June 9, 2012
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I keep hearing about Radiolab’s stuff of late, and here’s one that is largely within our purview … the official blurb: What is the color of honey, and “faces pale with fear”? If you’re Homer–one of the most influential poets in human history–that color is green. And the sea is “wine-dark,” just like oxen…though sheep…
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incorrigible (Merriam Webster) operose (OED) Latinitweets: dubium: doubt: noun. Example sentence:Ubi dubium ibi libertas.Translation:Where there is doubt, there is freedom. http://t.co/9J19eNpf — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) June 9, 2012 dictātūra, ae, f. The office of a dictator, dictatorship — Charlton T. Lewis (@LewisandShort) June 9, 2012 nanciscor, nactus and nanctus to get, obtain, receive a thing…
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ante diem v idus junias Vestalia — festival in honour of Vesta, the goddess of the hearth 53 B.C. — the Roman army under Marcus Licinius Crassus (Dives) suffers a massive defeat at the hand of the Persians under Surenas near Carrhae; Crassus dies as a result of the battle 17 B.C.. — ludi Latini…
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Elginism: Parthenon Marbles debate to be broadcast live at Acropolis Museum & re-shown on following day.
rogue classicism 