May 10, 2013
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Interesting item first appearing in English at Science Daily: The so-called Elephant’s Tomb in the Roman necropolis of Carmona (Seville, Spain) was not always used for burials. The original structure of the building and a window through which the sun shines directly in the equinoxes suggest that it was a temple of Mithraism, an unofficial…
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A somewhat rambling item from World Bulletin: Excavations in a field in Milas, a district of the southwestern province of Mugla, has uncovered mosaic tiles belonging to the Roman era. The excavations began after the Milas Gendarmerie Command raided a store in Milas upon a tip-off and found five Roman-era pots there. Also, three unregistered…
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A review from the TLS of a couple new studies (I don’t think they’re quite biographies) of that guy who keeps coming up in Classics departments every now and then: The pleasures of Dr Johnson (TLS)
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ante diem vi idus maias 214 (?) A.D. — birth of the future emperor Claudius II Gothicus 232 A.D. — martyrdom of Felix and Palmatius 238 A.D. — murder of Maximinus Thrax (by one reckoning) 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Epimachus at Alexandria 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Alphius, Philadelphus, Cyrinus, and Benedicta at Leontini…
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aeolian (Dictionary.com) rosarian (Wordnik) Linguatweets: illacrimare: to weep over, to lament: verb. Example sentence:Legens Platonem morti Socratis semper illacrimo.T… http://t.co/9to6Q35M1t — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) May 10, 2013 pronoun: tuus , tua, tuum => your (singular), yours http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) May 10, 2013 jūgĕrum, i, n. —an acre, or rather juger of…
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