Nova Horatia

Welcome To Nova Horatia

Salve, and welcome to this site. My real name need not be known, for here I am just Nova Horatia. I am a teenage Latin student who desires to honor the legacy left by the Roman greats.

For those of you who can't read Latin, let me start by providing you a translation and context for my tagline, "Ego Sum Nova Horatia -- Tu Es Flaccus." This means "I am the new Horatia (well Horatius, aka Horace, except I am a female) -- You are floppy." Let me be clear: I likely know not who you are and am (for once) not attempting mockery.
The poet Horace, whose works have inspired this alias and site, was actually called Quintus Horatius Flaccus. As any Latin nerd might tell you, ancient Roman men had three names: a praenomen, a nomen, and a cognomen. I ned not get into the full details (maybe I will in a different article). But a cognomen was essentially a nickname, and the aforementioned Horace's cognomen was Flaccus, and thus I am giving that nickname to you just as I gave a nickname to myself, especially since I know not your true identity.

Anyways, most of my articles will not be this wordy. Occasionally I might feel the need to share a lesson, and then I will. For the most part, here you will either see my own Horatian satire or I will share some of his own works, or details about him.

Vale (farewell),
Nova Horatia.

The Latest And Greatest Satire

AKA by your very own Nova Horatia

Why, Flacci, does society expect teens to act like adults
All while treating them like children,
And act confused when they choose to rebel?

It is truly a paradox of human standards.

Might we not be conditioned to be treated like adults
All while acting like the inner children we are?

Vale,
Nova Horatia.

Excerpt of Horace's Satires (Sermones)

The Opening Lines of Book I, Satire I

How come, Maecenas, no one alive’s ever content
With the lot he chose or the one fate threw in his way,
But praises those who pursue some alternative track?

A lesson on Roman Numberals

I feel like this one's pretty well known. But it's better to be safe than sorry, especially because they will pop up a lot here.
So if you don't know it, ancient Romans didn't say numbers as 1234567890. They used Roman Numerals. I don't want to rant about all of that so I'll only explain some parts. I think it's self explanatory, but there are 7 letters used: I, V, X, L, C, D, M. Put these on top of each other to make numbers. But sometimes you'll have a really big and clunky number if this was the only case. For example, under this logic alone, 9 would be IIIIIIIII. And that's just annoying to write and read. So sometimes you'll use a smaller value to subtract from the higher value. Therefore, 9 is actually IX. Here's a chart where you can see different numbers: