A very nice video report from Rome Reports:

… amazing … need more reports like this.

ante diem xvii kalendas quinctilias

• Quinquatrus minusculae (day 3 of a five-day festival honouring the birthday (maybe) of Minerva )
• Quando stercus delatus fas (“When the ‘trash’ is taken out”) and the Temple of Vesta is closed to the public
• 302 A.D. — martyrdom of Hesychius
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Vitus (and companions)

The incipit of a potentially-disturbing item from CNN:

NATO refused to say Tuesday whether or not it would bomb ancient Roman ruins in Libya if it knew Moammar Gadhafi was hiding military equipment there.

“We will strike military vehicles, military forces, military equipment or military infrastructure that threaten Libyan civilians as necessary,” a NATO official in Naples told CNN, declining to give his name in discussing internal NATO deliberations.

But he said the alliance could not verify rebel claims that Libya’s leader may be hiding rocket launchers at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Leptis Magna, a historic Roman city between the capital Tripoli and rebel-held Misrata. […]

• via NATO refuses to rule out bombing Libya Roman ruins – CNN.com.