October 30, 2012

  • Tip o’ the pileus to Robert Cargill who alerted us to a post at The Quaternion (A Coptic New Testament Papyrus Fragment (Galatians 2) For Sale on eBay) which really has nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife, but does, as the title suggests it might, presents a photo of a fragment of…

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  • A few days ago we mentioned in passing a brief kerfuffle over advertising of the Aphrodite and the Gods of Love exhibition currently at the San Antonio Museum of Art. The fine folks at SAMA sent me a copy of the ad and here it is: Full story of the kerfuffle at the Rivard Report:…

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  • This … is … freaking … awesome:

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  • Classical Words of the Day

    bidentate (Wordsmith) Latinitweets: verb 3: conficio , conficere, confeci, confectus => finish, wear out http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) October 30, 2012 labor: work, toil, labor: noun. Example sentence:Nihil sine magno labore vita mortalibus dat.Translation:Life gi… http://t.co/fyTt6MQA — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) October 30, 2012

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  • ante diem tertium kalendas novembres 69 A.D. — sack of Cremona 130 A.D. — Hadrian’s pal Antinous drowns in the Nile c. 298 — martyrdom of Marcellus the centurion

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