Quoted
My dad is the editor of a preaching journal, The Living Pulpit, and thanks to nepotism, I mean, my dad’s knowledge of my specific talents, I’ve been doing the quotes section for him for about a year now. For each issue, I compile a list of quotes from a wide range of sources that relate to the issue’s theme. It’s an awesome gig, probably the closest I can ever get to getting paid for being oddly well-read. I’ve quoted C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen, and Horace (better known by Latin students as Little Quintus), mined lines from the Magna Carta and Hammurabi’s Code, looked up lines from the Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack and Aristophanes’ Clouds.
The annoying side is that all of those obscure MLA citations — citing works in translation, citing song lyrics, citing an episode of a television show in a series – are becoming a lot less obscure.
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just never runs outa wood! DUMM!!
1Christopher Ian Bell
wrote on 5 March 2009 at 22:22
I don’t recall hearing anyone call Horace “Little Quintus” until after my 5 years of Latin.
2Meg
wrote on 5 March 2009 at 23:13
Did you use the Oxford Latin Course, AKA the adventures of Little Quintus?
3Wabres
wrote on 6 March 2009 at 7:39
Funny, I’ve always thought the other name for Horus was “That Bird-Headed Guy”
4Meg
wrote on 6 March 2009 at 22:31
I believe that kind of Horus is spelled Reed, Eye, Bird, Arrow, Folded cloth.
5Christopher Ian Bell
wrote on 7 March 2009 at 11:53
No. We used the last edition of Merrill’s “Latin: Our Living Heritage” books, which were out of print by the time I was taking it in the early 90s.
6Meg
wrote on 7 March 2009 at 16:35
I don’t think I ever saw those ones. In the classics dept. you could always tell who used Oxford Latin Course because someone would quote Horace and the OLC kids would all swear about little Quintus.