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The Latin Right
I was alerted by a helpful Twitter friend to the fact that Thierry Baudet, the newly elected Dutch right-wing, anti-EU member of parliament, began his maiden speech in Latin. He started off, according to the transcript, with the words drawn from, and adapting, the opening of Cicero’s first speech against Catiline: Quousque tandem factionem cartellum …
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Author: Mary Beard
I was alerted by a helpful Twitter friend to the fact that Thierry Baudet, the newly elected Dutch right-wing, anti-EU member of parliament, began his maiden speech in Latin. He started off, according to the transcript, with the words drawn from, and adapting, the opening of Cicero’s first speech against Catiline: Quousque tandem factionem cartellum …