December 3, 2012
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From Greek Reporter: After ten years of work, involving the expertise and goodwill of an extraordinary number of people working around the globe, the Archimedes Palimpsest Project has released its data. It is a historic data-set, revealing new texts from the ancient world. A complete facsimile of the revealed palimpsested texts is available on Googlebooks…
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effervescent (Dictionary.com) septentrional (Wordsmith) geophagous (Worthless) Latinitweets: preposition: contra , + accusative => against http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) December 3, 2012 ubi: where, when: adverb. Example sentence:Ibi potest valere populus ubi leges valent.Translation:The people are… http://t.co/NRt1rVnZ — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) December 3, 2012
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ante diem iii nonas decembres Possible date for rites in honour of the bona dea: essentially private rituals for Roman women only held in the house of a consul or praetor and attended by the Vestal Virgins and assorted upper class types. The actual date does not appear to have been ‘fixed’ and, of course,…
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Laudator Temporis Acti: A Pretty Piece of Paganism.
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Laudator Temporis Acti: Classical Professors.