From slusnia@tulane.edu Fri Nov 15 09:25:34 2002 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with SMTP id gAFHPOkW052766 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:25:24 -0800 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Nov 15 09:25:23 2002 -0800 Received: from trend3.tcs.tulane.edu (trend3-vw.tcs.tulane.edu [129.81.255.237]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with ESMTP id gAFHPMRn032016 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:25:23 -0800 Received: from trend3.tcs.tulane.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by trend3.tcs.tulane.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAFHPMVX027827 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:25:22 -0600 Received: from tulane.edu (majestic.tcs.tulane.edu [129.81.224.6]) by trend3.tcs.tulane.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAFHPMuE027780 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:25:22 -0600 Received: from [129.81.110.214] ([129.81.110.214]) by tulane.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAFHPIV6018215 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:25:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:28:22 -0600 Subject: Re: veni vidi vici From: "Susann S. Lusnia" To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 11/15/02 11:15 AM, "Elizabeth Vandiver" wrote: > D K Oosterhuis wrote: > >> One of the vineyards has a large label telling the whole story of the >> wines' name in Latin. I've never made room to bring a whole bottle back, >> but I did copy the text down, as it would make a great exercise for a Latin >> class. It contains simple vocabulary as well as purpose, result, and >> indirect command clauses. It's filed away somewhere, sadly, as I'm >> currently teaching Greek. I'd be happy to dig it out if anyone were >> interested. > > I would be *very* interested in seeing this, if you have time to dig it out. > It sounds like an excellent sight passage for my third-semester Latin > students, who are just now coming to terms with purpose, result, and > indirect command clauses! And I think they'd get a kick out of learning > that this was Latin from a wine label. > > TIA-- > > Elizabeth Vandiver > I second that request. It's little things like these that help liven up the classroom. S.L. -- Dr. Susann S. Lusnia Dept. of Classical Studies Tulane University Jones 210 6801 Freret St. New Orleans, LA 70118-5698 Tel. 504-862-3078 Fax 504-862-8736 Email: slusnia@tulane.edu .