Entries from December 2008

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

A look at snow (Horace, Odes 1.9)

Thanks to Wells Hansen of Milton Academy for this guest spot![audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/a-look-at-snow.mp3] Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte, nec iam sustineant onus   silvae laborantes, geluque     flumina constiterint acuto? dissolue frigus ligna super foco large reponens atque benignius   deprome quadrimum Sabina,     o Thaliarche, merum diota. permitte divis cetera, qui simul stravere ventos aequore fervido   deproeliantis, nec […]

Monday, December 8th, 2008

A view from the Palatine (Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 39-52)

[audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/the-view-from-the-palatine.mp3] Non alium certe decuit rectoribus orbis esse larem, nulloque magis se colle potestas aestimat et summi sentit fastigia iuris; attollens apicem subiectis regia rostris tot circum delubra videt tantisque deorum cingitur excubiis! iuvat infra tecta Tonantis cernere Tarpeia pendentes rupe Gigantas caelatasque fores mediisque volantia signa nubibus et densum stipantibus aethera templis aeraque vestitis […]