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svat
on March 24, 2025
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The Vatican's Latinist (2017)
https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignor...
— per this blog post (which takes
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons...
as the starting point), most classicists “can't sight-read a complex Latin text all that well” [unlike medievalists and Renaissance scholars].
dhosek
on March 25, 2025
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Granted I’m 35 years out of undergrad, but my classics professors could most definitely sight-read complex Latin just fine.
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