Classical Words of the Day

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cruciverbalist (Dictionary.com)
disport (Merriam-Webster)

Latinitweets:

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vitium: fault, crime, vice: noun. Example sentence:Nec vitia nostra nec remedia tolerare possumus.Translation:We… http://t.co/Ew0R99PA

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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii idus decembres

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ante diem iii idus decembres

Agonalia — the fourth and final occurrence of this festival in the Roman calendar; like all instances, the Rex Sacrorum would sacrifice a ram in the Regia, but on this occasion, the sacrifice was apparently in honour of Sol Indiges.
Septimontium — a somewhat obscure festival apparently originally only celebrated by the ‘montani’ (i.e. the ‘hill-dwellers’) which involved sacrifices on each of Rome’s seven hills.
287 — martyrdom of Fuscian (and others)
302 — martyrdom of Pontian