And he was a student of classics who could and did spout Homer and Virgil in their original Greek and Latin.
State Wolfpack all go home early. (The Georgetown Hoyas, despite common misconception, are named after a Greek and Latin phrase, not a rare type of bulldog.) Cats, meanwhile, sit just above .500 with a 492-491 mark.
The overall numbers of students taking Latin and Greek, though small, have been fairly constant in recent years - about 10, 000 doing Latin and 1, 000 doing Greek at GCSE.
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The word automobile comes from self in Greek and movable in Latin.
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He had many friends and vivid passions: for music, sailing and chess, for ancient Greek and Greece, for composing Latin verse and raising orchids.
Mr Scafi tells this story well from the sublime start to the ridiculous end, with spectacular flourishes of art history and confident quotes from Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
They believed in education, for women as well as men, which meant mathematics, chemistry and geology as much as Latin and Greek.
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She said schools with humanities as a specialism had the option to focus on the teaching and learning of classical studies - Latin, Classical Greek and classical civilisation - alongside a core option of history, geography or English.
In Yes Minister, Sir Humphrey and his civil service colleague Bernard Woolley regularly flaunt their classical education with word-perfect Latin and Greek quotations they know their boss will not understand.
He had shown precocity as a child, when he and his sister used to try to outdo each other by declaiming from memory grand speeches from Corneille and Racine, and he was fluent in Latin and had taught himself Greek before he was 12.
The Kamuzu Academy was founded, a college based on Eton, at which British teachers inculcated Latin and Greek into favoured African children.
Computer scientist Ohta Masataka says the solution makes as little sense as giving the letters in the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets the same codes.
He says part of the problem is that too few people now study classical Greek, Latin or Arabic and there are not enough experts to interpret the original texts.
His plays reveal knowledge of languages, the law, Latin and Greek classics, medicine, falconry, the sea, music, and nature that is so deep it could have only been learned through personal experience.
When he arrived in London he had precisely three ha'pence in his pocket, but he had a priceless asset in his companion in the weary walk from Lichfield Dr Samuel Johnson no less, who had taught him Latin and Greek, and who never ceased to encourage and admire him.
For this homo is the Greek for same, not Latin for man, and the word is all Greek.
As a child and teen, I studied a variety of languages, including Latin, German, classical Greek, and Hebrew, but I never learned enough to be considered fluent by any stretch of the imagination.
We know specifically that Edward de Vere was fluent in four foreign languages, Latin, Greek, Italian, and French.
Hence Diageo, for the merged Guinness-Grand Met, which combines the Latin for day with the Greek for world and means nothing in any language.
Hard to believe now, but in the early 1960s, most U.S. public schools still taught Latin, trigonometry, calculus, ancient Greek and Roman history, philosophy and civics.
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Greek cities and villages are a sea and an ocean away from Latin America.
Yet the Greek economy shares many features with the economic models prevailing in the former Soviet Union and in Latin American nations.
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