Origins

The London Latin Circle was founded by A. Grátius Avítus soon after he attended Reginald Foster's Æstíva Rómæ Latínitás and the Séminárium Matriténse of the Societás Latína Sarávipontána in the summer of 1998. Burning with love for living Latinity he decided to summon other people with an interest in the Latin language with which he could regularly speak in Latin also in London.

During many years the London Latin Circle was only frequented by Avítus himself, a classical philologist, and Simon and Jeremy, two polymath lawyers, sometimes visiting also Jonathan, a university professor. Little by little however the London Latin Circle started to grow. It first enjoyed the new presence of Cordus, a historian, and Astur, an engineer, as well as that later on of James, a classical philologist, and Canicus, a Latin language teacher. We are therefore now five regular fellows, although others on top of that visit us sometimes.