Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the “I guess he’ll have to do” emperor who came after Aurelian:

• #38 Tacitus: Emperors of Rome

• euthanize October 17, 2011 (Wordsmith)
• riparian, adj.1 and n.1 October 17, 2011 Oxford English Dictionary
• Aesopian October 17, 2011 (Merriam-Webster)
• dorsal: Dictionary.com Word of the Day October 17, 2011 (Dictionary.com)
• regurgitate October 15, 2011 (Merriam-Webster)

Some good things were happening in the blogosphere while my football picks went awry:

• Whodunit? The Murder of Philip II of Macedon October 16, 2011 History of the Ancient World
• ‘Reading’ Greek Vases October 16, 2011 History of the Ancient World
• Round-Up: October 16 October 16, 2011 (Laura Gibbs)
• Birth of an Eminent Historian and Philologist October 16, 2011 (N.S. Gill)
• Luxury in Ancient Rome: Scope, Timing and Enforcement of Sumptuary Laws October 16, 2011 History of the Ancient World
• explorator 14.26 October 16, 2011 david meadows
• Etruscan Book of Thunder October 16, 2011 Caroline Lawrence
• Open Access Journal: Teiresias October 16, 2011 Charles Ellwood Jones