, ut me formes fingasque.

Pamphilus

Sed interim pronuntia tria verba.

Maria

Nihil facilius; sed verba simulatque semel evolarint, non revolant. Dabo consilium utrique commodius. Ages cum tuis ac meis parentibus, ut utrorumque voluntate res transigatur.

Pamphilus

Ambire me iubes: tu potes tribus verbis rem certam reddere.

Maria

An possim, nescio: mei iuris non sum. Nec sine maiorum auctoritate olim coibant coniugia. Verum, utcunque est, arbitror, auspicatius fore nostrum coniugium, si parentum auctoritate coëat. Et vestrum est ambire, nobis decorum non est. Gaudet enim rapi virginitas, etiamsi nonnunquam vehementius amemus.

Pamphilus

Non pigebit ambire, modo ne me frustretur tuum unius suffragium.

Maria

Non frustrabitur; bono animo esto, mi Pamphile.

Pamphilus

Tu mihi heic religiosior es, quam vellem.

Maria

Imo tu tuum ipsius suffragium apud te prius expende. Nec affectum istum tuum adhibe in consilium, sed rationem. Quod affectus decernit, temporarium est: quod autem dictat ratio, perpetuo solet placere.

Pamphilus

Nae tu pulchre philosopharis; itaque parere certum est tuis consiliis.

Maria

Non poenituerit obsequii. Sed heus tu, incidit interim scrupulus, qui meum animum male habet.

Pamphilus

Valeant scrupuli.

Maria

Vin’ me nubere mortuo?

Pamphilus

Nequaquam sed revixero.

Maria

Amovisti scrupulum. Bene vale, mi Pamphile.

Pamphilus

Istuc tu cura.

Maria

Precor tibi laetam noctem. Quid suspiras?

Pamphilus

Laetam noctem ais? Utinam largiare, quod precaris.

Maria

Ne quid praepropere; adhuc tua messis in herba est.

Pamphilus

Nihilne tui mecum auferam?

Maria

Hunc pastillum, qui tibi cor exhilaret.

Pamphilus

Adde saltem osculum.

Maria

Cupio tibi virginitatem integram et illibatam tradere.

Pamphilus

An osculum aliquid decerpit virginitati?

Maria

Vis igitur, ut aliis quoque largiar oscula?

Pamphilus

Nequaquam: mihi servari volo mea oscula.

Maria

Tibi servo. Quanquam est aliud, cur in praesentia nec ausim dare osculum.

Pamphilus

Quid istuc?

Maria

Ais, tuum animum paene totum demigrasse in corpus meum; in tuo quam minimum superesse: vereor itaque, ne in osculo hoc ipsum; quod in te superest, transiliat in me, tuque iam totus fias exanimis. Accipe igitur dextram, mutui amoris symbolum, ac bene vale. Tu gnaviter rem gere. Ego interim Christum comprecabor, ut, quod agitur, utrique nostrum velit esse felix ac faustum.

Aeneid Progress

Thanks to a very talented group of students under the supervision of Dr. Lucy McInerney (B.A. Dickinson ’15, PhD Brown ’24), the DCC edition of Vergil’s Aeneid is now complete through Book 2. The initial release back in 2016 only covered the then AP selections. It was always my intent to expand the coverage, and the opportunity to complete Books 1 and 2 came this summer (2024) with the pilot Dickinson College Commentaries High School Online Internship Program. 

The inaugural 2024 program served a total of 24 students over the period June 24 through August 2. Five were rising juniors (class of ’26), 16 were rising seniors (’25), and three had just graduated. Ten were from public schools, 10 from private schools, and 4 from parochial schools. The states represented were PA (7), NY (5), MA (4), NC (3), CA (2), TN (2), and VA (1).

Two  groups (of four total) worked with Lucy on gathering notes for the Aeneid. They drew on a variety of published and public domain commentaries. They met on Zoom five days per week for 50 minutes and read Latin and chose and edited notes on their own, before and after the daily sessions. They completed the so-far uncommented selections of Books 1 (177 lines) and 2 (330 lines). The group from Book 1 finished early and was able to do some final proofreading on the work done by the Book 2 group. Lucy cleaned up the results, and I did a final editing pass, adding some hyperlinks, fixing formatting, and adding a few notes of my own where I thought they were needed.

Huge thanks are due to the students and their teachers:

The Book 1 group was Felix Chen (The Harker Upper School, San Jose, CA, teacher Scott Paterson), Victoria Greco and Madeline LaJoy (Shenendehowa High School, Clifton Park, NY, teacher Keziah Armstrong), and Bridget Bauman (East Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, teacher Jenni Hoffman).

Zoom group of 8 or so people

The Book 2 group was Maeve Cannon and Imaan Ansari (Trinity School in New York, NY, teachers Peter Aronoff and Eric Casey), Lily Moore (San Luis Obispo Classical Academy High School, teachers Sarah Weinschenk [Dickinson ’84] and Pamela Bleisch), Thea Blakley (Central Magnet School, Murfreesboro, TN, teacher Lindley Henson), and Xan Matuch (The Haverford School, Haverford, PA, teacher Andrew Fenton).

Dickinson Summer Greek Workshop 2023: Plutarch, Bravery of Women

DICKINSON SUMMER GREEK WORKSHOP: JULY 17-21, 2023 

Format: online only

Moderators: Prof. Mallory Monaco Caterine (Tulane University) and Prof. Scott Farrington (Dickinson College) 

Our text for 2023 is Plutarch’s Mulierum Virtutes (“Bravery of Women”). Unlike Thucydides’ Pericles, Plutarch believed that the names of virtuous women ought to be widely known, and he produced this book, he tells us, to prove that womanly virtue and manly virtue are one and the same. Join us and delight in unsurpassed examples of courage and bravery from all over the ancient world. Learn how the Trojan women selected the site of Rome, how the women of Salmantica faced down Hannibal’s thugs, and how Valeria and Cloelia escaped the grip of Tarquin’s sons.

Photo of a smiling Mallory Monaco Caterine in a dress

Mallory Monaco Caterine, Tulane University (PhD, Classics, 2013. Princeton University) Image source: Tulane University.

We will read the Greek text with vocabulary lists in the style of the Dickinson College Commentaries. We hope that this workshop will lead to the creation of a new commentary for DCC, and workshop participants will be invited to participate in that project. 

The workshop will take place on Zoom from 1:00 to 4:30  p.m. Eastern Time, US. 

TO APPLY: please email Mrs. Stephanie Dyson, Classical Studies Academic Department Coordinator (dysonst@dickinson.edu). Include your email and the name of the workshop you plan to attend. A non-refundable fee of $200.00 is due by June 1, 2023, in the form of a check made out to Dickinson College, mailed to Stephanie Dyson, Department of Classical Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA 17013. 

 

What would you like to see on DCC?

The 2023 meeting of the DCC Editorial Board centered around the creation of a wish list of texts that you, the discerning and valued DCC user, would like to see on the site. Quite a bit, including all of Eutropius, is in the pipeline. To get you thinking, here are some of the ideas we discussed. Please add your own thoughts in the comments here, send them to the DCC email account, (dickinsoncommentaries at gmail.com), or contact us via Twitter (@DCComm) or Facebook.

We began with the evident need for second-year Greek texts that are easier to read than, say, Plato. The lack of such texts results in much frustration at the lower intermediate level.

  • Aesop’s fables.
  • Selections from Apollodorus’ Library for the high-interest mythological content and the abundance of participles.
  • Short and self-contained mythological narratives to be found in the Greek scholia. Much of the Homer and Euripides scholia are already online.

On the Latin side, much interesting Neo-Latin is right there for the editing:

  • Rusticatio Mexicana as an excellent text both for its vivid descriptions of Mexico and because it is the first source for certain Native American legends.
  • Sepulveda’s De Orbe Novo treats its subject in excellent Latin.
  • Latin by women: the phenomenal Elizabeth Jane Westonet aliae
  • Latin translations of Greek classics, many of which exist in high quality early modern translations. Erasmus, for example, made verse translations of Greek tragedies that are excellent.
  • Bilingual Latin editions of the Chinese classics, or the Koran.

We’re all for expanding the canon, but site analytics show that canonical authors are the most popular. What about:

  • More Vergil. All of the Aeneid? Eclogues and Georgics? (Some are in the pipeline)
  • Some Plato. He’s as relevant as ever, but we have none. There are many public domain editions from which to draw notes.
  • Catullus. Some have found that even Garrison’s student-friendly edition does not provide enough help.

By far the most popular part of the site is not the commentaries but the reference works, like the core vocabularies, and above all Allen & Greenough’s Latin Grammar, which gets about 40% of our traffic. Should we go for more higher quality re-packaging of hard-to-use Perseus content, like

Please do send us your thoughts, and when the time is right I will report back with the results in this space. There’s no telling what we will actually have the ability to produce, but with so many options, it will be very helpful indeed to have your suggestions.

Zoom boxes with faces of DCC editorial board members

Attendees of the 2023 DCC editorial board meeting.

 

Dickinson Digital Latin Workshop July 12-15, 2023

What: Dickinson Digital Latin Workshop

When: July 12-15, 2023

Where: Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (in person only)

Intended for: all Latin teachers and students over 18 year of age. Requires no prior experience with computer programming. Intermediate and advanced programmers will still benefit from rethinking coding fundamentals through either a philological or a pedagogical lens.

Registration and fees: to register, please email Mrs. Stephanie Dyson, Classical Studies Academic Department Coordinator (dysonst@dickinson.edu) with your email address and the name of the workshop you plan to attend. A non-refundable fee of $200 is due by June 1, 2023 in the form of a check made out to Dickinson College, mailed to Stephanie Dyson, Department of Classical Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA 17013.  The fee includes lodging in campus housing (and please note that lodging will be in a student residence near the site of the sessions), two meals (breakfast and lunch) per day, as well as the opening dinner on the 12th.

Registered participants should plan to arrive in Carlisle, PA on July 12, in time to attend the first event of the seminar. This first event is an opening dinner and welcoming reception for all participants, which will begin at 6:00 p.m. The actual workshop sessions will begin early the next morning, on Thursday, July 13. The final event will be lunch on Saturday, July 15.

Content: 

  • teaches fundamentals of computational text analysis in the Python programming language using a corpus-driven, “exploratory” approach with activities focused on vocabulary and other formal textual features.
  • introduces participants to the basics of computer programming while also demonstrating how learning to code can help with everyday tasks in the Latin classroom. Learn to write just enough code to build vocabulary lists, count frequent (and infrequent!) words, search texts in flexible and “fuzzy” ways, generate reading drills and exercises, build up a collection of word games, and more.
  • helps participants develop computational skills useful for working with projects such as Dickinson College Commentaries and The Bridge.

Instructor

Patrick J. Burns, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

headshot of man wearing glassesPatrick J. Burns is Associate Research Scholar for Digital Projects at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, working previously at the Quantitative Criticism Lab at the University of Texas at Austin and the Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab at Harvard University. Patrick is working an online book to be titled Exploratory Philology: Learning About Ancient Languages Through Computer Programming, a code-first introduction to Ancient Greek and Latin as well as a core contributor to the Classical Language Toolkit, a natural language processing framework for working with ancient-language text. Patrick has given workshops on digital and computational Classics topics at many venues, including Stanford, Yale, Dartmouth, NYU, Tufts, UT-Austin, Universität Rostock, and the Institute of Classical Studies.

Description

What is the best way for Latin teachers and students to get started with computational approaches to working with texts? This three-day workshop introduces participants to the basics of computer programming while also demonstrating how learning to code can help with everyday tasks in the Latin classroom. Learn to write just enough code to build vocabulary lists, count frequent (and infrequent!) words, search texts in flexible and “fuzzy” ways, generate reading drills and exercises, build up a collection of word games, and more.

The workshop builds on the forthcoming book Exploratory Philology: Learning About Ancient Languages Through Computer Programming, a collection of text-analysis experiments designed to introduce coding to anyone interested in the Latin language and its literature. Building on Nick Montfort’s exploratory paradigm of learning how to “think with computation” as well as Marina Umaschi Bers’ pedagogical work on “coding as a playground,” Exploratory Philology offers a code-first, immersive and improvisational way of working with ancient-language text such that mutually reinforces the reader’s language skills and programming skills. While drawing extensively on material from Exploratory Philology, this workshop reframes the experiments from the book to address the specific pedagogical interests of Latin teachers and students, including by helping participants develop computational skills useful for working with projects such as Dickinson College Commentaries and The Bridge.

Agenda/Activities

  • Day 1 (4 hours)
    • Workshop overview / introductions
    • Counting words, aka “exploratory philology” in medias res
    • What is “Exploratory Philology”?
    • Introduction to Classical Language Toolkit and CLTK Readers
    • Breaking texts into smaller units (paragraphs, sentences, words, characters, and more)
    • Making lists, making tables, making plots
  • Day 2 (4 hours)
    • The four Ds of Exploratory Philology w. coding activities
      • Describe: Counting specific terms, spec. animals, colors, and more in Virgil
      • Discover: Searching for alliteration in Ovid
      • Deform: Autogenerating Latin sentence drills using Cicero
      • Divert: Making Latin word scramble puzzles using Catullus
    • Participant “Free Play” with the 4 Ds / Presentation Development
    • Tips and tricks for Latin text analysis using the Natural Language Toolkit
  • Day 3 (2 hours)
    • Participant presentations
    • Workshop conclusion/overview and participant feedback

Materials

The workshop uses several hands-on coding activities designed to help participants learn to read, write, and refactor computer programs for philological and pedagogical ends. All materials for the workshop are developed as Jupyter code notebooks and will be hosted in a public GitHub repository for participants’ reference after the workshop. Participants will also have the option of consulting the Exploratory Philology online book for further skill development.

Participants

The workshop has been designed for Latin teachers and students who can benefit from working with Latin text at scale and with greater automaticity and flexibility. No prior experience with computer programming necessary. All materials are provided as working code that participants are encouraged to revise and refactor for their own research and pedagogical applications. While the workshop is written in a way to be open to participants with no prior computer programming experience, intermediate and advanced programmers will still benefit from rethinking coding fundamentals through either a philological or a pedagogical lens.

Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop 2023: Navigatio Brendani

Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop 2023: Navigatio Brendani

July 7-12, 2023

The Dickinson Workshops are mainly intended for teachers of Latin, to refresh the mind through study of an extended text, and to share experiences and ideas. Sometimes those who are not currently engaged in teaching have participated as well, including students, retirees, and those working towards teacher certification.

old book page with ship on top of large fish

St. Brendan and crew celebrate Easter on a whale.
Anonymous after Hendrick Goltzius, Stranded Whale at Zandvoort, 1594. Harvard Art Museum, Light Outerbridge Collection, Richard Norton Memorial Fund; British Library Manuscripts Harley 3244 & 4751.

The workshop will be conducted both in person and online. Participants may choose either option.

The text for 2023 is the legendary Christian tale of sea adventure, Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (“Voyage of St. Brendan the Abbot”). This Irish epic, a narrative masterpiece, was recorded in Latin prose sometime between the mid-8th and early 10th century. According to the Navigatio, Brendan makes an astonishing Atlantic journey with other monks to the “Promised Land of the Saints” (later identified possibly as the Canary Islands), which he reaches after a prolonged search. The Navigatio was enormously popular in the Middle Ages, surviving in about 125 manuscripts, and the story was retold in Anglo-Norman, Dutch, German, Venetian, Provençal, Catalan, Norse and English.

We will read the Latin text with the help of the new commentary and vocabulary by Prof. William Turpin (Swarthmore College), which is forthcoming in Dickinson College Commentaries.

Moderators:

William Turpin, The Scheuer Family Chair of Humanities, Swarthmore College

Christopher Francese, Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College

Dr. Meghan Reedy (D. Phil., Oxford)

Drs. Turpin and Francese will moderate the in-person sections, Dr. Reedy the online group.

The participation fee for each participant will $400 for those attending in person, $200 for those attending online. The $400 fee for in person attendees covers lodging, breakfast and lunch in the Dickinson cafeteria, the facilities fee, which allows access to the gym, fitness center, and the library, as well as wireless and wired internet access while on campus. The fee does not cover the costs of books or travel, or of dinners, which are typically eaten in the various restaurants in Carlisle. Please keep in mind that the participation fee, once it has been received by the seminar’s organizers, is not refundable. This is an administrative necessity.

Lodging: accommodations will be in a student residence hall near the site of the sessions. The building features suite-style configurations of two double rooms sharing a private bathroom, or one double and one single room sharing a private bathroom.

The first event will be an introductory dinner at 6:00 p.m., July 7. The final session ends at noon on July 12. Sessions will meet from 8:30 a.m. to noon each day, with the afternoons left free for preparation.

Registration and fees: to register, please email Mrs. Stephanie Dyson, Classical Studies Academic Department Coordinator (dysonst@dickinson.edu). Include your email and the name of the workshop you plan to attend. A non-refundable fee of $400 is due by June 1, 2023 in the form of a check made out to Dickinson College, mailed to Stephanie Dyson, Department of Classical Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA 17013. 

For more information please contact Prof. Chris Francese (francese@dickinson.edu)

Dickinson Summer Greek Workshop: July 18-22, 2022 

Dickinson Summer Greek Workshop: July 18-22, 2022 

Moderators: Prof. Scott Farrington and Dr. Taylor Coughlan 

Want to improve your reading fluency in Ancient Greek and learn more about ancient Greek culture? Please join us for the Dickinson Ancient Greek Workshop which will once again be held online this year. Though we’d prefer to welcome you all to campus, we hope that the greater flexibility of an online seminar will facilitate participation from people far and wide. 

marble head of an older man

Marble head of an old fisherman (1st–2rd century A.D.
Roman, copy of a Greek statue of the late 2nd century B.C. Metropolitan Museum, New York)

This year’s text will be Lysias 24, On the Refusal of a Disability Benefit. Sometime in the early fourth century BCE, an Athenian citizen appeared before the Council to defend his qualifications to receive an annual state disability benefit. Revealing much about the treatment and status of non-elite citizens under democracy in Athens, the disabled pensioner delivers an innovative speech unique for its rhetorical use of humor. The defendant batters his opponent with sarcastic barbs and makes mockery of the entire legal affair. The Greek is accessible and lively. The text we will use is from a forthcoming Dickinson College Commentaries edition edited by Dr. Taylor Coughlan, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Participants will have pre-publication access to Taylor’s notes as well as to interpretive essays and complete running vocabulary lists. A dictionary should not be necessary, particularly if you have mastered the DCC core Ancient Greek vocabulary. 

Meetings 

Online meetings will take place daily from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Eastern time US, with break in the middle. We will determine whether we meet in one section or two based upon enrollment. 

Reading Schedule (projected) 

Monday, July 18: Lysias 24.1-5 

Tuesday, July 19: Lysias 24.6-10 

Wednesday, July 20: Lysias 24.11-15 

Thursday, July 21: Lysias 24.16-21 

Friday, July 22: Lysias 24.22-27 

 If we read at a faster pace, we will also read selections from other speeches of Lysias. 

Registration Fee 

$200, due by check on or before July 1, 2022. Make checks payable to Dickinson College and mail them to 

Department of Classical Studies, Dickinson College 

c/o Stephanie Dyson 

Carlisle, PA 17013 

New at DCC: Homer, Odyssey 9-12

Thomas Van Nortwick and Rob Hardy’s commentary on Homer’s Odyssey Books 9-12 is now live. Like TVN’s other DCC commentary on Iliad 6 and 22 it has an extensive Introduction and fresh close reading essays on the whole. These essays are the fruit of a career’s-worth of research, reflection, and teaching and are not to be missed. Hang in there, Homerists, because another Van Nortwick-Hardy collaboration is in the works, Odyssey 5-8.

stone male head in water

Photo credit: C. Francese,, Chanticleer Garden, Wayne, PA

These books of the Odyssey are already fairly well-served in school editions available in print, and in some cases online, aimed at students of Greek. Our edition is distinctive in the extent of the hyperlinking to reference resources in the notes, its full and accurate vocabulary lists, and the close reading essays for the entirety.

The notes are primarily grammatical, rather than interpretive. They focus on peculiarities of the Homeric dialect and the elucidation of expressions that do not easily yield sense when translated literally. They endeavor to be economical to encourage fluent reading but include hyperlinks to grammars and other reference resources for those seeking further details. Comparative passages are cited sparingly, but hyperlinked so they can be examined directly. Typical Homeric features such as definite articles used as pronouns, tmesis, and the omission of temporal augments, are pointed out. Unusual case usages and constructions are noticed and equipped with links to Smyth’s Greek Grammar for Colleges (1920) at Perseus, or to Monro’s Grammar of the Homeric Dialect (1891) on DCC, and occasionally to Goodell’s School Grammar of Attic Greek (1902) on DCC. Verb forms that seem likely to cause puzzlement are parsed and the dictionary lemma given. Common words used in unusual senses are translated, often with a hyperlink to LogeionLogeion now includes both Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon (1940) and Cunliffe’s Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect (1924), as well as Autenrieth’s Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges (1891). Linking to Logeion is intended to allow interested readers to get a fuller picture of the range of meanings that ancient Greek words can have, while also giving the opinion of the editor as to which specific sense is active in a particular passage. Another set of hyperlinks leads to the Homeric Paradigms which Seth Levin and Meagan Ayer developed for the DCC edition of Iliad Books 6 and 22, based on the charts in Pharr’s Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners (1920). Links to these charts will allow interested readers to quickly look at all the common Homeric forms of paradigm nouns and verbs, as well as participles, pronouns, and irregular verbs. Because of the extensive occurrence of elision in Homer the notes often spell out a form where the elided letter may not be obvious. Rob Hardy’s Homeric Language Notes provides a summary of the points that recur in the notes and are especially pertinent for those coming to Homer from Attic Greek.

The lineage of our vocabulary lists is somewhat complex. The initial parsing of the text derives from the Perseids Project, which carried out human inspection of the entire text and the designated a specific dictionary lemma or headword for each word form. Bret Mulligan of the Haverford Bridge project equipped that parsed text with full dictionary forms and English definitions, though these full dictionary forms and definitions were often not the Homeric full dictionary forms and definitions. Extensive revision was necessary to fine tune the parsings, edit the dictionary forms to reflect the basics of Homeric usage, and to include English definitions that covered the Homeric meanings and were in contemporary English. This editing was performed over a long period by various people (see credits) using various resources, including the Homeric dictionaries available on Logeion and, more recently, the new Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (2015), which has been very helpful in modernizing the English for some definitions. As part of the editing process, the students who tested the commentary edited many of the definitions to make sure they were understandable to a modern audience. Many judgment calls had to be made about how many definitions and how much morphological information to include. The result is, I believe, the best Homeric reading vocabulary available. That is not to say that no infelicities remain, and I would be glad to receive notice of any issues you find or improvements you can suggest.

The notes and vocabulary lists were improved by testing and feedback from many students over several years, some of them from Louisiana State University, working with Willie Major, others from Dickinson, working with me, and others from Carleton College, working with Rob Hardy (see credits). The goal was to make sure that most of the kinds of questions that students have are answered economically in the notes, without adding too much in the way of ancillary information that would impede first time readers.

The Greek text conforms that of Allen’s Oxford Classical Text, with two exceptions. 

  • 9.239: M.L. West, in a paper left unfinished at his death but published later, makes a very good case for emending ἔκτοθεν of the manuscripts to ἔνδοθεν, so we have adopted that change.
  • 12.171: Allen prints βάλον, where West’s 2016 Teubner edition prints θέσαν. Both have manuscript support, and we adopted West’s preferred reading. 

Thomas Van Nortwick’s Introduction and essays, rather than attempting to survey all that has been written about these Books, point out significant parallels within and beyond the Homeric poems to show key themes and variations and bring out significant nuances that enrich our understanding of the text. He points to interesting ambiguities, helps us hear the tone, and see the many sides of Homer’s complicated hero. Each close reading essay includes suggestions for further reading.

How should one teach using this edition? Any way you like, but the inclusion of the running vocabulary lists makes it relatively easy to read this edition at sight. Many of the student test runs were carried on in this way. Students are assumed to know the DCC Core Ancient Greek vocabulary of 500 words before beginning, or else asked to learn sections of the core for homework. In class, the text is viewed side by side with the vocabulary list, either on Zoom for a virtual session or projected onto a screen in a classroom. If the instructor is sufficiently familiar with the notes, before too long students can work through the text fairly quickly without extensive dictionary time in preparation.

After a first pass at sight in class, homework can consist of re-reading the section and recording it aloud. The instructor can listen to the recording and determine if it shows comprehension, based on pausing, emphasis, and grouping of words. Other possible homework assignments might include morphology study, memorizing of short passages, or dictionary work (Find the five most important or emphatic words in the passage in your view; write the location in LSJ where the contextually appropriate meaning of each if these five words is listed; give the contextually appropriate translation of these five words; explain briefly why you believe each word is important in the context).

Extensive exposure leads to vocabulary acquisition, and the development of sight-reading skills engenders confidence. More subtly, the sight-reading approach re-orients attention in class toward syntax and endings, since these become key aids to making sense, rather than burdensome “extras” to be quizzed on after the work of translation is finished.

Though it bears a Dickinson imprimatur, this edition should really be considered an Oberlin product. Both Rob and I studied Homer for the first time with Tom Van Nortwick, Nate Greenberg, and Jim Helm at Oberlin in the mid 1980s. That rich and formative experience led us, multa per aequora, to this very pleasant collaboration. I am profoundly grateful to everyone who has been involved in this project, even if they have never met Tom Van Nortwick, whose gracious and humane teaching inspired its creation.

2022 Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop: Seneca’s Natural Questions

Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop: July 11-15, 2022

Moderators: Prof. Chris Francese and Dr. Meghan Reedy

The Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop will be held online this year. While this situation is far from ideal, we hope it will allow those who could not normally travel to Carlisle to participate.

First page of the manuscript De questionibus Naturalibus, made for the Catalan-Aragonese crown.

First page of the manuscript De questionibus Naturalibus, made for the Catalan-Aragonese crown. Image: Wikipedia (Public Domain)

This year’s text is one seldom read these days, the Naturales Quaestiones of Seneca the Younger. This prose work concerns natural phenomena (rivers, earthquakes, wind, snow, meteors, and comets). It gives fascinating insights into ancient philosophical and scientific approaches to the physical world, and also vivid evocations of the grandeur, beauty, and terror of nature. Seneca also comments on aspects of Roman culture, such as the commercial trade in snow and the decadent (in his view) use of mirrors. The selections we will read are from a forthcoming Dickinson College Commentaries edition of selections from NQ edited by Prof. Chris Trinacty of Oberlin College. Participants will have pre-publication access to Chris’s detailed notes and vocabulary lists.

We are delighted to welcome back Dr. Meghan Reedy as guest instructor. She is a former Dickinson faculty member and is currently Program Coordinator with the Maine Humanities Council. 

Meetings

  • Online meetings will take place daily 1:00 p.m. to 4:30, Eastern time US, with a break in the middle. Group translation will be carried on in two sections, one for the more confident (affectionately known as “the sharks”), one for the less confident (even more affectionately known as “the dolphins”) led on alternating days by Reedy and Francese.

Reading Schedule (projected)

Monday, July 11: NQ 3 pref. 1-4, 3.15.1-8, 3.30-1-8

Tuesday, July 12: NQ 4a.2.12-15, 4b.13.1-11, 5.13.1-15.4

Wednesday, July 13: NQ 6.3.1-6.5.3, 6.8.1-6.10.2, 7.28.1-7.30.6

Thursday, July 14: NQ 1.pref. 5-13, 1.13.1-14.6, 1.17.1-10

Friday, July 15: NQ 2.36.1-38.4, 2.59.1-13.

Registration Fee

$200, due by check on or before July 1, 2022. Make checks payable to Dickinson College and mail them to

Department of Classical Studies, Dickinson College

c/o Stephanie Dyson

Carlisle, PA 17013