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Two of the students in my Latin II class this past semester, Nate and Meredith, made a video about the life of Julius Caesar, as part of a class project. They decided to use ‘anthropomorphized learning tools,’ or sock puppets in the vernacular, as the medium through which to explain the life of this great man. Keep in mind these are students in a college-level Latin class. College.

Tip: Make sure to watch through the credits for the extra priceless footage at the very end.

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“…and don’t do it again!”

Just when you thought you’d seen everything, there’s the Wikipedia in Latin. That’s right, for all those esoteric questions about Roman civilization and grammar, you can now refer to an encyclopedia written entirely in Latin. How can you beat a definition of that hard-to-find Latin verb in the passive periphrastic written itself in the very language that’s confusing you? You can’t.

Not only is the Vicipaedia a great source for information about Latin grammar and vocabulary, it’s also got authentic Roman recipes (of the day), and boasts 11,787 pages of Latiny fun at the current juncture. One can only hope that number will increase as the number of bored, tenured classics faculty finding their way onto the Internet also swells. After all, what’s the point of being able to decline a 3rd declension i-stem noun if you can’t use that talent to combine a delicious concoction of herbs into the Roman delicacy known as “Moretum.’

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