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

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

A travel writer’s obsession with Sibyls takes her to Delphi:

• Delphi, Greece: In Search of Sibyls (San Diego Reader)

… nice to see she seems to know the Sibyl and Pythia weren’t the same person …

Never saw the TW depicted via a Bridge game … from the Inquirer:

The Trojan War having dragged on for 10 years, with neither side gaining an advantage, the weary Greeks and Trojans resolved to settle their conflict at the bridge table.

In today’s deal, Hector became declarer at four hearts for the Trojan forces after Ajax, the Greek East, had bid spades. The wily Odysseus, West, led a spade, and Ajax took the king and ace and, unable to attack the diamonds effectively, continued with the ten of spades. When Hector followed suit, Odysseus paused – and generously discarded the deuce of diamonds!

“I fear the Greeks even when they bear gifts,” Hector muttered – and instead of ruffing in dummy, he also discarded a diamond.

If West ruffs the third spade in front of dummy, South has no choice but to make his game. Nevertheless, Ajax wasn’t impressed.

“I wish you wouldn’t horse around on defense,” he growled at Odysseus.

“Did you say ‘wooden horse’? the Ithacan king asked. “You know, there might be something in that.”

• via: Bridge by Frank Stewart (Inquirer)

… visit the original article to see if the hands work with the description. I don’t do the Bridge thing, so I have no idea …