2. We had a small group of students preparing to attend the University of Memphis Language Fair on April 4. This event has been cancelled.
3. We had a much larger group - 53 Upper School and Lower School students - registered for the Tennessee Junior Classical League State Convention at the end of April. Unfortunately, this event has also been cancelled.
4. In the coming weeks, we hope to receive the results from some other contests, including the CAMWS Latin Translation Contest and the National Latin Exam.
Stay healthy, everyone. And remember these inspirational words from Book One of Vergil's Aeneid:
'O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum—
O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.
Vos et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantis
accestis scopulos, vos et Cyclopea saxa
experti: revocate animos, maestumque timorem
mittite: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum
tendimus in Latium; sedes ubi fata quietas
ostendunt; illic fas regna resurgere Troiae.
Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.'
‘O friends (well, we were not unknown to trouble before)
O you who’ve endured worse, the god will grant an end to this too.
You’ve faced rabid Scylla, and her deep-sounding cliffs:
and you’ve experienced the Cyclopes’s rocks:
remember your courage and chase away gloomy fears:
perhaps one day you’ll even delight in remembering this.
Through all these misfortunes, these dangerous times,
we head for Latium, where the fates hold peaceful lives
for us: there Troy’s kingdom can rise again. Endure,
and preserve yourselves for happier days.’
