February 2011
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ante diem iii nonas februarias 316 a.d. — martyrdom of St. Blaise 1995 — death of John Pinsent (classicist and founder of Liverpool Classical Monthly)
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ante diem iv nonas februarias 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Apronian the Executioner at Ancona … it’s Candlemas Day … And for all you Latin teachers out there … you can present this Latin ‘distich’ quoted by Thomas Browne in Robert Chambers Book of Days (the quoting of) which predates Punxsutawney Phil (and Wiarton Willy,…
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John McMahon just posted this to the Classics list … the salient excerpt: Thornton described as “upbeat” and “very positive” the mood on the campus on Monday, as news of the changes spread. But that mood was far from universal, particularly in disciplines that saw their majors eliminated. “We’ve been relegated to second- or third-class…
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Image via Wikipedia kalendae februariae Rites in honour of Juno Sospita: Juno Sospita was originally worshipped in Lanuvium, where she seems to have had started out as a fertility goddess of some sort and evolved into a warrior protectrix of the city. When Lanuvium was granted Roman citizenship in 338 B.C., the cult was also…
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