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It could be Textkit. I used White's First Greek book which I got from there and the forums to start me off on learning Greek before I went to university. It looks like the website has really been changed cosmetically since I last looked, however. Hopefully the substance is still there.

If that's an attempt at Latin, it failed. In Latin, virus is in the fourth declension and its plural is virus (yep, just like the singular), and NOT viri or virii.

You, too, fail at Latin: it's second declension. Didn't your Latin teacher ever tell you to look at the genitive to determine which declension it is?

Don't be misled by the fact that it's neuter: it's one of three 2nd-decl. -us nouns that are neuter (the others are pelagus and vulgus). Nouns of this type do not have plurals in Latin (see Allen & Greenough p. 22).

If you want to learn Latin, Textkit is the place to go. They have lots of out-of-copyright books to download for free, and helpful forums. I recommend "Latin for beginners" by Benjamin L. D'Ooge.

* (or viri, for that matter) *

yes you can be damn sure they're not men.

why pretend word wizardry when you don't have it...

bacteria and virii would be eliminated naturally.

Bacteria and... man would be eliminated naturally? Or did you mean viruses?

And what about "good" bacteria -- wouldn't those have been eliminated as well? Besides, there are plenty of dark, moist, warm places for bacteria to flourish, even if anything in direct sunlight died instantly.

Why do you have the nerve to add empty insults to your own weak arguments? Specifically, "libel" is printed words, "slander" is spoken words, and generally "defamation" is representation to damage a reputation. They differ in their media, and conmeasureately, their damage. That damage is the subject of legal remedy. Anonymous emails don't damage as much as a NY Times front page headline. Unless they somehow do, as proven in court of justice, in which case of course they're just as serious a crime. Since they don't, they're not.

BTW, smarty, it's spelled "libel". It's a lot easier to ignore your criticism when you obviously are such a weakminded reporter of your message (typical of Slashdot) - my point, exactly. You're welcome to learn a lot from these posts - caveat scriptor.

Funny you should mention that.

I just discovered this nifty site, which serves up free old Latin and Greek grammars and readers and a discussion forum where self-studiers can help each other out.

The teaching methods are ancient, but Latin and Greek are the original Grammar Nazi languages anyway, so that's part of the fun. Of course you're stuck with what the college assigns, but if you want a supplement, the Benjamin D'Ooge book they have on the site is pretty cool.

Latin grammar remains the same, but the method for teaching it in many American universities changes very quickly. American Latin teaching is very suceptive to fads, the majority of which turn out to be very effective and often negatively impact the education students involved. The method presented in the latest edition is wildly different than Wheelock's original method of the 50's.

If you don't like paying for a grammar, and can deal with the rote-learning method of a century ago, check out Textkit, a project which offers PDFs of some of the most respected Latin and Greek textbooks and readers which have now fallen into public domain. The Greek composition book and the selections from the Septuagint are superb.