13th
September
2006
Nunc dimittis
My university lost a fine teacher yesterday.
A lifetime spent teaching Latin and other Classics is one that won’t have much meaning to the youth in our schools today, but only a generation ago, the study of Latin still carried a value. The study of Latin at university was rare, but still recognized as worth something in intellectual terms.
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