Latin coming along

[Hugh Lawson]

Slowly working my way through Cicero's essay "De Amicitia" or "On
Friendship". I'm also falling back to regroup after a failed attack on
Tacitus's "Agricola", a work in praise of his father-in-law. Tacitus is
extremely difficult for me, um in Latin I mean.

I like to keep my "cultured despisers"* up-to-date on my reading.

* arch reference to Schleiermacher's famous "On Religion: Speeches to
Its Cultured Despisers".

[Wiregrass Willie]

On Thu, 02 May 2013 20:24:14 -0400, Hugh Lawson <hu.l...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>Slowly working my way through Cicero's essay "De Amicitia" or "On
>Friendship". I'm also falling back to regroup after a failed attack on
>Tacitus's "Agricola", a work in praise of his father-in-law. Tacitus is
>extremely difficult for me, um in Latin I mean.

I don't know Latin from Swahili. But I am a great admirer of
Tacitus. His interpretation of the Jewish Exodus is great.
Actually -- one might better call his version the "Expulsion".

Another thing I find interesting is where he suggests the Jews may
well have been descended from an Ethiopian tribe. Don't you know
that thought would give some Baptists nightmares ?

http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/histories.5.v.html

"...Many, again, say that they were a race of Ethiopian origin.."