Un1Yers1ty or !ex&• Publioat1on1 ChJ1.1iveiisjty forlfe*as' BWletin _-_ND. 23-12..:. ._Marc.h ,22., 1923 LILaibi n LL e il1fle t . . No. s~ _ March~ 1923 J: 1Roberlia F: ILavi!.ruJer,:Edi:tor ,\-.W. lL:Rattle_ Jln.d GlLata M.. 'ASS\MAl1'tTBR Al'l 1£ff0'ffil!IIJilFJHQB A:D!U.JSlflN.-.Jf.l!i;AS, UNUNl>HR:ll:ll\E:'AOI'' CUJ"1.U$lJSl' !if\21912 J.. a:'lle-· Lati"n rLea:fUn is· -is:d,1_eq· hyi 0th ' enlisftedT"c:fieifdrfor 'a aatglogli'eofl"om r ~ Depamment of! Olassica1 Larrgua-ges a8.'.: m;my.schools ?S cy-ou care to,in:ves­ i . in the interest of· Latin teachitigi iri tigate,i. and rchoose the ,com;ses that tl t tlre high! s;~noods· ofc:G.'~as. .1 ·apJ)eal· most j;o.cyou. ::: !Editor. Tdd'exas : cqJlegeSI will cofferri CO'Ul:ses ---o---,. fro!Jr year to ·yealf of t~·--type-i and S SUMMER smJrder ba-mee.btl:re need bf: l~rge1 num­. to scl\oo} campaign'n--foi:: Latinateach-1bers who: wete1tr;girtg to .absolvei-en­(' ·ers'." These words were used as a· mance1•c'redits.' Several> years passed ~ "slogari-:'_f'iTw'.o cllim-drede Texas Ii.atfo before~ther.e' were m;my ·cnl(s :~( ex-cept, ' Teachers in the Summer ' Session dfc peThaps, i:n English. and history) .-for ~ f' ~.,f922.":' U'h:tPugh -persdnal' l~tters ancl-a:dvanced courses. '1 Thi&~w~particu­: numerous articles i:n·a-aily: and weekly l!uly true imEatin11and fo'r this:·rea­1 papers, the ~appearwas::made'; ·· '£:eacJ:r-'SOn °many -teachers WhOP desired• to ers·wene urged to go out bf 'the state; inaji>r in1 L-atm 'Chose 'another sjubject. if pdssible; because o'f the in,¥igoration' This ~citJ.cHtion lho1longex exists in ~the -and inspir:i.1lioh0 that wduld come from ·Universitt br Texas·summH ·sessions. r ·a · cooler· clitnate; from new -surround" In both •terms,' advanced courses· are "ings; -and,from--contact wibh p'rofesc:ors offered, 'artd1 these "Courses are\'Hlways of 'th'e highest attainmentw such' as -consecutive, sb \tha't 0 the·,teachers who Texas could· not affC>J'd to•. have. ·As come fot th'e ·first · term : µiaiy· he -as­.r far as a rec'ord -cculd: be secu'red, one' sured ~that ·they> ·will lose no Eltime. hundred antl .tmrfy-fiv'e teachers! of Texas UniveJ.:sity . will· ~continue , to i -Latin· ih Texas were-enrolled ·lasf ·offen; eaclm summer, courses fo fit ·the summe-r inmourseS-'either in on out of-need of ·those: who "desi:rte td -absolve -the· state. entrance 0 c'reditS" lma for rthose who · The success o!" this effort-lends en-wish· to receive c'redi't ,.fo'I' th'e--two couragenierit ··for a similar· canipaign1 numbered·. courses required · for •the this year:·-Wii'l iyou ncrt "plim to ~.t:: B.A.--degree'. There will be gi1veri -al­ 0 1t'en(li ·· y,ours'elf?· wm your.'not 1offer ways the·"Course in methods 0 desighed your services to help '"'Organize your fbr teachers:--·But-more and more, ·the , county in such a way that ·every -State-Univer,sity wHhrpeciali7ie in -ad­t nteacher oft Latin µi:iy.; li>e..reached..an -vanced· w,ork_.. ajpn~ alL line.>. a Tuast 2 LATIN LEAFLET tl summer, there were in all departments one hundred and seventy-five enrolled for graduate work alor.e,-a number greater than that of the precedin!! long session. If you can not afford the expense of a session out of the ~~art~il c~~~s~;~ec~~;~:s,T~:::af~}~egfe;; The c:.;ning: ro0m ad.ioining the living room, 1s entered through two French doors, une on either side of the rock chimney. Some one guessed the door that led the way to iefresh­ments, for over it were the words: Vestigia nulla retrorsum. no~ more than. three. Do the work ILike .a group of happy youngsters, the daily and contmue through the frnal Varsity students-many of them examinations. It may be possible to ' grave seniors-formed a line and transfer your credits in the end to the college from which you prefer to get your degree. Even though not every one of you can now foresee that you will get a degree, te semper iu­vabit meminisse pro labore praemium accepisse. marched in the direction they were bidden. The dining room was not a triclinium, for instead of reclining around the table on three lecti, every­one took his ferculum and served him­self. The table was beautiful in its [color S'Cheme and bountiful in its sup­ ----o ply of food. All agreed that The Latin Club of the University of I Texas was delightfully entertained on Non disputandum est de gustibus. Monday evening, February 26, by Dr. f was a fitting quotation. As many of and Mrs. Dewing at their home on ' the group had walked out from the Grandview Avenue. As the guests Icity, these words, too, were appro­ arrived, they realized that they we'!'e j priate: entering a Roman house, for at the t · "b · nd · t I 1 vestibule these warnings met their I 0 P imum ci t co imen um ames. eyes: Cave canem and Calceos ab-1 Near the bread was the sign Panem ster,qeatis sic impune introeatis. 1 et Circenses. It took a little reflection All fear was laid aside when the I to recall the use made in Rome of hostess expressed 1,he welcome of the Ithese words, but everybody knew home. She Jed the way '.nto the spaci-enough Latin, especially when he saw ous living room filled with rugs, bread and connected panem with pan­bronzes, and pictures brought back , try, to appreciate their significance. from Constantinople and Athens, The caput cenae was a capacious bowl where the Dewings lived for several of scalloped oysters and by the bowl years. these verses: Latin inscriptions excited curiosity,• . . . . . and an effort at translating some of IPiscis. eram humilis natans in gur­them caused much speculation and gite vasto, laughter. The inscriptions are given, Coctu~ nunc adsum. Me ne fasti­ in the order that one member found them and without trnnslation so that they may likewise test and interest others who read this article. At­tached ~o a Persian print was Horace's Persicos odi, puer, apparatus. Over the mantel of the open fireplace was this riddle: Quidfaciesvenerissivenerisante Nepereaspereasnesedeassedeas. Above a closed door that seemed mys­terious was the quotation: Qui hie intrat spem relinquat. Naturally no guest was anxious to go in that direction. For the loqua­cious this timely warning was given: Qui quae volt dicit quae non vult audiet. And for students of English was tl:is admonition: Jnfinitivum ne findas. dias. "Once I was a little fish, Swimming in the deep; Now I'm cooked r,nd in a dLh-Count me not too cheap." Add to the bread ::.ud fish many other delightful dishes, and you will under­stand this sign: E x magna cena stomacho fit max­ima poena. Near the water and punch was a placard bearing these words: Nunc est bibendum. and later, over the dessert was the sign: Dulcibus dulcia. After the supper, the members of the Club conducted their usual hour of reading, Seneca's "Phaedra" being the play for this term. A MEMBI!:R. LATIN LEAFLET SATURA XI De lngenio Q. Horatii Flacci You ask me what I think of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Flaccus, the maker of verse, and the friend of the mighty Maecenas, Son of a freedman father, yet as famed as the greatest of consuls. Well do I knqw the mah, and can tell both his life and his nature, Which I got from his very own lips with a great deal of troub.e and labor. • Boldly he started his life in com­mand of a Roman legion; Ah, but he cut a swath when under command of great Brutus, O'er the Phillipian plains he dashed on a milky-white charger. He was a gallant indeed then-But hold you a moment. After the battle was o'er and the plains all ghastly with corpses Horace had ta'en to his heels in dis­tinctly un-Romanish fashion. Gone were his noble aims and so was his small patrimony. Back into Rome he went, a sadder but wiser young fellow. "Ah," said Horace at last when safely in Rome he landed, . "Such is the life of a blood, such is the way of ambition. I'm through with this sort ?f ~areer; henceforth 'safety first IS my motto." Far from the games and crowds and the shows and the flappers, Undisturbed he could write the pas­sionate odes and the epodes. . Horace is long ago dead; but his satires pursue us forever. Yes, but I like him ev'n so; for he was an honest old Roman, And a regular fellow, too. I can see him right now in his toga Staring at Latin maids as he walked down the Via Sacra. A bit retired he was and filled with some crazy notions. "Better to live," he said, "in a little Sabinian farm-house Than to be co·nsul in Rome"; and I know he was wrong when he said it. Yet he was genial too, a free and a wholesome companion, And at the drinking feasts, he lifted a wicked tumbler. A prince of good fellows he was when along with Varius and Vergil, They bent o'er their brimming cup:s and sang in the wee hours of the morning. 'Tis true that he didn't know the very first principles of living-, Thought loafing' the. best thing in life and hated all bustle and worry, Was always teaching a moral, and al­ways teaching it wrongly, A bit too stuck on himself and his satires and odes and _epodes; . But every man has his faults, and Horace had his velut si 1 So he got him a job; back into IEgregio insparsos reprehendas cor­ normalcy turned he, Thinking no more of wars, no more of the cursus honorum. "Carpe diem " said he, "Go to! I am through with that business." So he stayed home of nights, and didn't go out with the fellows, Forgot how it felt to .be.young, grew old-maidish and pr1gg1sh: "Me for the simple life," he said, he, a bachelor of thirty, And spent all his extra time in writ-in~ hexameter verses; O what a life to lead for a gay young bachelor of thirty. Vergil one night took him out to call on the mighty Maecenas, Maecenas the friend of the muses and tr~sty meal-ticket of poets, Who gathered around him the bards as a hen gathers 'round her her chickens. To shorten our story a bit, Maecenas favored our Horace,. Made him his trusty friend to do and to go as he listed, And gave him a Sabine farm where free from the sights of the city, pore naevos. Yet he was true to his muse; a bright and a cheerful old poet, He wasted no odes on fights or strug­gles of nation and nation, But san~ his songs to his wine, or indited a poem to Chloe. Yet in sober fact our bard was a right noble fellow: Nothing-in him was mean; he walked in his ways uprightly. With genial and kindly glance at his suffering fellow-mortals, And mixed with a bit of sublime his little accounts of their foibles. He was not in the very first rank, not with the noblest and daring, But with that band serene who live their lives justly and gladly. Looking with tolerant eyes on the faults and the sins of their neigh-hors. Submitted as a paper on "Horace the Man; a Character Study," by Arthnr Sampley, a senior student in the University of Texas. 4 4 I:;ATIN-:LEAFI:;ET T • A=-PHILOSOPHER'S:-:TERMS I --· Miss Roberta F .. Laventler of-Uni­( -CLARIFDED versity of·Tuxas: · Latin fr a:Rcl -Or.eek ----I ""199. "All the words.-V:'h.ich -we einplloy -5:--Tlie-Latin Departments· of -the _de~end -upon--senSible rdeas-a1'.d _th se iour ·high· schools mDallas -are· p-:.an­wh~ch -a:r:e · made -:use of ~ stand or ·ning a' "Latin' Week,'L covering 0the act10ns·-and 'no-t10ns quite .--r_emovjed 'dates-Aprit 10-14~ · Closing .this week from --se:ise -}rave . the1:: Tise . f~6m there will be on 'Saturday-a gathering thence;-and ·from obvious -sens1lile of--L-atin · teachers· within ·-a radius· of i~i;_a~ are _tTa~sferre? to-more abstruse I.sixty "mi!e's:---Every. -teircher · wilb be ·~1gnificatrons. Thus!·--for--exatnple,_ Ito -permitted to brirrg· also one·s'tudent to ~rnai;e, .comprehend, adhere_; "CU'Ilce1ye epresent·her schoor · The idea'is·bor­mstil,-drngust, etc;, -are all wOTds tak1en Towed -from 0 tlie district meets 6f -the fTom ~the. --operation .of--_sen'si~Ie .thi.tjgs ' Fntel:schofastic· League:. -..u 't?is ·ven­'.1'.1d "applied ~o ce_r_t~;i: mode~ o,f thmk-. tuTe-vroves -=c~essful, 1t. 1s.·.ho.ped·tflat mg. ~Y\'.:eber, .Ai., History oJ. E"hilos-other--centers w1Ir·have·a·smnlar pro­ophy, _P: 375. _ . .. -·grom'.' ·ContempOTaneous---with -0the The rdea· express~~ m -~he extr*ct meet 'will be a second ·assembly of the ah?ve ·-can be 'put .s1DTI2l:y antl d -early· ·State· -Classical -DiVision as· ·phmhed thrs· way:---every-word is -first --a 1fh:ys-·for in -Houston-fast November. ical--c-oncept: -'Let-rrie·illustrate·fr0m r. rn -. • . . --l' -ta:k · -f .. -th · tr·act:~"To 6. -_,_he foHowrng tnote or apprec1a­ examp es en rom e ex . , _..-f ~ __,., f = Th -L' LF'tz'' h instil," for instance, ·(iristillaie·from "10rr: rom .r;ro essor' . os. · 1 _uug , 1 . • · d 'til/n, ·rch'on--~ means" first to formerly at the head of·tfie-Lat1ff-De­ m a~ . s ,