January 16, 2013
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My spiders brought back this video from Youtube showing (rather hastily in spots) what the various monuments of Rome were like before Mussolini et al started digging … kind of interesting from a ‘see how far we’ve come’ point of view:
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Sorry about that headline; there’s some sort of pun trying to get out of there … from the Weston Mercury: A RARE Roman figurine, believed to be almost 2,000 years old, has been found in North Somerset. The ‘exceptional solid bronze’ Capricorn statue was found in Burrington using a metal detector and is being transferred…
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This was mentioned in the Classics International group … amazing interactive timeline: History and Literature of Ancient Rome
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The incipit of a piece from LiveScience … I don’t think this was part of the AIA/APA thing: The civilization made famous by the myth of the Minotaur was as warlike as their bull-headed mascot, new research suggests. The ancient people of Crete, also known as Minoan, were once thought to be a bunch of…
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seminal (Wordsmith) galactometer (OED) pendragon (Wordnik … sorta, kinda) Latinitweets: pronoun: qui , quae, quod => who, which http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) January 16, 2013 sapiens: wise person: noun. Example sentence:Dictum sapienti sat est. Translation:A word to a wise person is suf… http://t.co/3Py8LefR — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) January 16, 2013
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