June 25, 2012
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Latest discovery coming as a result of metro construction in Thessaloniki is a Roman road on top of the original Greek one … here’s the salient bits from AP via NPR: Archaeologists in Greece’s second-largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was city’s main travel…
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durance (Wordsmith) Latinitas: verb 2: respondeo , respondere, respondi, responsus => reply http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) June 25, 2012 vestis: clothes: noun. Example sentence:Vestis virum reddit.Translation:The clothes make the man. http://t.co/UMNTuedD — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) June 25, 2012
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ante diem vii kalendas quinctilias ludi Taurei quinquennales (day 1) — an obscure festival possibly in honour of the di inferi (read Bill Thayer’s note on the ‘quinquennales’ part) 107 A.D. — the emperor Trajan arrives in Rome and celebrates his second triumph over the Dacians
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The Edithorial: The Promethean Politics of Education.
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Tria Corda: Etruscan Beer.