A Handbook for Latin Clubs

The Latin Club in secondary schools is the result of the incessant demand that our Latin instruction must be vivified. Many teachers feel the need of supplementary work in their Latin teaching, but they have been handicapped because of a lack of material as well as a lack of time. This is especially true of the teacher in the small town. To help meet this demand is the purpose of this book.

The programs have purposely been made too long for one session in order that the teacher may have some choice in selection, and that, in case all references are not accessible, enough may be secured to insure a reasonably varied program.

I would suggest that the Club purchase as many Perry pictures and Berlin photographs of classical subjects as possible and that its members coöperate with the city library board for the purchase of such books as are essential, in case there is no school fund available for this purpose. Some high school alumnus in whose heart there is appreciation of Rome's gift to us might present a book to his Alma Mater. Another might offer some suitable magazines, properly bound.

Of a Latin Club, as of most school work, it may be said that usus est optimus magister, and especially applicable in this connection are the words of Horace: Dimidium facti, qui coepit.

Programs

Selections that may be used for the Programs

PROGRAMS

THE VALUE OF LATIN

POMPEII

ANCIENT ROME

THE ROMAN FORUM

THE ROMAN HOUSE

ROMAN SLAVES

ROMAN CHILDREN

EDUCATION AMONG THE ROMANS

SOME COMMON PROFESSIONS AND TRADES AMONG THE ROMANS

ROMAN DOCTORS

THE ROMAN SOLDIER

CAESAR

CICERO

VERGIL

HORACE

ROMAN LITERATURE

SOME FAMOUS WOMEN OF ANCIENT ROME

ROMAN HOLIDAYS

FUNERAL CUSTOMS AND BURIAL PLACES

ROMAN GAMES

SOME FAMOUS BUILDINGS OF ANCIENT ROME

SOME FAMOUS ROMAN LETTERS

SOME ANCIENT ROMANS OF FAME

A ROMAN BANQUET

ROMAN ROADS

SOME ROMAN GODS

SOME FAMOUS TEMPLES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN ROME

SOME RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS

SOME FAMOUS PICTURES AND SCULPTURE

ROMAN BOOKS AND LIBRARIES

ANCIENT MYTHS AND LEGENDS

THE ANCIENT MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE

WHAT ENGLISH OWES TO GREEK

MODERN ROME

ITALY OF TO-DAY

O TEMPORA! O MORES!

SELECTIONS THAT MAY BE USED FOR THE PROGRAMS

A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS²

ON AN OLD LATIN TEXT BOOK

I remember the very day when the schoolmaster gave it to me.... And I remember that the rather stern and aquiline face of our teacher relaxed into mildness for a moment. Both we and our books must have looked very fresh and new to him, though we may all be a little battered now; at least, my New Latin Tutor is. It is a very precious book, and it should be robed in choice Turkey morocco, were not the very covers too much a part of the association to be changed. For between them I gathered the seed-grain of many harvests of delight; through this low archway I first looked upon the immeasurable beauty of words....

What liquid words were these: aqua, aura, unda! All English poetry that I had yet learned by heart—it is only children who learn by heart, grown people "commit to memory"—had not so awakened the vision of what literature might mean. Thenceforth all life became ideal....

Then human passion, tender, faithful, immortal, came also by and beckoned. "But let me die," she said. "Thus, thus it delights me to go under the shades." Or that infinite tenderness, the stronger even for its opening moderation of utterance, the last sigh of Aeneas after Dido,—

Or, with more definite and sublime grandeur, the vast forms of Roman statesmanship appear: "Today, Romans, you behold the commonwealth, the lives of you all, estates, fortunes, wives and children, and the seat of this most renowned empire, this most fortunate and beautiful city, preserved and restored to you by the distinguished love of the immortal gods, and by my toils, counsels, and dangers."

What great thoughts were found within these pages, what a Roman vigor was in these maxims! "It is Roman to do and suffer 67 bravely." "It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country." "He that gives himself up to pleasure, is not worthy the name of a man."...

There was nothing harsh or stern in this book, no cynicism, no indifference; but it was a flower-garden of lovely out-door allusions, a gallery of great deeds; and as I have said before, it formed the child's first real glimpse into the kingdom of words.

I was once asked by a doctor of divinity, who was also the overseer of a college, whether I ever knew any one to look back with pleasure upon his early studies in Latin and Greek. It was like being asked if one looked back with pleasure on summer mornings and evenings. No doubt those languages, like all others, have fared hard at the hands of pedants; and there are active boys who hate all study, and others who love the natural sciences alone. Indeed, it is a hasty assumption, that the majority of boys hate Latin and Greek. I find that most college graduates, at least, retain some relish for the memory of such studies, even if they have utterly lost the power to masticate or digest them. "Though they speak no Greek, they love the sound on't." Many a respectable citizen still loves to look at his Horace or Virgil on the shelf where it has stood undisturbed for a dozen years; he looks, and thinks that he too lived in Arcadia.... The books link him with culture, and universities, and the traditions of great scholars.

On some stormy Sunday, he thinks, he will take them down. At length he tries it; he handles the volume awkwardly, as he does his infant; but it is something to be able to say that neither book nor baby has been actually dropped. He likes to know that there is a tie between him and each of these possessions, though he is willing, it must be owned, to leave the daily care of each in more familiar hands....

I must honestly say that much of the modern outcry against classical studies seems to me to be (as in the case of good Dr. Jacob Bigelow) a frank hostility to literature itself, as the supposed rival of science; or a willingness (as in Professor Atkinson's 68 case) to tolerate modern literature, while discouraging the study of the ancient. Both seem to commit the error of drawing their examples of abuse from England, and applying their warnings to America.... Because the House of Commons was once said to care more for a false quantity in Latin verse than in English morals, shall we visit equal indignation on a House of Representatives that had to send for a classical dictionary to find out who Thersites was?...

Granted, that foreign systems of education may err by insisting on the arts of literary structure too much; think what we should lose by dwelling on them too little! The magic of mere words; the mission of language; the worth of form as well as of matter; the power to make a common thought immortal in a phrase, so that your fancy can no more detach the one from the other than it can separate the soul and body of a child; it was the veiled half revelation of these things that made that old text-book forever fragrant to me. There are in it the still visible traces of wild flowers which I used to press between the pages, on the way to school; but it was the pressed flowers of Latin poetry that were embalmed there first. These are blossoms that do not fade.

SAINT AUGUSTINE'S LOVE OF LATIN

"Saint Augustine, like Sir Walter Scott at the University of Edinburgh, was 'The Greek Dunce.' Both of these great men, to their sorrow and loss, absolutely and totally declined to learn Greek. 'But what the reason was why I hated the Greek language, while I was taught it, being a child, I do not yet understand.' The Saint was far from being alone in that distaste, and he who writes loathed Greek like poison—till he came to Homer. Latin the Saint loved, except 'when reading, writing, and casting of accounts was taught in Latin, which I held not far less painful 69 or penal than the very Greek. I wept for Dido's death, who made herself away with the sword,' he declares, 'and even so, the saying that two and two makes four was an ungrateful song in mine ears, whereas the wooden horse full of armed men, the burning of Troy, and the very Ghost of Creusa, was a most delightful spectacle of vanity.'"

THE WATCH OF THE OLD GODS

OLD AND NEW ROME

THE FALL OF ROME

A CHRISTMAS HYMN

ROMAN GIRL'S SONG

CAPRI

PALLADIUM

AFTER CONSTRUING

A ROMAN MIRROR

THE DOOM OF THE SLOTHFUL

HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE

ENCELADUS

NIL ADMIRARI

PERDIDI DIEM

The Emperor Titus, at the close of a day in which he had neither gained any knowledge nor conferred benefit, was accustomed to exclaim, "Perdidi diem," "I have lost a day."

JUPITER AND HIS CHILDREN

A CLASSIC FABLE

THE PRAYER OF SOCRATES

BY THE ROMAN ROAD

"Poetry and paganism do not mix very well nowadays. The Hellenism of our versifiers is, as a rule, not Greek; it is derived partly from Swinburne and partly from Pater. But now and then there comes a poet who has real appreciation of the beauty of classic days; who can express sincerely and vividly the haunting charm of Greek or Roman culture. Such an one is the anonymous writer of these lines, which appeared in the London Punch."

A NYMPH'S LAMENT

HELEN OF TROY

AN ETRUSCAN RING

ORPHEUS WITH HIS LUTE

A HYMN IN PRAISE OF NEPTUNE

HORACE'S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE

Book II, Ode 16

AN INVITATION TO DINE WRITTEN BY HORACE TO VIRGIL

Book IV, Ode 12

THE GOLDEN MEAN

Horace. Book II, Ode 10

TO THE READER

Martial

ON PORTIA

Martial. Book I, xlii

TO POTITUS

Martial. Book X, lxx

WHAT IS GIVEN TO FRIENDS IS NOT LOST

Martial

TO COTILUS

Martial

THE HAPPY LIFE

Martial

To Julius Martialis

TO A SCHOOLMASTER

Martial. Book X, lxii

EPITAPH ON EROTION

Martial. Book X, lxi

NON AMO TE

Martial. I, 32

GRATITUDE

A HYMN TO THE LARES

ELYSIUM

ORPHEUS

CERBERUS

THE HARPY

CUPID AND THE BEE

Anacreon⁶

THE ASSEMBLY OF THE GODS

A MODEL YOUNG LADY OF ANTIQUITY

(Pliny, the Younger, writes the following in a letter relative to the death of Minicia Marcella, the daughter of his friend, Fundanus.)

Tristissimus haec tibi scribo, Fundani nostri filia minore defuncta, qua puella nihil umquam festivius, amabilius, nec modo longiore vita sed prope immortalitate dignius vidi. Nondum annos quattuor decem impleverat, et iam illi anilis prudentia, matronalis gravitas erat, et tamen suavitas puellaris cum virginali 110 verecundia. Ut illa patris cervicibus inhaerebat! Ut nos amicos paternos et amanter et modeste complectabatur! ut nutrices, ut paedagogos, ut praeceptores, pro suo quemque officio diligebat! quam studiose, quam intellegenter lectitabat! ut parce custoditeque ludebat! Qua illa temperantia, qua patientia, qua etiam constantia novissimam valetudinem tulit! Medicis obsequebatur, sororem, patrem adhortabatur, ipsamque se destitutam corporis viribus vigore animi sustinebat. Duravit hic illi usque ad extremum nec aut spatio valetudinis aut metu mortis infractus est, quo plures gravioresque nobis causas relinqueret et desiderii et doloris. O triste plane acerbumque funus! O morte ipsa mortis tempus indignius! Iam destinata erat egregio iuveni, iam electus nuptiarum dies, iam nos vocati. Quod gaudium quo maerore mutatum est! Nec possum exprimere verbis quantum anima vulnus acceperim, cum audivi Fundanum ipsum, praecipientem, quod in vestes margarita gemmas fuerat erogaturus, hoc in tus et unguenta et odores impenderetur.

TRANSLATION

I have the saddest news to tell you. Our friend Fundanus has lost his youngest daughter. I never saw a girl more cheerful, more lovable, more worthy of long life—nay, of immortality. She had not yet completed her fourteenth year, and she had already the prudence of an old woman, the gravity of a matron, and still, with all maidenly modesty, the sweetness of a girl. How she would cling to her father's neck! how affectionately and discreetly she would greet us, her father's friends! how she loved her nurses, her attendants, her teachers,—everyone according to his service. How earnestly, how intelligently, she used to read! How modest was she and restrained in her sports! And with what self-restraint, what patience—nay, what courage—she bore her last illness! She obeyed the physicians, encouraged her father and sister, and, when all strength of body had left her, kept herself alive by the 111 vigor of her mind. This vigor lasted to the very end, and was not broken by the length of her illness or by the fear of death; so leaving, alas! to us yet more and weightier reasons for our grief and our regret. Oh the sadness, the bitterness of that death! Oh the cruelty of the time when we lost her, worse even than the loss itself! She had been betrothed to a noble youth; the marriage day had been fixed, and we had been invited. How great a joy changed into how great a sorrow! I cannot express in words how it went to my heart when I heard Fundanus himself (this is one of the grievous experiences of sorrow) giving orders that what he had meant to lay out on dresses, and pearls, and jewels, should be spent on incense, unguents, and spices.

TO LESBIA'S SPARROW

CICERO

The following tribute to Cicero was written by Catullus, the Roman lyric poet (87-54 b.c.)

DE PATIENTIA

THE FAVORITE PRAYER OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS⁷

ULTIMA THULE

American pride has often gloried in Seneca's "Vision of the West" written more than 1800 years ago.

THE ROMAN OF OLD

ICH BIN DEIN

The Journal of Education commends this ingenious poem, written in seven languages— English, French, German, Greek, Latin, Spanish, and Italian— as one of the best specimens of Macaronic verse in existence, and worthy of preservation by all collectors.

MALUM OPUS

FELIS

AMANTIS RES ADVERSAE

PUER EX JERSEY

SONGS THAT MAY BE USED FOR THE PROGRAMS

FLEVIT LEPUS PARVULUS⁸

16th Century Student Song

CARMEN VITÆ.

GAUDEAMUS

LAURIGER HORATIUS.

AMERICA

This singable Latin translation of America was made by Professor George D. Kellogg of Union College and appeared in The Classical Weekly.

INTEGER VITÆ.

Horace. Book I, Ode xxii

ROCK OF AGES

DIES IRAE⁹

AD SANCTUM SPIRITUS¹⁰

ADESTE, FIDELES

A Christmas Hymn

DE NATIVITATE DOMINI¹¹

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Benjamin L. D'Ooge, of the Michigan State Normal School, for his generous assistance and hearty encouragement in the preparation of this work.

Sincere thanks are due to the various authors and publishers of copyrighted books from which selections are taken for their courteous permission to copy.

Specific acknowledgment is due George Bell and Sons, London, for Martial's Epigrams; Smith, Elder, and Company, London, for The Doom of the Slothful; Houghton, Mifflin Co., for After Construing, A Roman Mirror, Enceladus, and the poems of John G. Saxe; The Chautauqua Press, for Capri and the Translations of Horace's Odes; Charles Scribner's Sons, for the Assembly of the Gods, Cerberus, the Harpy, A Plea for the Classics, and Malum Opus; The American Book Company, for Cupid and the Bee; Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., for A Christmas Hymn; New England Magazine, for the Fall of Rome; Little, Brown and Company, for the translation of Dies Irae; The Outlook Company, for the Prayer of Socrates; Allyn and Bacon, for the music for Flevit Lepus Parvulus.

I must beg forgiveness of any one whose rights I have overlooked and of a few whom, after repeated efforts, I have been unable to trace.

NOTES

HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH

D. C. HEATH & CO., Boston, New York, Chicago

LATIN

D. C. HEATH & CO., Boston, New York, Chicago

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The Value of Latin	3
Pompeii	5
Ancient Rome	7
The Roman Forum	10
The Roman House	12
Roman Slaves	13
Roman Children	15
Education among the Romans	16
Some Common Professions and Trades among the Romans	17
Roman Doctors	19
The Roman Soldier	20
Caesar	21
Cicero	23
Vergil	25
Horace	27
Roman Literature	28
Some Famous Women of Ancient Rome	29
Roman Holidays	31
Funeral Customs and Burial Places	33
Roman Games	35
Some Famous Buildings of Ancient Rome	37
Some Famous Roman Letters	38
Some Ancient Romans of Fame	40
A Roman Banquet	42
Roman Roads	44
Some Roman Gods	46
Some Famous Temples of Ancient and Modern Rome	47
Some Religious Customs	49
vi Some Famous Pictures and Sculpture	51
Roman Book and Libraries	52
Ancient Myths and Legends	53
The Ancient Myth in Modern Literature	54
What English Owes to Greek	55
Modern Rome	56
Italy of To-day	58
O Tempora! O Mores!	60

A Plea for the Classics	Eugene Field	65
On an Old Latin Text Book	T. W. Higginson	66
St. Augustine's Love of Latin	Andrew Lang	68
The Watch of the Old Gods		69
Old and New Rome	Herman Merivale	70
The Fall of Rome	Arthur Chamberlain	70
A Christmas Hymn	Alfred Dommett	71
Roman Girl's Song	Mrs. Hemans	73
Capri	Walter Taylor Field	74
Palladium	Matthew Arnold	76
After Construing	A. C. Benson	77
A Roman Mirror	Rennell Rodd	78
The Doom of the Slothful	John Addington Symonds	79
Hector and Andromache. Schiller	Tr. Sir E. B. Lytton	80
Enceladus	Henry W. Longfellow	81
Nil Admirari	John G. Saxe	83
Perdidi Diem	Mrs. Sigourney	84
Jupiter and His Children	John G. Saxe	85
The Prayer of Socrates	John H. Finley	87
By the Roman Road	Anonymous	88
A Nymph's Lament	Nora Hopper	89
Helen of Troy	Nora Hopper	92
An Etruscan Ring	J. W. Mackail	93
Orpheus With His Lute	William Shakespeare	94
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune	Thomas Campion	94
vii Horace's Philosophy of Life	Tr. Sir Theodore Martin	95
An Invitation to Dine Written by Horace to Vergil
	Tr. Sir Theodore Martin	96
The Golden Mean. Horace	Tr. Wm. Cowper	97
To the Reader. Martial	Tr. Lord Byron	98
On Portia. Martial	Tr. Lamb	98
To Potitus. Martial	Tr. John Hay	99
What Is Given To Friends Is Not Lost. Martial		99
To Cotilus. Martial	Tr. Elton	100
The Happy Life. Martial	Tr. Sir Richard Fanshawe	100
To a Schoolmaster. Martial	Tr. John Hay	101
Epitaph on Erotion. Martial	Tr. Leigh Hunt	102
Non Amo Te		102
Gratitude	Robert Burns	103
A Hymn to the Lares	Robert Herrick	103
Elysium. Schiller	Tr. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton	104
Orpheus	Robert Herrick	105
Cerberus	Oliver Herford	105
The Harpy	Oliver Herford	106
Cupid and the Bee	Anacreon	106
The Assembly of the Gods A. Tassoni	Tr. A. Werner	107
A Model Young Lady of Antiquity	Pliny the Younger	109
Translation	Alfred J. Church	110
To Lesbia's Sparrow	Catullus	111
Translation	Elton	112
Cicero	Catullus	112
Translation	Charles Lamb	113
De Patientia	Thomas à Kempis	113
The Favorite Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots		114
Ultima Thule	Seneca	114
Translation		115
The Roman of Old	Anonymous	115
Ich bin Dein		116
Malum Opus	James A. Morgan	117
viii Felis		118
Amantis Res Adversae		119
Puer ex Jersey		121
Songs that may be used for the Programs Items in italics—except translators' names—have been added by the transcriber.
Flevit Lepus Parvulus		125
Carmen Vitae. Longfellow	Tr. Benjamin L. D'Ooge	126
Text		127
Gaudeamus Igitur		128
Text		129
Lauriger Horatius		132
Text		133
America	Tr. George D. Kellogg	134
Integer Vitae	Horace	136
Text		137
Rock of Ages. Toplady	Tr. William Gladstone	138
Dies Irae	Thomas of Celano	139
Ad Sanctum Spiritus	Robert II, King of France	142
Adeste Fideles		143
De Nativitate Domini		145
Bibliography		147
Acknowledgment		149
Footnotes	end of main text
Publisher's Price List	end of volume

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The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Handbook for Latin Clubs

A HANDBOOK FOR LATIN CLUBS

BY

SUSAN PAXSON

TEACHER OF LATIN IN THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL OMAHA, NEB.

D. C. HEATH & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

Copyright, 1916, By D. C. Heath & Co.

PREFACE

CONTENTS

THE VALUE OF LATIN

POMPEII

ANCIENT ROME

THE ROMAN FORUM

THE ROMAN HOUSE

ROMAN SLAVES

ROMAN CHILDREN

EDUCATION AMONG THE ROMANS

SOME COMMON PROFESSIONS AND TRADES AMONG THE ROMANS

ROMAN DOCTORS

THE ROMAN SOLDIER

CAESAR

CICERO

VERGIL

HORACE

ROMAN LITERATURE

SOME FAMOUS WOMEN OF ANCIENT ROME

ROMAN HOLIDAYS

FUNERAL CUSTOMS AND BURIAL PLACES

ROMAN GAMES

SOME FAMOUS BUILDINGS OF ANCIENT ROME

SOME FAMOUS ROMAN LETTERS

SOME ANCIENT ROMANS OF FAME

A ROMAN BANQUET

ROMAN ROADS

SOME ROMAN GODS

SOME FAMOUS TEMPLES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN ROME

SOME RELIGIOUS CUSTOMS

SOME FAMOUS PICTURES AND SCULPTURE

ROMAN BOOKS AND LIBRARIES

ANCIENT MYTHS AND LEGENDS

THE ANCIENT MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE

WHAT ENGLISH OWES TO GREEK

MODERN ROME

ITALY OF TO-DAY

O TEMPORA! O MORES!

A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS2

ON AN OLD LATIN TEXT BOOK

OLD AND NEW ROME

ROMAN GIRL'S SONG

PALLADIUM

AFTER CONSTRUING

NIL ADMIRARI

PERDIDI DIEM

JUPITER AND HIS CHILDREN

A CLASSIC FABLE

MORAL

THE PRAYER OF SOCRATES

BY THE ROMAN ROAD

A NYMPH'S LAMENT

AN ETRUSCAN RING

ORPHEUS WITH HIS LUTE

Book II, Ode 16

Book IV, Ode 12

THE GOLDEN MEAN

Horace. Book II, Ode 10

Martial

Martial. Book I, xlii

TO POTITUS

Martial. Book X, lxx

Martial

TO COTILUS

Martial

Martial

To Julius Martialis

Martial. Book X, lxii

EPITAPH ON EROTION

Martial. Book X, lxi

Martial. I, 32

GRATITUDE

A HANDBOOK FOR
LATIN CLUBS

TEACHER OF LATIN IN THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
OMAHA, NEB.

Copyright, 1916,
By D. C. Heath & Co.

A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS²

Anacreon⁶

THE FAVORITE PRAYER OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS⁷

FLEVIT LEPUS PARVULUS⁸

DIES IRAE⁹

AD SANCTUM SPIRITUS¹⁰