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...elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam uxorem suo animo volup facit; est denique eiusdem fili mater quae victrix virum accubantem cum corona amplexum amicam conspicit et - o imperium uxoriosum - e lustris rapit. Sed de argumento satis superque dictumst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Asinaria Harvardiana | 3/30/1954 | See Source »

Nunc ad illos transco qui principales partes agunt. Ex quibus primi cum primis nominandi hi Roscii: ille servus sollers, virgarum lascivia (quem nos T. Hilarem appellamus), et cius alter, Shillius Homo (qui solus intellegit uti miser sit homo qui amat), et Norris noster nobilis (qui verba blanda pro auro et dicta docta prodatis pracbet). Nec quidem vos estis mihi practereundac, o amatrices dicaculae et sagaces, tu, M. Paludis Filum et tu, o matre forti filia fortior, M. Tabum; nec tu, dura Dersofia; nec vos, o nymphae graciles, meae Mariac ambae; nec denique tu, o vox aurea cuius nomen barbarum Latin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Asinaria Harvardiana | 3/30/1954 | See Source »

...friend observed, "a little capillary vein of-shall we call it satire? It breaks out when least expected." He was either very dull or very sharp with the ladies, they were never sure which. When gay Hannah Quincy coyly told him she knew some Latin and offered "Puella amat puer," John quickly countered: "Puella what? . . . The object of the verb takes the accusative, in Latin. If you are trying to say the boy loves the girl .. . Or do you mean, possibly, the girl loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Lackluster | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...Amas, Amat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Quisquis amat porcis, porcis amabitur illis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLADSTONE'S SCHOOL DAYS. | 4/16/1883 | See Source »

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