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In A New Latin Prose Composition, Charles E. Bennett, pages IX and VIII are out of order.

Free fonts from some ancient languages/uses.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fonts/

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/po ... oetry.html

Horace
http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris ... orace.html

Catullus
http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris ... ullus.html

This professor has an interesting take on how they should be translated Don't read if you are offended by swearing and vulgarities.

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/latin/latintrans.html

This is more like one of the dictionaries, but it does it on the whole lump of words in the sentence. Could be also useful for checking one's own latin compsition and spelling. How accurate is it? I'm a total novice in latin and in no situation to judge. ;) Found this while looking for another latin dictionary site to ...

Cur omnes in hoc foro non saepe nunc loquuntur? Quam ob rem forum hoc fit tardius? Antea amabam omnia verba e Populo textkitis venientia; nunc tamen est nihil amandum.

Fiat forum simile foro aliorum dierum acriusque. Si non ita faciatis, Deus me hortetur ut omnibus hic mulieribus quibusque hominibusque unam columbam sugentem mittam. Cognosco vos non amavisse fabulam illam in Agora dictam. Saevior sum.

Denique, si nec latinam scias nec latine loquaris faciendus es. Anglice ...

this site might already be linked in one of the other linked pages, but it's worth putting up again (as mingshey suggested)... greek manuscripts sorted by date and literary category :)

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus ... ction.html

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been
reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
communications,
rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a
five-year phased plan for
what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for
short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft ...

i have a question.
how can the two last lines rhime?
"To thee we sing, our holiest, fairest god,
The One who in that awful chaos trod
And woke the Elements by Law of Love
To teeming worlds in harmony to move."
(a prize to who ever recognises it. hint: its a translation.)
was the pronunciation different in the victorian times?
here is more:
"Come nestle closely with those lips of love
And balmy breath, ...

Well, what is it? :)

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