May 28, 2012
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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: If the Colosseum Had Been Built … (BBC)
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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: Glycerius: Emperors of Rome
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accoutrement (Merriam Webster) asperse (Dictionary.com) flagitious (Wordsmith) obnubilate (OED … great word) vastity (Worthless Word for the Day) … a taste of latinitas: radix: root, source: noun. Example sentence:Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas.Translation:The love of money is … http://t.co/Ud90tKAL — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) May 28, 2012
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ante diem v kalendas Iunias 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
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Latin for Addicts: Comparison of Gerund and Gerundive Ablative.
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