December 23, 2011

  • Tip o’ the pileus to Steven Perkins on the Latinteach list for this intesting item from the Vatican Insider: Students from two high schools will be taking quite a unique exam tomorrow at the Vatican, and they will be able to rely on a device usually banned from most exams: the cellphone. The Vatican newspaper…

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  • ante diem x kalendas januarias Saturnalia continues (day 7) Larentalia — a funerary ritual at the purported tomb of Acca Larentia, who was the wife of the shepherd who found Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf. rites in honour of the Tempestates, which seems to be a Latin translation of the Punic divinity…

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