October 26, 2012
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Nice little video report on an exhibition at the Capitoline Museums:
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This is really on the periphery of our purview, but is really interesting:
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I’m sure Owen Jarus’ latest piece for LiveScience will get plenty of play this weekend … they’ll probably alter the headline, though: Penis-Shaped Bone & Lover’s Bust Among Trove of Roman Art (LiveScience) … on a semi-related note, the old folks used to have an expression which went something like “it doesn’t play in Peoria”…
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immure (Merriam Webster) reliquary (OED) satanophany (Wordnik) Latinitweets: adverb: quam , indeclinable => than http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) October 26, 2012 vitare: to avoid: verb. Example sentence:Debemus iram vitare.Translation:We ought to avoid anger. http://t.co/rtHKu4Oo — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) October 26, 2012
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ante diem vii kalendas novembres ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 1) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C. 1656 B.C. — Noah enters the ark (this must be Bishop Ussher again) 31 A.D. — suicide of Apicata, wife of the disgraced Praetorian Praefect Sejanus ca 250 A.D.…
rogue classicism 