Quintus et Caecilius ambulant in horto (was that from that one?)
I'm sure there was a Sextus too. Was he a slave? Or am I making that up?

It's so confusing as we started on Ecce Romani, and then moved onto a different one.
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:21, 4 replies)

So did we.
Two years of Ecce Romani, then the Oxford Latin Course.

Sextus was in there, I think, as was a fair amount of walking into (and in: accusative and ablative respectively) the garden. The slave in ER was a British man called Davus. Davus iratus est. I think he might have tried to escape, too, and was branded FUG as a result. Quite a brutal textbook, that.

Quintus was a character in the OLC; without having had to translate a passage about him going to the forum to buy a copy of The Republic, I'd possibly never have become interested in philosophy myself, would not have read it when I was 16, would not have studied it at university, and would not be doing the job I now do.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:25, closed)

Quite a chain of events!
I have the republic on my bookshelf, but only to look clever. Is it one I should read then? I only bought it because I'd read an extract where he rambled on about music that amused me, but I still haven't got round to tackling the whole thing.

About every three months I pick one of these shelf-decorating books and actually read it. Last one (well okay a pair) was the Wealth of Nations and Moral Sentiments. And my word it's more interesting reading both of them. If a little confusing.
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:29, closed)

The Republic has its moments,
but in my opinion Plato is more important for what he inspired than for anything that he did in his own right. A lot of important stuff can be traced back to him, and he's the earliest philosopher from whom we have anything like a significant body of work - but Aristotle is a much more coherent thinker on the whole.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:36, closed)

Generally my philosophy reading is pretty poor
and overly influenced by whether Bertrand Russell had anything nice to say about them in the History of Western Philosophy...
( prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:45, closed)

I disagree...
... well, actually, i don't. What you said there was spot on. But I'd still recommend Plato over Aristotle: they've both been studied, picked apart, put back together, and essentially superseded over the last ~2400 years; but Plato has the advantage of actually being a relatively enjoyable read for the amateur philosopher. Aristotle is about as fun as reading someone's lecture notes.
(Xpic needs a kick up the arse., Tue 5 Jul 2011, 9:38, closed)

Caecilius brings back memories...

( snee held his breath since, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 11:21, closed)

Wasn't Quintus the cook?

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 18:39, closed)

If there was a Quintus,
I'd assume he'd've been Sextus' older brother...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 21:12, closed)

I only did Ecce Romani.
The boys were Marcus and Sextus, I think. Sextus was a puer molestus who irritated the English slave and fell in the piscina.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 2 Jul 2011, 8:09, closed)

This made me giggle like a loon, for some reason!
(The way Lampito described it, not EC itself).
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Sun 3 Jul 2011, 18:45, closed)

I have a wild and passionate love for it.
As a leaving present my Latin teacher of all 7 years at school gave our class copies, as we had been the last year to do it.

There's a video on facebook. There's lots of screaming.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 4 Jul 2011, 8:01, closed)