Croatian Latin literature Known by his contemporaries as the new Lucretius. Encouraged by this success, in Rome Stay began to expound Newtonian philosophy and scientific discoveries in verse. The finished poem, with more than 24,000 lines, was entitled "Ten Books of Philosophy in Verse" ("Philosophiae recentioris versibus traditae libri decem", 1755–1792). During the 19th century, Latin literature began to disappear throughout Europe, and in the 20th century (in spite of individual efforts) it almost completely disappeared. A Croatian Latinist of this period was Ton Smerdel (1904–1970), a classical philologist who has published seven books of Latin verse by modern neo-Latin poets. Croatian Latin
Pabitra Kumar Deka and Swarnalata Deka. His father was a government officer in the Agriculture Department. The family settled in Guwahati in the early 1960s. After his retirement from office, Mahendra Nath Deka started "M.N. Deka Films", a film distribution company, which released many Assamese and Bengali films in the sixties and seventies. Pabitra Kumar Deka, the eldest son, attended Nagaon Government High School and earned a degree in Commerce from Nowgong College. During his college days, he acted in and directed a number of one-act and full-length plays in Nagaon. In the one-act play competition held in Nagaon Natya Mandir in 1960,