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[Hugh Lawson]

Book XI of the Aeneid finished. I've worked through books IX, X, and XI
in three months. Since each book contains about 800-900 lines of verse,
that means I'm going forward at about 30 lines each day.

In October, I will have been working on Latin for three years. Caesar's
Gallic wars, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, the Aeneid, and some
orations of Cicero. I've also read a little of Augustine's Confessions.

After the Aeneid, I tackle Lucretius's De Rerum Natura (On the nature of
things), a long didactic poem laying out the Epicurean philosophy of
nature.

[MITO MINISTER]

On May 11, 11:53 pm, Bad Jim <jc...@csa.gov> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2012 08:22:02 -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote
> (in article <871umqoql1....@gmail.com>):

> Congratulations!  There was a time, not so long ago, when an educated man was
> expected to have reached this point before finishing high school.  Now, you
> are lucky if a high school graduate can read and write English.  Progress.
>
> --
> Bad Jim

I do not consider myself to be educated, but I did this shit in grades
7 and 8. Not the Aeneid, but "Commentarii de Bello Civili". Me and my
classmates HATED Latin. (Yeah, yeah, "My classmates and I"). We
preferred The Brady Bunch and Bat-Man.

Death to The White South!