Word: latine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is any hope at all, of finding the final text of such Latin authorities as Livy and Varro, such hopes rest in Herculaneum alone. Pompeii will never give us any original documents, for the lava which buried it was porous and permitted the infiltration of water. This destroyed any papyri which may have existed. The volcanic substance which flowed over Herculaneum became so solidified that it may have preserved some few libraries...
...What we dream of being able to do is to lay hands on the library of some average Roman of medium culture. That would give us a wonderful insight into Latin literature of that time. It is not impossible that we might even find the text of some Latin popular comedies, which are known to have existed but which have never been found...
...have consulted a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church and he advises me that Latin is not used in public services of the Anglican Church although the Prayer Book gives the Latin heading for the Psalms and certain hymns...
...interested in the question as my father, Edward Everett Hale, who was an Unitarian minister, once told me that the only Churches which could use Latin in public were the Roman and the Unitarian. The question came up when my father's organist asked if he had any objection to the singing of "Integer vitae" in Church. ARTHUR HALE...
Despatches had the Archbishop of Canterbury saying a paternoster. In London one High Church congregation holds services entirely in Latin; in Chicago one holds them partly in Greek...