Terry Jeffrey
Posted: Sep 18, 2019
The always-amiable Father Andrew Gilligan, who for many years taught Latin at St. Ignatius High School in San Francisco, wanted his students to remember some of the great passages from Virgil's "The Aeneid" long after they had forgotten the arcane rules of Latin grammar.
So, he gave us some to memorize.
One was: "Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."
His colloquial translation of this was: "Someday you may look back on even these things and laugh."
That is what Aeneas told his men after they sailed through a horrendous storm...........To Read More....
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