May 12, 2012
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Excerpt from Gillian Clark’s column in the Huffington Post: […] When I started college, I figured I had enough cynicism to make it on my own. I was told that Patrick Henry jumped through a window down to a waiting horse after presenting his liberty vs. death ultimatum. And no, that is not pepper on…
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Interesting item from a piece on Woody Guthrie, inter alia: [The ancient Roman poet] Virgil could sit and speak in iambic pentameter, like a modern rap artist. Woody could do the same thing. He could speak in poetry.” via: David Lutken conjures up Woody Guthrie I’ve never heard that about Vergil before … anyone know…
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recalcitrant (Merriam Webster) prorogue (Dictonary.com) unavailing (Wordsmith) olfactory (OED) … and on the Latin side: paupertas (Transparent Language) … and dead guys tweeting: https://twitter.com/#!/LiddellandScott/status/200962169624477698 https://twitter.com/#!/LewisandShort/status/200975102928617472
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ante diem iv idus maias 19 B.C. (?) — dedication of the Temple of Mars Ultor on the Capitoline 2 B.C. — opening of the Forum of Augustus 113 A.D. — opening of the restored Temple of Venus Genetrix 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Dionysius and Pancras at Rome
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res gerendae: Classical Kitsch: The Inescapable Naffness of the Olympic Torch.
rogue classicism 