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This article presents a two-day lesson plan for teachers who would like to incorporate basic Latin verse composition into their advanced high school classes or intermediate to advanced college courses. I begin with a brief introduction explaining why someone might want to do such a thing and what the goals of the lesson are. The lesson plan itself is divided into two parts. On Day 1 students derive necessary metrical rules themselves by close inspection of a Latin poem. On Day 2, with the careful guidance of their teacher, they produce their own Latin elegiac poem, I conclude with some further advice for teachers and a set of appendices for those who would like to take their verse composition further., At nine o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, May 21, 1884, candidates for a BA degree in Classics at Cambridge University sat down to translate twenty-one lines of Keats' Endymion [...]

In this paper I describe a new model for the apparatus criticus in the digital age, one which eliminates many of the limitations of the traditional print apparatus and allows readers to take an active role in constituting their own texts. In addition to discussing the prospects and possibilities for the apparatus criticus, I make a broader case for a new approach to editing texts and try to explain in an accessible way some of the benefits of digital scholarship. These issues are particularly important to think through as the SCS develops their Digital Latin Library and similar projects are underway elsewhere., Introduction It is a truth universally acknowledged that no one except textual critics and pedants actually reads an apparatus criticus. Why should they? Consider how few 'general readers' read footnotes. [...]

Terentianus Maurus, a North African writing probably in the third century a.d., bequeathed to posterity a preface and three polymetric poems: De litteris, De syllabis and De metris. The poems' titles reflect their content, the first two covering the pronunciation of letters and syllables and the third discussing the details of a bewildering array of metres. Unpromising subject matter for poetry? On the contrary. Terentianus Maurus uses this raw material to display his extraordinary poetic skill, while also conveying useful technical information. This paper first examines the programmatic preface to his poems, which is studded with intertextual gems and shines with every kind of literary polish. It then turns to look at passages from the rest of Terentianus' poetry to see how he puts the ideals of his preface into poetic practice. The paper aims to show that Terentianus Maurus is not, or not just, a grammarian, but rather a consummate literary artist in the tradition of learned didactic verse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the engagement of English poet A. E. Housman with the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) monumental dictionary of Latin. It notes that Housman's decision to direct his publishers to send some of his books to the Thesaurus, the institution supporting TLL, reflects his concern to help TLL promote Latin scholarship. Moreover, Housman also sent letters and books with some of the scholars working at the Thesaurus and continued to read and annotate articles in the lexicon.