March 2009
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A column on Frank Lampard in Wales Online includes the following in medias res: The former Swansea City player is also famously proud of the A* he bagged in his Latin GCSE. There’s nothing on record to suggest what sort of shape his Ancient Greek is in though. A lot of men are proud of…
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ante diem vi idus martias Festival of Mars (day 10) … 241 B.C. — Romans are victorious against the Carthaginians in the naval battle of Aegusa, bringing the First Punic War to an end 15 A.D. — Tiberius becomes pontifex maximus ca. 172 A.D. — martyrdom of Alexander in Phrygia ca. 258 A.D. — martyrdom…
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subintelligitur (Wordsmith … great word) pedestrian (Dictionary.com) crepuscular (Merriam-Webster) cliosophic (Worthless Word for the Day)
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Explorator readers are filling my box with a story about a recently rediscovered lifetime portrait of Bill Shakespeare, with the authenticity impinging on the inscription you see at the top, to wit, principum amicitias. Savvy rogueclassicism readers will recognize the line as an excerpt from Horace, Ode 2.1.4, which is addressed to Asinius Pollio. Here’s…
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ante diem vii idus martias Festival of Mars (day 9) which included another procession of the Salian priests around the city 320 A.D. — martyrdom of Candidus and the other “Forty Armenian Martyrs”
rogue classicism 