1. If you remember Hermogenes, and his honesty
2. If you remember ancilla Grumionem delectat
3. If you’ve ever been to Certamen, Conference, or a movie night.
4. If you know the sex cheer.
5. If you’ve ever played slappy, many a slip or a verba just to get that sweet sweet racial harmony cookie.
6. If you know the awesomeness of multus sanguis fluit.

Then this is the club for you.

Classics is all about blood, gore and good old-fashioned violence ; classics is all about the fact that Latin has a dozen words meaning ‘to kill’ ; classics is all about walking around carrying a really, really cool sword.

Latin was the language spoken by the ancient Romans two thousand years ago. Why, then, study it today? Because Latin is the key to many aspects of the modern world. It helps us:

• to understand more English words and spell them correctly;
• to succeed in many careers involving technical language;
• to learn French, Italian, and Spanish;
• to find out about the origins of our civilization;
• and to make more sense of the world today.