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Students who would like to take the "Medusa" exam need to bring in $3 to do so; limited amount of scholarship funds available, please let me know!

NATIONAL MYTHOLOGY EXAM & MEDUSA MYTH EXAM - SYLLABI  "WORKSHEETS & HANDOUTS"

NME - will be given 2/22 - 3/5; specific date tba

Medusa will be given week of 3/22-26; specific date tba

Interesting Latin item:  Poet Joseph S. Salemi penned this, in memory of his fellow soldier Benson A. Koenig (1912-1997), whose shared his love of Latin during WWII

Battery A, 10th AART Battalion, U.S. Army
North Africa and Italy, 1942–1944


Those last three days, reciting from memory
Cicero and Vergil, you could quote
Long passages of Latin poetry.
It left us stunned. The only antidote
To poison in your flesh was blessèd words.
No other good thing comforted you when
Pulsating life, just like a flock of birds,
Gathered its wings to fly. The deaths of men
Can be as silent as the moon’s eclipse,
Spectrally speechless as fields after battle,
Loud as the riven sky’s apocalypse
With thundering noise—or mindless as a rattle.
Benson, your answer to encroaching dark
Was lustrous language, flaring like a spark.
 

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In the words of your teacher, "Qui non est hodie cras in sterce erit."

You can translate that as "He (or SHE) who is not prepared today will be in trouble tomorrow!"

last updated:   January 29, 2010  11:50 AM




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