February 8, 2013
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posted with permission: Caesar’s De Analogia: Edition, Translation, and Commentary. By Alessandro Garcea. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 304. Hardcover, £70.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-960397-8. Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel, Columbia University When one thinks of Julius Caesar, what comes to mind immediately is the politician/dictator/god, or perhaps the author…
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Latest headlines: Nuntii Latini Septimanales 8.2.2013
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Latest from Melvyn Bragg and the In Our Time folks: Epicureanism … something to listen to while digging out …
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impudent (Wordsmith) paraselene (Wordnik) Latinitweets: noun 1: patria , patriae, f => country, homeland http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) February 8, 2013 lĭgŭla and lingŭla, ae, f. dim. from lingua: a little tongue The tongue of a shoe. A spoon or ladle for skimming a pot. A sword. — Charlton T. Lewis (@LewisandShort)…
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ante diem vi idus februarias 293 B.C. — dedication of a Temple of Quirinus by Papirius Cursor (the temple having been vowed/begun by his similarly-named dictator father) which had a sundial associated with it somehow 291 B.C. — possible date for the arrival of the cult of Aesculapius at Rome 1827 — Death of William…
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