When the Symposion is drawing to a close, here a few thoughts, half-serious, about another form of "recycled" Classical Learning: the use of Latin or Latin sentences, (if new coined and very personal, all the better), for all kinds of private purposes.
You may very well not have encountered the phenomena very often, but in my country (European) it is a clearly visible trend, while at the same time the "Real Thing", Classic studies have almost totally disappeared from high school and live on precariously at the University. It was exactly a young university teacher who told that their E-mail box every day is brimming with "vernacular" sentences, personal mottoes and phrases, more or less impossible, to be translated into Latin. (Be service- minded!) How do you say in Latin for instance "BY MY SIDE"to be engraved into a ring? And among a couple of more reasonable usages ( but why Latin??) there is also quite a number of really bizarre destinations, pet memorials, tattoos, a lot of tattoos..

Ugh! The Latin language reduced to a plaything or some kind of magic formula... Praeterea censeo that no serious Latin scholar should ever concern himself with things like that. A killjoy attitude???

A HAPPY EASTER