Sybilla Oritur

I have a complicated relationship to the word heaps which during my Australiad was the cause of much mirth. Stuff is heaps of fun and i love stuff heaps!
I have discovered a new application of the word through my Latin reading group with Prof. Celenza. Apparently, an approved rhetorical technique is the “heaps” argument: A [...]

Just hit send on my abstract submission for the Northeast Modern Languages Association Conference held this upcoming April in Montreal.
Back to my Latin translations…
Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, in recounting various aspects of Nero’s life, presents clues to the socio-political circumstances and concerns of its contemporary audience. This paper analyzes the depiction of those [...]

This morning in the car I got a chance to use my Latin skills.
- Is there such a thing as a “Southern Borealis”?
- Actually, if there is it would be the “Aurora Australis” as Borealis is the Latin adjective for northern and Australis is the word for southern.
- Whatever, is there one?
Well, yes, there is and, although sometimes [...]

Yesterday on the drive in i thought there was something interesting news on the radio, but i never got around to blogging about it - so here i am rehashing old news…
But first - I PASSED THE LATIN EXAM! I also pulled my mother’s back jumping on her for joy, knocked over a garbage can [...]

I was surprised on Tuesday night to discover that the washroom facilities aboard the Montreal to Toronto 6:20 train smelled of iced tea - the peach kind.
Sitting in Dessert Trends at the corner of Harbord and Brunswick, i was pouring over my Golden Book of 555 Latin Verbs (totally worth the nine dollars even if [...]