The Rest of the Sententiae

5. Although the state ought to be immortal, the safety of this not being destroyed
depends on the life of one man.
6. Although that new slave is a human being, he does doubt to arrest him.
7. That he was siezed,although he shamelessly was the first one to respond, yet at last he rejected nothing.
8. They say Milo came through the stadium bearing an ox on his shoulder.
12. For this reason we all take up subjection to pick out, so that we are able to be free.

Sententiae #11

Sententiae #4

Sententiae #10

Senentiae #3

Sententiae #9

Bonus Vocab

1. emo-
2. dum
3. duo
4. durus
5. edo
6. effero
7. efficio
8. egregius

Cicero

Cicero's writing style became popular in the Medieval Ages as they used his rhetorics in their writing almost as constantly as he did. His writings were one of te few Latin writings to survive into the Middle Ages, and therefore became very popular among the people and scholars of the time. His writings were easy to get a hold of at the time, and therefore were present in almost every king and scholar's library. ONne person who it affected inparticular was St. Augustine of Hippo. This man lived in Carthage for a while in 374 A.D. and taught at a school, until he moved to Italy a year later. There he started to teach rhetoric, the language tool patented by Cicero, and start a church in Milan using the Latin rhetoric as his main course of preachin in the Catholic religion.The Catholic Church quickly picked up on this, and made it their own. BOethius is also another man who wrote a book named "The Consolation of Philosophy" which also uses the Ciceroneon rhetoric.

Sicily: Bronze to Roman

• 1000 B.C.- The Phoenecian traders from the Middle East established trading settlements along the north-western coast.
• 735 B.C.-Chaldians of Euboa establishes the first Greek city on the island of Sicily called Naxos.
• 485 B.C.- Geleon, the tyrant of Gela, centralizes the control of Syracuse in the city of Syracuse.
• 480 B.C.- Syracuse defeats Carthage at the battle of Himera.
• 413 B.C.- Syracuse absolutely destroys the Athenian Naval attack force.
• 409-309 B.C.- Carthage and Siculi create a series of indecisive wars with Syracuse.
• 282 B.C.- Italy begins their invasion of Sicily when former mercenaries from Italy take Messina.
• 264-241 B.C.- Rome and Carthage battle in the First Punic War.
• 263 B.C.- Syracuse allies with Rome as a vassal state, giving up all freedom.

Chapter 31 Vocab Test

1. as, assis-an as
2. digitus-toe
3. elephantus- elephant
4. rumor-rumor
5. vinum- wine
6. cum-when
7. doleo-to grieve
8. fero-to bear
9. confero-to confer
10. occido- to fall down

Mr. Wojo

My Blog has been really weird concerning my test. I was going to talk to you about it today in class, on whether or not i should just post it in another blog post.

It just posted after i posted it on the fourth try today...I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, blogger has always worked except for this piece.

Modern Marvels

This is yet another history channel show in which the Roman architecture from the past relates to today's structures. Such buildings as M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore come from the original designs of the Colosseum in ancient Rome. Without ancient Rome's architecture, we would not have many of the buildings we have today. To see the videos watch the following clip on the provided link http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=57080&display_order=2&mini_id=1335.

The Origin of Valentines Day

Valentines Day, which is celebrated on Feb. 14, is celebrated as a day of sharing love. It is most widely remembered in honor of Saint Valentine who is said to be a Christian martyr who gave his life for believing in Christianity. His teaching of love is what he is remembered for though. There is another theory that he infact had a mistress who wouldn't marry hime so he cut out his heart and set it it her.

http://www.littlechicagoreview.com/pages/full_story?page_label=home&widget=full_story&content_instance_id=1968858&open=&

Decisive Battles

This show was around a couple yeas ago, but got cancelled within a year of its start. It uses computer graphics from a game called Rome: Total War to recreate battles such as Adrianople or Marathon without having to pay the cost of having to pay the actors. The show is historically accurate along with the units. To check out the shows you can go to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9177658906284274201&hl=en.

History Channel Show: Cities of the Underworld

This show has been around for a while, but is really great. Though the host Don Wilderman may not be Michael Wood he still leads the audience on a great tour of the underground part of cities. In one of his episodes, he went to a city about seventy miles away from Pompeii and went the the underground part of the arena there. Not only did he do this, but he went to a recently discovered underground brothel where the gladiators would often stay the night be fore the big fight. To watch full episodes you can go to http://www.history.com/cities-of-the-underworld.

Cat's In Rome

Swarms of cats have began to take over the heart of the ancient city of Rome's ruins. They have taken residence in the coliseum, the pantheon, the marble foot of Constantine, and almost all of the Roman temples. Since this phenomenon has sprung up, postcards and pictures of the cats in their new habitats have become very popular. Some think that the cats may have originated from when the worship of the Egyptian cat goddess Bebet, and the practice became very popular in Rome. Cats were finally banned in Rome, xbut it is believed that the cats of today are descendents.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/AroundTheWorld/story?id=6924425&page=1

Latin Subordination Test

Quod erat optandum maxime, iudices, et quod unum ad invidiam vestri ordinis infamiamque iudiciorum sedandam maxime pertinebat, id non humano consilio, sed prope divinitus datum atque oblatum vobis summo rei publicae tempore videtur. Inveteravit enim iam opinio perniciosa rei publicae, vobisque periculosa, quae non modo apud populum Romanum, sed etiam apud exteras nationes, omnium sermone percrebruit: his iudiciis quae nunc sunt, pecuniosum hominem, quamvis sit nocens, neminem posse damnari. Nunc, in ipso discrimine ordinis iudiciorumque vestrorum, cum sint parati qui contionibus et legibus hanc invidiam senatus inflammare conentur, [reus] in iudicium adductus est [C. Verres], homo vita atque factis omnium iam opinione damnatus, pecuniae magnitudine sua spe et praedicatione absolutus. Huic ego causae, iudices, cum summa voluntate et expectatione populi Romani, actor accessi, non ut augerem invidiam ordinis, sed ut infamiae communi succurrerem. Adduxi enim hominem in quo reconciliare existimationem iudiciorum amissam, redire in gratiam cum populo Romano, satis facere exteris nationibus, possetis; depeculatorem aerari, vexatorem Asiae atque Pamphyliae, praedonem iuris urbani, labem atque perniciem provinciae Siciliae. De quo si vos vere ac religiose iudicaveritis, auctoritas ea, quae in vobis remanere debet, haerebit; sin istius ingentes divitiae iudiciorum religionem veritatemque perfregerint, ego hoc tam adsequar, ut iudicium potius rei publicae, quam aut reus iudicibus, aut accusator reo, defuisse videatur.







Parse Part:



1. erat 3rd person sing imperfect indicative active of "esse"meaning "to be"

2. pertinebat: 3rd person singular imperfect indicative active of "pertinere" meaning to pertain

3. videtur: 3rd person singular imperfect indicative active of "esse" meaning "to be"

4. sunt: 3rd person plural present indicative active of "esse" meaning "to be"

5. sit: 3rd person singular present subjunctive active of "esse" meaning "to be"

6. sint: 3rd person plural present subjunctive active of "esse" meaning "to be"

7. debet: 3rd person singular indicative active of "debere" meaning "to owe"

8. conentur: 3rd person plural present indicative passive of "conere" meaning "to attempt"

9. percrebruit: 3rd person singular perfect active of "percrescere" meaning "to spread out"

10.videatur: 3rd person sing present subjunctive passive of "videre" meaning "to seem"

Subordinate Part:

1. Quod erat optandum maxime quod unum ad invidiam vestri ordinis infamiamque iudiciorum sedandam maxime
2. De quo si vos vere ac religiose iudicaveritis, auctoritas ea in vobis remanere debet
3. Nunc, in ipso discrimine ordinis iudiciorumque vestrorum
4. Huic ego causae, summa voluntate et expectatione populi Romani
5. Adduxi enim hominem in quo reconciliare existimationem iudiciorum amissam satis facere exteris nationibus



Paralelism Part:



1. De quo si vos vere ac religiose iudicaveritis, auctoritas ea, quae in vobis remanere debet, haerebit;

2. Quod erat optandum maxime, iudices, et quod unum ad invidiam vestri ordinis infamiamque iudiciorum sedandam maxime pertinebat,

3. his iudiciis quae nunc sunt, pecuniosum hominem, quamvis sit nocens, neminem posse damnari.

4. quam aut reus iudicibus, aut accusator reo, defuisse videatur.

5. Adduxi enim hominem in quo reconciliare existimationem iudiciorum amissam, redire in gratiam cum populo Romano, satis facere exteris nationibus, possetis;

Script

VADER’S APOLOGY
Script
ACT 1
Tyler: Charged you are, of Luke’s corruption and believing not in the side of the light. Here shall you be tried in front of a court of Jedi, of your brethren of the past. Come up to will be the witnesses who brought charges you against. Say what you of this?
Brett: I have done none of what you speak. These accusations are false. So perhaps I did try to take over the galaxy and use the Death Star to blow up a few of your planets, but this is not what I am accused of. I know nothing.
Tyler: Not speak of this matter shall you. Continue on the matter at hand should you.
Brett: My work was done because of what I was told by emperor Palpatine.
Tyler: And a great and deceitful traitor he was.
Brett: One that you once respected as much as I did.
Tyler: Then very well, on you should carry.
Brett: (GETTING ANNOYED) Yes. Well as I was saying, the great emperor Palapatine, who was respected by us all at one time, told me that I could be the most powerful and greatest man besides him if I followed him in his ways. He also told me that I could save my wife and children if I did. So, as any man would do I took up the offer to help the future. And this is what you accuse me of? I was only trying to help the future’s fate by teaching my son the way of life…
Tyler: The way of the side of the dark you mean?!?!
Brett: The exact opposite, I was trying to teach them the way of the great emperor Palpatine. The way that you followed, as you elected him your prime minister to lead you in his same ways. As I said before I know nothing.
Tyler: Well if it is nothing then you know, here why are you?
Brett: (RISING ANGER) That is what I have been trying to ask you. Maybe it is because you are jealous of my power, and you hate me for it. Maybe, this whole thing is a sham and it is you who should be on trial for not wanting the people to know the truth.
Tyler: Hold your tongue you must. Perhaps then it is time to forth bring the witness first.



ACT 2
Dan: The setting is now very intense as the young Jedi, Luke Skywalker, is called to the stand. Luke, being the son of Darth Vader, has a very close relationship with the accused. He is though, the main person who accused Darth Vader of corrupting him and others because he believes in the way of the republic and Jedi more. What follows is not really a questioning of the witness process, but more of making a joke of the process.
Tyler: Call I do to the stand the son of Vader, young Luke Skywalker.
Tim: (WALKS UP, TAKES A QUICK SCARED LOOK AT VADER, AND BOWS TO YODA) Yes master.
Tyler: Sit you must young Padiwan, sit.
Tim: Yes master. (BOWS AGAIN AND SITS DOWN IN THE PREASSIGNED CHAIR)
Tyler: Cross-examination you may now begin Lord Vader. (POINTS TO LUKE)
Brett: Yes. My so-called son…Luke Skywalker…did you not come to me in the first place, not I to you.
Tim: (LOOKING DEFENSIVE AND A LITTLE TAKEN BACK) Yes I did, but….
Brett: (A LITTLE PROUD OF HIMSELF) Good so you admit to this…did you not also try and do whatever it took to be close to me, even if that meant joining me in my quest to crush the rebellion.
Tim: (GETTING FRUSTRATED AND RISING OUT OF HIS SEAT) Master Yoda he is taking this way out of…
Brett: Master Yoda, don’t you teach your students the way of patience, a main virtue of the Jedi. Why doesn’t young Skywalker exhibit this virtue, is he not “the chosen one”. (SAYING AS IT DAWNS ON HIM) As a matter of fact, didn’t you once call me the “chosen one”. So if we are the same why has he not been tried; why am I the only one up her, shouldn’t it be him as well. Does this not also show that your perfect Jedi system is not also so sure of itself. Where do your true intentions lie?
Tyler: (ANGRILY) Enough this is!!! Shall be called a recess it will, and the fate determined of Lord Vader it will.


ACT 3
Dan: The tide has turned against the court of Jedi, and the important Jedi realize this. Vader is voted guilty by a narrow margin and is told to pick his own punishment and starts off on a joking matter, but this was not intended to be a comedy…
Tyler: What think you of your sentence of punishment Lord Vader.
Brett: Perhaps you should give me back my Death Star for being such an important role in your development…but no I will certainly not go to prison, perhaps exile to Naboo.
Tyler: Leave up to the young one your fate we will.
Tim: (STANDS UP & SAYS RATHER MALICIOUSLY) Well, father, I have given it much thought and consideration, and all in all you have treated me (SARCASTICALLY) very well. And I think you have been given a very good trial. So I think it is only fair to give you what you gave my mother…death.
Brett: (RATHER CALMLY) But I shall not die by your hands. (PICKS UP HIS LIGHTSABER, DRAWS IT OUT AND KILLS HIMSELF)

END

Chapter 30 Vocab Test

1. honor- honor
2. ceteri- the rest
3. quantus- how much
4. ridiculus- ridiculous
5. vivus- living
6. furtim- secretly
7. mox- soon
8. primo- at first
9. bibo- to drink
10. cognosco- to learn
11. comprehendo- to comprehend
12. consumo- to consume

Pliny Writes To His Friends

I am angry; I do not know whether I ought to be, but I am angry. You know how unfair it is at times, how often I am out of control, how rather prone am I to always complain about love. I do not know whether I have the supply to be fair; fear is great, and I am severely angry, so long as no long letter from you. You have won me over at one time or another, if now at least and your letters are far away from me. This indeed is my only excuse, you see only what is remaining. Not to be able to hear you "I was not in the city" or "I was busy"; May they not allow, may they forbid that so you hear "He is weak." Do not think as much you is to have anxiety. To know what I desire to make and to do. Now I am very much away from your letters! Goodbye!