Completely random note on Seneca's Medea

[lesbiassparrow]

This play has what I believe is the best closing line ever.  Jason says it to Medea as she flies off on her chariot with the bodies of their two sons, whom she has just killed in front of him.

testare nullos esse, qua veheris, deos

bear witness where you travel that there are no gods

And people say Seneca couldn't write tragedy.

Of course, I'm just posting because I don't want to do the work I should be doing.  Back now to trying to cobble together an argument for my paper.

Comments

[aikakone.livejournal.com]

You could read the Lee/Laura story I posted in my journal earlier today. *poke*

I'm getting good at bothering you. Pretty soon you're going to be asking me to stop. I know it.

By the way, this is my favorite Latin phrase. But it's funny:

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

Also known in English as: I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.

Grabbed from this site.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I need to work more of those into my daily life.

BTW, there's also this useful phrase:

Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant (may conspirators kill you in the forum)

Useful in many situations.

[aikakone.livejournal.com]

You're familiar with Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck jokes, right?

Back during my first year of teaching I stumbled upon a site that said "You know you're a musician if..."

One of the requirements there was "...you can freely translate anything in Latin and you've never had a class in the language."

I about bust a gut laughing because it was so true. That's how it is, too. Sometimes the funniest things are the truest things.

[ehab-it.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I can I have that embroidered on my luggage?

[ehab-it.livejournal.com]

And by luggage I mean my one beat-up rollerbag.

[meret.livejournal.com]

I've never believed Medea actually killed her kids. She was one of the smartest people in all of greek mythology. I think she served her husband some animal, and made him think it was his children he ate. Then she took off with them.