December 5, 2012
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Tip o’ the pileus to Walter Muzzy for this update from AFP via Straits Times: Stray cats prowling the ruins of ancient Rome can rest easy on their marble pedestals – a feline colony tucked away near the spot where Julius Caesar was murdered is no longer threatened with closure. “These cats are not up…
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If you want the fancy schmancy medical term for Kate Middleton’s ‘condition’, it’s hyperemesis gravidarum … I guess the Greek makes you throw up while the Latin weighs you down? A Royal Spotlight on a Rare Condition (Neatorama)
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Hype for a documentary airing on BBC this Friday: Remnants of a Roman statue in North Africa could be the “first-ever depiction of tartan”, according to a BBC Scotland documentary. A piece of a bronze statue of the Emperor Caracalla contains the small figure of a Caledonian warrior wearing what appears to be tartan trews.…
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erinaceous (Dictionary.com) connive (Merriam-Webster) hebdomad (Wordsmith) mumpsimus (OED) Latinitweets: noun 4: manus , manus, f => hand, group of people http://t.co/pTGZGjM0 #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) December 5, 2012 bellus: pretty, handsome, beautiful: adjective. Example sentence:Belli viri bellas feminas amant.Translation:Han… http://t.co/DgHIrfaZ — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) December 5, 2012
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nonas decembres Rites in honour of Faunus: essentially a rural ritual involving an offering of wine and a kid on a turf altar to mark the end of the year’s toil and ensure the continued protection of the sheep. 302 A.D. — martyrdom of Gratus and companions
rogue classicism 