I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me. But I was still interested in what he had to say.
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My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.
Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.
My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.
We Latins are known for jabbering on.
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.
Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.
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