February 28, 2013

  • posted with permission: Hippocrates: Volume X. Edited and translated by PAUL POTTER. Loeb Classical Library 520. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xxii + 432. Hardcover, $24.00/£15.95. ISBN 978-0-674-99683-0. Reviewed by Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin In 1983, after a hiatus of fifty-two years, Potter produced the fifth volume in…

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  • Classical Words of the Day

    archetype (Wordsmith) dentiloquist (Wordnik) Latinitweets: noun 3: clamor , clamoris, m => shout, shouting, noise http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) February 28, 2013 nē-dum, conj. (lit. while not) by no means, much less (class.), indicates that whereas one thing is not, another can still less be. — Charlton T. Lewis (@LewisandShort) February 27,…

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  • pridie kalendas martias Amburbium — a ‘moveable feast’ which may or may not have actually been held on this day, but does seem to have happened near the end of February. A sacrificial procession was led around the boundaries of the city as a rite of purification. 116 A.D. — supplicatio pro salute Traiani (day…

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  • Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Stirpes: Rome “a new kind of city”.

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  • Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: February 28.

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