Quote Originally Posted by Cyclops View Post
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.