Why you check your sources

The sentence in the NPR article reads: “The Romans and then the Christian Church hijacked Samhain and grafted on their own celebrations…” but the article cited says, “When the Romans conquered the Celtic lands… they both assimilated and added to ancient Celtic Samhain symbols and rituals. For example, the festival of Pomona, which celebrated the Roman Goddess of the harvest Pomona (or Pomorum) on November 1st, contributed the feast of nuts and fruits to Samhain’s own autumn celebrations.”

Uh.  Last I checked, ‘hijack’ and ‘assimilate’ were not synonyms. 

Check your sources people.

Make your own tomb--Latin 1

Apologies, I forgot to post this yesterday.  Your modern Roman-style tomb must include these four elements:

• Urn or ossuary?
• Size, shape?
• Offering spot--Little table, hole, etc.
• Epitaph--Remembrance and request

Due this Friday, 1 November

Manus, manus (fourth declension feminine noun)

"hand"

•Manufacture (+ facio, facere, feci, factus—to make or to do)

–To make (by hand)

•Manifest

–Obvious, at hand, plain

•Manuscript (+ scribo, scribere, scripsi, scriptus--to write)

–A handwritten document

•Manumit (+ mitto, mittere, misi, missus)

–To send forth or release from one’s grasp (i.e a slave)

•Manual

–To operate by hand or the guide explaining how to operate

Iungo, iungere, iunxi, iunctus (third conj. verb)

“to join,” “to unite” or “to connect”

•Join

–To connect or fasten

•Joint

–A point of connection between two parts

•Conjugation

–A group of verbs or connecting verb stems to endings

•Conjunction

–A word joining two clauses of a sentence

•Disjointed (+ prefix dis- “apart” or “separate”)

–Unconnected

•Junction

–A connection or crossing

•Subjugate (+ preposition sub “under”)

–To join under duress or by force

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Iacio, iacere, ieci, iactus—“to throw” (third conj. verb)

•Eject (+ preposition e, ex “out”)

–To throw out

•Interject (+ preposition inter “between”)

–To throw between

•Object (+ preposition ob “against”)

–To throw against or oppose

•Project (+ preposition pro “in front of”)

–To throw ahead or forward

•Projectile

–Something thrown forward (i.e. an arrow, rock or bullet)

•Reject (+ prefix re “back” or “again”)

–To throw back

Pono, ponere, posui, positum—“to lay, to put, to place” (third conj. verb)

•Pose

–A position or attitude

•Post

–Fixed or established place (i.e. a military post)

•Postage

–Payment for messages sent from post to post

•Position

–An established place

•Deposit —(+ preposition de “down from” or “about”)

–To lay away, put down or put aside

•Repose—(+ prefix re “back” or “again”)

–To lie back, pause or rest

•Depose—(+ preposition de “down from” or “about”)

–To cast from office or throne

•Impose—(+ preposition in “in,” “on,” “into, “onto” or “upon”)

–To put upon

•Compose—(+ preposition cum “with” or “together”)

–To put together

•Postpone—(+ preposition post “after” or “behind”)

–To delay or put after

Cum—“with” or “together” (prep. + abl. & adv.)

•Cooperate (+ opero, operare, operavi, operatus “to work)

–To work together

•Cognate (+ nascor, nasci, natus sum “to be born”)

–Born together, indicates a relationship or shared ancestry

•Collaborate (+ laboro, laborare, laboravi, laboratus “to labor”)

–To work together or to work with

•Collect (+ lego, legere, legi, lectus “to read” or “to gather”)

–To gather together

•Combat (+ battuo, battuere —-, —- “to beat” or “to pound” “to fence”)

–To fight with

•Commemorate (+ memoro, memorare, memoravi, memoratus “to remember”)

–To remember something together

•Community (+ munio, munire, munivi, munitus “to fortify” or “to strengthen”

–A group which builds together

•Content (+ teneo, tenere, tenui, tentum “to hold,” “to keep” or “to comprehend”)

–Held together

•Confection (+ facio, facere, feci, factum “to make” or “to do”)

–Made together

•Committee (+ mitto, mittere, misi, missus “to send”)

–A group sent (together) to accomplish something