September 26, 2012

  • So last night my spiders drag bag something from Fox News, which originally came from LiveScience. Given all the Gospel of Jesus hype of late, I was immediately skeptical as it was making claims about a translation of a papyrus and, well, had been picked up by Fox, which doesn’t exactly have a great track…

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  • A few developments since our last post on the subject (The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife ~ A Rogueclassicist Perspective): Mark Goodacre has augmented Francis Watson’s culled-from-Thomas suggestion by demonstrating that the final line was also from Thomas untimely ripped: Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: the last line is also from Thomas Currently burning through the blogosphere…

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  • Classical Words of the Day

    ameliorate (Wordsmith) lexiphanicism (Wordnik) Latinitweets: pronoun: idem , eadem, idem => the same http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) September 26, 2012 feliciter: happily: adverb. Example sentence:Omnes sapientes feliciter, perfecte, fortunate vivunt.Translation:A… http://t.co/tU1dWqmk — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) September 26, 2012

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  • ante diem vi kalendas octobres 46 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Venus Genetrix (and associated rites thereafter) 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Cosmas and Damian 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Cyprian 1687 — a Venetian mortar ignites a store of Turkish gunpowder being stored in the Parthenon, causing much damage.

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  • Laudator Temporis Acti: Dum Fata Sinunt, Vivite Laeti.

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