Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
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Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
I recently read A.A's outstanding translation of "Treasure Island" ("Insula Thesauraria") and I personally consider him a genius. I also found out that he developed a technique to help the student achieve complete fluency in Latin. Whereas I am happy with "Lvo", I'd like to find out more about this man and his ideas. Can anyone help me? Do you own a copy of the book ("Palaestra") or can you at least tell me more about the method itself? Thank you.
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Re: Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadius_Avellanus
Modus discendi eius viri ignoro. // I don't know about his method.
Modus discendi eius viri ignoro. // I don't know about his method.
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.
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Re: Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
Nonne tibi vis 'modum'? Quod scio, modus substantivum secundae est declinationis.adrianus wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadius_Avellanus
Modus discendi eius viri ignoro. // I don't know about his method.
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Re: Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
Palaestra
http://ia600406.us.archive.org/26/items ... 0mogygoog/
Interesting // curâ est.
Also // Etiam
Mysterium Arcae Boulé (The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet)
http://www.archive.org/details/mysteriu ... 00mogygoog
Also // Etiam
Insula Thesauraria
http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciculus ... raria.djvu
Also // Etiam
Pericla Navarchi Magonis
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... gonis.djvu
Also // Etiam
Fabulae Divales
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fabulae_Divales.djvu
http://ia600406.us.archive.org/26/items ... 0mogygoog/
Interesting // curâ est.
Also // Etiam
Mysterium Arcae Boulé (The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet)
http://www.archive.org/details/mysteriu ... 00mogygoog
Also // Etiam
Insula Thesauraria
http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciculus ... raria.djvu
Also // Etiam
Pericla Navarchi Magonis
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... gonis.djvu
Also // Etiam
Fabulae Divales
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fabulae_Divales.djvu
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.
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Re: Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
I wrote the Latin version of this article (of which the English is someone's translation), so if you have any feedback, let me know. http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadius_Avellanusadrianus wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadius_Avellanus
Modus discendi eius viri ignoro. // I don't know about his method.
Horae quidem cedunt et dies et menses et anni, nec praeteritum tempus umquam revertitur nec quid sequatur sciri potest. Quod cuique temporis ad vivendum datur, eo debet esse contentus. --Cicero, De Senectute
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Re: Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
Great, thesaure. I didn't know of him before. He's really interesting.
Bene factum est, thesaure. Ignotus mihi anteà hoc homo. Valdè attractivus.
Bene factum est, thesaure. Ignotus mihi anteà hoc homo. Valdè attractivus.
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.
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Re: Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
Hoc modò animadverti. Rectè dicis, Matthaee.MatthaeusLatinus wrote:Nonne tibi vis 'modum'? Quod scio, modus substantivum secundae est declinationis.adrianus wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadius_Avellanus
Modus discendi eius viri ignoro. // I don't know about his method.
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.
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Re: Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
What a very liney method… :O.
Här kan jag i alla fall skriva på svenska, eller hur?
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Re: Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
Having looked quickly at it, I think the Palaestra method is very intuitive. He starts with a point and a line indeed, and coincidentally that how I begin my (unfinished) Mundus program, though less well,—well, right after showing what you might take out of a schoolbag. But this is to tie Latin in nicely with other things being taught in a school curriculum.
Opus innui et rationem Palaestrae libri prorsùs intuitivam habeo. Puncto lineâque incipit liber,—quo et meum programma ineditum Mundus nomine casu modo minùs perito incipit, illis rebus quas capsa discipuli continet monstratis. Quae ratio scito modo aliis disciplinis in ludis integrat.
Opus innui et rationem Palaestrae libri prorsùs intuitivam habeo. Puncto lineâque incipit liber,—quo et meum programma ineditum Mundus nomine casu modo minùs perito incipit, illis rebus quas capsa discipuli continet monstratis. Quae ratio scito modo aliis disciplinis in ludis integrat.
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.
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Re: Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
For a PDF of Fabulae Divales, if you have a US IP address, go to:adrianus wrote: Also // Etiam
Fabulae Divales
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fabulae_Divales.djvu
http://books.google.com/books?id=JfI_TJo2Z_YC
or, failing that:
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-downlo ... es/6044763
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Re: Arcadius Avellanus' "Tusculum/Palaestra"?
Salvete!
I stumbled upon the work of Arcadius Avellanus (real name Árkád Mogyoróssy, see the la.Wikipedia article). I thought it might be useful to put together all information about freely available versions (and those not yet online):
Valete,
Carolus Raeticus
I stumbled upon the work of Arcadius Avellanus (real name Árkád Mogyoróssy, see the la.Wikipedia article). I thought it might be useful to put together all information about freely available versions (and those not yet online):
- His course:
- Nova Sermonis Latini Palaestra: the first part of the course (PDF, 2.3 MB, 81 pages)
- Arena Palaestrarum: the second part of the course (PDF, 2.9 MB, 177 pages)
- Medulla, a classical reader (unfortunately unavailable)
- His translations:
- Insula Thesauraria: Robert L. Stevenson's Treasure Island (DJVU, 3.1 MB, file size unknown, 456 pages)
- Pericla navarchi Magonis; sive, Expeditio phoenicia annis ante Christvm mille: Léon Cahun's Les Aventures du Capitaine Magon (PDF, 13.5 MB, 482 pages))
- Mysterium arcæ Boulé: Burton Egbert Stevenson's The mystery of the Boule cabinet; a Detective story (PDF, 6.2 MB, 341 pages)
- Fabulæ divales: fairy stories, e.g. Lucerna Aladdini, Ciniscula, Pulchritudo atque bestia (PDF, 4.1 MB).
- Mons Spes et novellae aliae: stories by E. Prentice, J. Ruskin, E.B. Lytton, Guy de Maupassant and Robert L. Stevenson (no PDF, only for reading online, 268 pages).
- Other works:
- Colloquiorum Scholasticorum Liber Secundus: an edition of the dialogues written by Corderius as adapted by Arcadius Avellanus (HTML).
- Fabulae Tusculanae: unfortunately unavailable. Its sub-title: ad suppeditandam praeceptoribus studiosisque materiam latinum sermonem vivae vocis adminiculo docendi et discendi (1913, 16 pages according to the Library of Congress' Catalogue of copyright entries).
Valete,
Carolus Raeticus
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