Septima Renuntiatio

Latin scholars have a second special visitor. Their first, Lisa Simeone of NPR, spoke to them a short time ago about why she decided to start studying Latin over fifty, and her career in radio. The week before mid-terms, as a break from review, Mrs. Lawrence, as a companion piece to the memorization and discussion they are doing in English, spoke to the students about Shakespeare and Latin. Did you know that even though he probably only went to school through what was sixth grade he had several years of Greek and Latin?! After a short discussion, students went on to translate the sonnet which begins: An similem aestivae pingam te, cara, diei? Why not try your hand at it? Visit http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/pedagogy/latinitas/dv/dv.html to to find all of Shakespeare's sonnets in Latin.