Wednesday, September 18, 2013

And all flesh shall see it together ...

Those of you who experienced first-year Latin with me know that I sometimes manage to get intolerably confused when I'm tired. But that's no excuse for the fact that that wonderful chorus from Handel's Messiah (fourth number of the score: "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.") did not come screaming to mind when we read Isaiah 40:5 "et videbit omnis caro pariter" today and set me straight. And of course caro could not be accusative.  I know I didn't read it that way yesterday. So a big juicy mea culpa from me.

In case you haven't noticed, there is a link to the REED Anglo-Latin word book to the right under the useful links. You can download it as a single file for easy reference.