October 11, 2012
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So asks the Ask History (TM) thing (yes, they’ve trademarked that) at the History Channel and they give a really ambiguous answer. After citing Dio and Suetonius, here’s how their first paragraph ends: But did he really plan to make Incitatus a consul and only fail to do so because his assassination happened first, as…
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litotes (Dictionary.com) rectitude (Merriam Webster) historiated (OED) sapidity (Wordnik) Latinitweets: verb 2: video , videre, vidi, visus => see http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) October 11, 2012 genus: kind, sort: noun. Example sentence:Illa femina omnia genera artium bonarum intellexit.Translation:That wo… http://t.co/isdq4krK — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) October 11, 2012
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ante diem v idus octobres Meditrinalia — a somewhat obscure festival in terms of origins which involved tasting old wine and new wine, apparently with the goal of being cured of diseases old and new. ludi Augustales scaenici (day 7 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)304 A.D. — martyrdom of Tharacus
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Bestiaria Latina Blog: October 11: Proverbial Lolcat.
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History of the Ancient World: Death in ancient times.
rogue classicism 