Category: Fleming

The second book of The Confessions is perhaps the best known, because it has given us the mythical story of a terribly dissolute young man who eventually overcame his carnal temptations.

Let us prioritize our learning.  The most important part of the lesson is the grammar, the least important is the reading.  This week we can cut back the reading to about five pages.  In addition, instead of trying to learn all the vocabulary, I’ll select the most important.

Uses of the subjunctive, a compound verb or two. 10 more pages. Feedback requested before proceeding further

The title is ambiguous.  In ordinary classical Latin, confiteor means something like to acknowledge and error and/or  concede a point as true.  Ecclesiastical writers used it to mean something like “profess the faith.”  Augustine, always the rhetorician–no matter how he strove to distance himself from his secular profession, plays upon both senses.

A Lexicon of words and expressions to eliminate from your vocabulary