Random Droppings

I do want to learn Latin and Greek, though, and have professional reasons for doing so. Certainly, I'd like to do some work on classical European thought in my old age. (Curiously, I just learned that a headmaster of a school to which I went -- long before I went there, I should add* -- was an authority on Cicero. He (the headmaster, that is, not Marcus Tullius) had as one of his perquisites the right to pasture his cattle on school land.

* His editions of Cicero were published in the 1880s.