January 2012
4 posts
Let it not be objected that the words of the Office are not our own, that the Psalms were not composed for us, that they suppose thoughts, circumstances, and dispositions that are not ours. For the Office has been compiled for us. The Psalms (we repeat it again) have Jesus, the Incarnate God, not David, as their first and principal object. What they express is not the mind of anyone man in...
Historical Maps of the World →
Distributism →
Christo apertæ sunt portæ cæli propter carnalem eius assumptionem.
By Christ the gates of heaven have been opened because of his flesh taken up.
-St. Irenaeus (via Liturgia Horarum before Ps. 24)
December 2011
9 posts
If it is art, it is not for all and if it is for all, it is not art.
-Arnold Schoenberg in Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg, p. 124
The Book of Books →
Men Shop in Bulk →
German word for the day:
Entscheidungsfähigkeit, ”decision-making ability”
Annuntiámus mane misericórdiam tuam, Dómine, et veritátem tuam per noctem.
We proclaim your mercy in the morning, Lord, and your truth through the night.
German word for the day:
Wirklichkeitsverständnis, ”comprehension of reality”
Non eum totus mundus erigit, quem veritas sibi subjecit; nec omnium lau- dantium ore movebitur, qui totam spem suam in Deo firmavit. The whole world does not bear up the one whom truth has subjected to itself; nor will he be moved by the voice of all approvers, who has completely strengthened his own hope in God.
- [Thomas à Kempis], De Imitatione Christi III.14.4
non quid sed qua mente operemur.
[Ask] not what we shall do but with what heart.
-Aegidius of Viterbo
Latin Handouts →
November 2011
1 post
Philology … is an historical science. Language is here treated simply as a means. The classical scholar uses Greek or Latin… as a key to the understanding of the literary monuments which bygone ages have bequeathed to us, as a spell to raise from the tomb of time the thoughts of great men in different ages and different countries, and as a means ultimately to trace the social, moral,...
October 2011
10 posts
Qui Scribit, Bis Legit →
Guide Sheets for Calligraphy and Penmanship →
Medieval Unicode Font Initiative →
Logical Fallacies →
Patrologia Graeca (ed. Migne) →
Dialectic
Why should I break my head about the outside world? Let the outside world break its own head. Well put! He is right. As the Good Book says, “If you spit in the air, it lands in your face. “ Nonsense. You can’t close your eyes to what’s happening in the world. He is right. He’s right and he’s right? They can’t both be right. You know, you are also right.
I lately lost a preposition; It hid, I thought, beneath my chair And angrily I cried, “Perdition! Up from out of under there.”
Correctness is my vade mecum, And straggling phrases I abhor, And yet I wondered, “What should he come Up from out of under for?”
— Morris Bishop
Christus ut Deus est impassibilis, immortalis, aeternus, ut homo est passibilis, mortalis, temporalis.
Logeion →
Greek/Latin Multi-Lexica with Frequencies/Collocations etc.
Umbra in lege Imago in evangelio Veritas in caelo. Shadow in law Image in gospel Truth in heaven. -St. Ambrose on Ps. 38
September 2011
19 posts
Vatican Information Services →
Euhemerized
Euhemerize v. To subject to euhemeristic interpretation; Euhemerism, n. The method of mythological interpretation which regards myths as traditional accounts of real incidents in human history. (source: OED)
Omne ens, in quantum ens, est bonum.
Vice, easier gained than lost. Virtue, easier lost than gained.
οἱ ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι καὶ οἱ πρῶτοι ἔσχατοι.
The Sorrowful Mother Helping Mothers →
haplography
the inadvertent omission of a repeated letter or letters in writing (e.g., writing philogy for philology).
New Oxford American Dictionary
Glossa: A Latin dictionary →
“The boundaries between ‘artistic’ and ‘real’ letters...”
– von Albrecht, Michael. History of Latin Literature. Leiden:Brill, 1997. p. 1
Spurious Diphthong →
Dittography
a mistaken repetition of a letter, word, or phrase by a copyist.
New Oxford American Dictionary
Young, Evangelical, and Catholic →
Ronald Knox: A Spiritual Aeneid →
Expectabat enim fundamenta habentem civitatem, cuius artifex et conditor Deus. (Heb 11:10)
Deutsche Konjugationstabellen →
The German-English Theological Dictionary →
ARTFL Project: Multilingual Bibles →
Wortschatz Deutsch-Englisch Lexicon →
dterm for Mac →
Terminal Anywhere
Medieval Latin Dictionary →
August 2011
7 posts
Good Books List →
Catholic Reading Lists, Combined →
iriver Story HD →
philolog.us →
The Mission to Get Osama →
Homer's Trojan Theater (Jenny Strauss Clay) →
FSI Language Courses →