Charles+

What do I remember -- very little, mostly trivia . . . and our first lesson: 
"Britannia est insula. Italia non est insula. Italia paene insula est. 
Italia est paeninsula." Or close thereunto. Britain is an island. Italy is 
not an island. Italy is almost an island.
Italy is a peninsula.)

Our Latin teacher also imbibed during class (did it require this to endure 
us students?), however, she put her liquor in a spray bottle that she kept 
on her desk and atomized her "sore" throat frequently.

The only reason I remembered the plural of opus was that when taught that it 
was opera, I noted that musical works were catalogued as opus I, opus II, 
etc., and that an opera was a lengthy composition of many small parts or 
works, hence opera.  [However, I must confess looking up opus in my Latin 
dictionary, it gives the plural as operis.  It appears that mea culpa, mea 
culpa, mea maxima culpa!]

John+

PS Can you still give "All Gaul is divided into three parts." in Latin?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charles scott" <crscottblu@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [FaithandLife] OF MAGNUM OPII ACQUINAS BARTH AND HALL


>
> --- "John S. Longcamp" <jlongcamp@...> wrote:
>
>> Charles+
>>
>> The plural of opus is opera. A bit of trivia.
>>
> __________________________-
> Hah!  Thank you John+.
>
> Fifty-five years have passed since a very urbane
> refugee from the Big City attempted to teach Latin II
> to rural and small town Ohio boys.  After a session in
> which he introduced us to the mysteries of conjugating
> irregular verbs, our Latin teacher would wipe his
> sweaty brow with a huge hand and amble off to the
> boiler room to take communion.  (He had a bottle
> stashed behind the pipes).
>
> Why would an obviously well educated man with the
> physique of a professional football player be teaching
> in a small, class B school?   We had few younger men
> teaching public school in those days. I can only
> recall four.  Those men were there because they loved
> teaching, and had other ways of supplementing their
> salaries.
>
> Thanks be to God for their encouragement and example.
>
> What do I remember?  Oh yes, "All Gaul is divided into
> 3 parts. . . ."
>
> Charles+
>
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