by Daniel Pettersson | Oct 5, 2018 | Practice your Latin
In this third video in our series about Latin expressions and texts explained in Latin, I talk about a word whose meaning, at first glance, seems so apparent that there would be no need to make a video about it. But today, we will talk about quite another meaning...
by Daniel Pettersson | Oct 5, 2018 | Practice your Latin
The best way to learn Latin is to read and listen to as much as possible in Latin—as long as it is in line with the type of literature you want to read. In this video, entirely in Latin, you’ll learn about the expression in morbum incidere in a spoken Latin...
by Daniel Pettersson | Oct 5, 2018 | Practice your Latin
In this first part of the new video series “Loci et Locutiones”, I talk about a Latin expression I came across two years ago in Plautus: oculi emissicii. Even though it’s quite a rare expression, it’s nevertheless worth knowing it. Suggested watching...
by Daniel Pettersson | Oct 5, 2016 | Practice your Latin
Some of the most lively and fun Latin literature there is to read is the playwright Plautus’ comedies. ALthough they are great fun, they contain a myriad of rare or obscure words and expressions. Today, we are looking at one of these: sub manus...
by Daniel Pettersson | Oct 5, 2016 | Practice your Latin
A recurring difficulty for many of my students has been to find expressions attested in Roman literature that express the English “don’t worry”. In this article (and video), I dive deep and provide two solutions, one from Terence, and the other from...