February 1, 2013
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From the Leader: WORK at a major building development has unearthed evidence of a Roman settlement. The discovery at Anwyl Construction’s Croes Atti project at Oakenholt, near Flint, includes a well-preserved section of Roman road, pottery, buildings and evidence of an industrial complex processing lead and silver mined at nearby Halkyn Mountain. Andy Davies, Anwyl…
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From Hurriyet: The İzmir Metropolitan Municipality has started demolitions on appropriated land in order to unearth a Roman theater under shanty houses in the city’s Kadifekale district. The municipality has so far paid 8 million Turkish Liras for the confiscation of the nearly 13,000-square-meter area. Eight of the 52 houses to be demolished in the…
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Well, this is different … as far as I recall, this is the first time we moderns followed the ancients on this one. The Sun Times seems to have the best coverage … here’s the last half or so: […] Former assistant U.S. attorney Patrick Collins again teamed up with Fitzgerald to do battle with…
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From the mailbag: I am writing, in order to draw your attention to a new electronic journal, dedicated to Classical Studies and the Ancient Mediterranean World. The journal is named “Electryone” and it is hosted by the University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece. You can visit it at http://www.electryone.gr … it appears that the first…
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atavistic (Dictionary.com) amortize (Merriam-Webster) onomastics (Wordsmith) albescent (OED) cricetine (Wordnik … now people will think the Romans had hamsters) Latinitweets: adjective: parvus , parva, parvum => small http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) February 1, 2013 melior: better: adjective. Example sentence:Melius est flecti quam frangi.Translation:It is better to bend than … http://t.co/4g4GYPRi — Latin…
rogue classicism 