Pauci sciunt “Baediolanum” esse nomen conclavis scholastici Magistri Viatoris. Ortum est a nomine monachi mediaevalis Baedae (aut “Bedae”—Anglice “Bede”) et a "Mediolano," nomine Romano urbis septentrionalis Italiani.
Unbeknownst to many, “Baediolanum” is the name of Mr. Bailey’s classroom at Pacifica. It is based on the name of the medieval monk Baeda (also spelled “Beda”—“Bede” in English) and "Mediolanum," the Roman name for the northern Italian city Milan.
To figure out why Baeda is the namesake of Mr. Bailey’s room, start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede
For Mediolanum, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediolanum
Leave a comment with your observations about the connection between these and Mr. Bailey, his room, and his classes! There may be a prize for whoever figures out the best connections—there will certainly be glory!
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This really has nothing to do with anything, but this morning I was at a restaurant and the placemats had maps of Italy on them and there were pictures of a bunch of places, and one of them was Milan, and I was like, "Hey!"
ReplyDeleteAnd earlier this morning I was touring a college in Upstate New York, and my mom and I found this library in the classics department full of books all in LATIN! and Greek. And it was really cool.
And last week I was at a cemetery in Boston and this one tombstone was all in Latin and it was this realllllly long thing about this guy who was a medicus from Brittania and his uxor.
Latin is everywhere!!
So at the Latin Program last week one day we were playing a game where the teacher would say the name of a city, river, mountain, or country in Latin and we had to name it in English, or visa versa. One of the ones he said was "Mediolanum," and I was like, "Oh! It's Milan!" and my team got a point :D
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