For your Monday enjoyment … go to the Youtube site for the Latin lyrics:

A somewhat quiet weekend (or I possibly missed things because I was doing a pile of techno-tweaking on devices):

• 10/7/11 PHD comic: ‘Trouble vs. Length’ October 9, 2011 
• Rome wasn’t built in a day October 9, 2011 jm
• explorator 14.25 October 9, 2011 david meadows
• Chelmsford 123: Odi et Amo October 9, 2011 noreply@blogger.com (Juliette)
• The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great? October 9, 2011 History of the Ancient World
• Persian and the Late Roman Empire (284-651): Balance of Power and Spheres of Influence Stability in Asia Minor October 9, 2011 History of the Ancient World
• How Are You? October 9, 2011 Michael Gilleland
• APA Blog : Call for APA Scholars to Participate in Aquila Theatre Program October 7, 2011 
• Gastrophobia – Unbearable. October 8, 2011 
• Alexander: How Great? by Mary Beard | The New York Review of Books October 8, 2011 Charles Halton

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ante diem vi idus octobres

• rites in honour of Juno Moneta — apparently commemorating a restoration of the temple vowed by M. Furius Camillus in 345 B.C.; the epithet ‘moneta’ possible recognized Juno’s role in goading the sacred geese to wake everyone up during the Gallic sack of Rome
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 6 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
• 19 A.D. — Germanicus, the adopted son of the emperor Tiberius, dies under mysterious circumstances in Daphne near Antioch