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“Me and little St. Augustine review flashcards after breakfast every day. He keeps saying he’ll ‘do it later,’ but I told him — the Lord wants you to conjugate NOW, not ‘later.’ That boy will be a great thinker someday… if he ever stops sneaking off to play in the garden.”

“I’ve been tutoring Roman youth for decades, and I must say — the timed quiz mode is genius. My student Marcus set a goal of beating his own score each week. He’s so competitive he challenged a senator’s son to a declension duel. I’m… going to allow it.”

“Jerome keeps translating the entire Bible into Latin and I’m over here just trying to remember what ‘mensa’ means. For younger kids, we put the declension endings to the tune of ‘Twinkle Twinkle.’ Jerome says that’s ‘theologically questionable’ but the kids love it.”

“My son won’t stop giving speeches at dinner. I asked him to pass the salt and he delivered a 20-minute oration on the history of sodium. But seriously — letting the kids ask the Latin tutor silly questions about Roman history as a reward after practice? Chef’s kiss. Or should I say, coqui osculum.”

“People ask me about my jewels and I point to my children. People ask me about my children’s Latin grades and I point to Via Latina. Don’t skip the grammar drills! My daughter went from ‘what’s a dative?’ to correcting her father’s case endings at the Forum.”

“Cato ends EVERY conversation with ‘Carthago delenda est.’ At the market. At dinner parties. At his kid’s birthday. But his tip about doing a family ‘Latin word of the day’ at dinner? Actually brilliant. Even the 5-year-old joins in. Just don’t get him started on Carthage.”