July 18, 2012
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posted with permission: David Potter, The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. (First published in the UK by Quercus, 2011.) Pp. xxx + 416. Paperback, $24.95. ISBN 978-0-19-984275-9. Reviewed by Stephen Brunet, University of New Hampshire The last decade has seen a series of…
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I could have sworn I posted a link to this when it just resided at the Internet Archive, but it has been posted to Youtube, so I might as well do it again … it’s from the Prelinger Archives and is silent, but I haven’t been able to get a date on it:
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An OUP video:
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calliope (Merriam-Webster) fisc (Wordsmith) arcane (OED) Latinitweets: verb 3: interficio , interficere, interfeci, interfectus => kill http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) July 18, 2012 noun 1: ira , irae, f => anger http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) July 18, 2012 nimis: too much: adverb. Example sentence:Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.Translation:Fate…
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ante diem xv kalendas sextilias ¶ Mercatus ¶ 477 B.C. — 300 members of the gens Fabia die in the battle of the Cremera ¶ 390 (or 387) B.C. — Gauls defeat the Romans at Allia ¶ 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome begins ¶ 69 A.D. — Vitellius is given the titles…
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