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May 13, 2008
Sancta Sedes
The Vatican kicks it old school at Sancta Sedes.
The Roman Catholic Church, reflecting the love of Latin by Pope Benedict XVI, has opened a Web site at the Vatican written in the church's ancient language.
The Vatican's official Web site began featuring a new Latin section called Sancta Sedes (or Holy See) this week, giving the church its first Latin language online presence, the BBC reported. The Latin page takes its place alongside existing Vatican Web pages in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
The Vatican's official Web site began featuring a new Latin section called Sancta Sedes (or Holy See) this week, giving the church its first Latin language online presence, the BBC reported. The Latin page takes its place alongside existing Vatican Web pages in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
See also: The Sancta Sedes entry at internet reference of maximum awesomosity, Vicipaedia Latina. In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulum cum internetum.*
* May not have my agreements quite right. I am stuck with "library" in the original and am adding "internet" a la the presumably non-canonical (ahem) Latinitas Recens. The neologism does not appear in this otherwise handy reference to the Lexicon Recentis Latinitas. According to the BBC, a hard copy of the dictionary of official Latin neologisms retails for €100; will budget for a copy...
In their day, Rome's rulers might have benefited from a "telephonium albo televisifico coniunctum" - or video telephone - to stay in touch with distant parts of the empire. Credited with building the world's first roads, the Roman creation has become the bane of the modern motorist's life in what the dictionary calls "tempus maximae frequentiae" - or rush hour.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 13, 2008 06:27 AM
