We don need no educashun....?

[Cyclops]

Not Virgil's Aeneid Book 5 by any chance ?

All I remember is Charon, the boatman on the River Styx.
Now Julius Caesar, I could cope with.
The only benefit I've had from this is when using Latin botanical names.
I gave up Latin when the master conjugated the Latin word for Republic. Those who know me, and can conjugate that word, will get the joke (on me)

[Enoch Mort]

All I remember is Charon, the boatman on the River Styx.
Now Julius Caesar, I could cope with.
The only benefit I've had from this is when using Latin botanical names.
I gave up Latin when the master conjugated the Latin word for Republic. Those who know me, and can conjugate that word, will get the joke (on me)

Charon crops up in book 6 of the Aeneid. I did Caesar's De Bello Gallico as well. I think you mean declined, verbs are conjugated. I can still remember how to decline Res Publica as so much learning by rote was involved in Latin that it is drilled into my skull even after all these years.

[Cyclops]

Charon crops up in book 6 of the Aeneid. I did Caesar's De Bello Gallico as well. I think you mean declined, verbs are conjugated. I can still remember how to decline Res Publica as so much learning by rote was involved in Latin that it is drilled into my skull even after all these years.

It was the third person singular bit that brought a smirk to the master's face, and a titter from the lads when he told me to stand and decline res publica....