June 14, 2012
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From the Herald: DAVID Ridgway, who has died aged 74, was the English-speaking world’s leading expert on how the ancient Greeks colonised the Mediterranean almost 3000 years ago. He passed on that knowledge during a 35-year career as lecturer, then reader in archaeology and finally reader in classics, at Edinburgh University. He and his Sardinian-born…
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exculpate (Wordsmith) imponderable (Dictionary.com) Latinitweet: vanitas: vanity, emptiness, aimlessness: noun. Example sentence:Vanitas vanitatum, omnis vanitas. Translation:Va… http://t.co/1qEqV31a — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) June 14, 2012
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ante diem xviii kalendas quinctilias Quinquatrus minusculae (day 2) — a five-day festival honouring the birthday (maybe) of Minerva 287 — martyrdom of Rufinus
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About.com Ancient / Classical History: Lesser Quinquatrus.
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Laudator Temporis Acti: Saintsbury on Greek.
rogue classicism 