quidquid bene dictum est ab ullo, meum est
Here’s an interesting little time killer our friends over at Scoop alerted us to. The BBC has a tool which will superimpose an ‘plan’ of the Flavian Amphitheatre in the postal code/area code/whatever of your choice on a satellite view:
Adrian Murdoch continues his look at the ‘shadow emperors’ with a guy whose name suggests he’s rather too sweet to be a ruthless Roman emperor:
… a taste of latinitas:
585 B.C. — solar eclipse predicted by Thales of Miletus occurs during the battle of the Halys (another possible date)
20 A.D. — Drusus “Minor”, the son of the emperor Tiberius, celebrates an ovatio for his victories in Illyricum
ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Heliconis
Latin for Addicts: Comparison of Gerund and Gerundive Ablative.
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