Classical Words of the Day
damask (Merriam Webster)
demiurge (Dictionary.com)
rugose (OED)
maleficiate (Worthless Word for the Day)
… from the Latin Twitterverse:
mori: to die: verb. Example sentence:Quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur.Translation:Whom the gods love dies young. bit.ly/Lqyq7C—
Latin Language (@latinlanguage) May 24, 2012
cōs, cōtis, f.
Sanscr. ça, to whet, sharpen; cf. cautes, any hard stone, flintstone—
Charlton T. Lewis (@LewisandShort) May 24, 2012
… and on the Greek side:
μητίομαι metíomai
μητίομαι, (μῆτις) Pi.P.2.92 (s.v.l.): fut. -ίσομαι: aor. ἐμητισάμην: — = μητιάω 11, devise, contrive—
Henry George Liddell (@LiddellandScott) May 24, 2012
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas junias
Quando Rex Comitavit Fas — the rex sacrorum had to perform some sort of ceremony before the day’s legal business could be conducted (possibly connected to the idea of Regifugium)
15 B.C. — birth of the emperor-to-be-who-never-was Germanicus (brother of the emperor Claudius)
299 A.D. — martyrdom of Donatian and Rogatian

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