October 27, 2012

  • Interesting opEd by Natalie Haynes in the Independent: Fall of a Roman emperor: how the conviction of Silvio Berlusconi repeats the pattern of history

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  • Last week or so we mentioned the media flurry about the discovery of the purported site of Caesar’s assassination (Site of Caesar’s Assassination Found?) … those reports were generated by one of the archaeologists working at the Largo Argentina site (Antonio Monterroso) … now fellow archaeologist Marina Mattei is saying ‘not so fast …

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  • As you might be aware, a couple days ago Darius Arya hosted another Latin Tweetup and although I wasn’t able to participate myself, I thought it might be fun to Storify the event: Storifying the Latin Tweetup/Pipiatio Latina … for the record, I did edit a bit, taking out some posts which were more technical…

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  • Tip o’ the pileus to Atticus Cox who found this on the Uncyclopedia: Source (the top-selling board game of the 5th century B.C.E. …)

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  • Classical Words of the Day

    teratoid (Dictionary.com) malison (Merriam-Webster) Latinitweets: adverb: subito , indeclinable => suddenly http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) October 27, 2012 nihil: nothing: noun. Example sentence:Nihil me terret.Translation:Nothing terrifies me. http://t.co/5KiLJgP6 — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) October 27, 2012

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