March 21, 2013
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posted with permission: Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History. By Debra Hamel. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. xxiii + 329. Hardcover, $60.00/£29.45. ISBN 978-1-4214-0655-8. Paper, $29.95/£15.50. ISBN 978-1-4214-0656-5. Reviewed by Emily Baragwanath, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Herodotus’…
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insouciance (Dictionary.com) demotic (Merriam Webster) discursive (Wordsmith) philomuse (OED) Latinitweets: verb 3: pono , ponere, posui, positus => put, place, put up http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) March 21, 2013 Prohibition is regularly expressed in classic prose 1) by nōlī w/ Infinitive, 2) by cavē w/ Present Subjun 3) by nē w/ Perf…
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ante diem xii kalendas apriles Festival of Mars continues (day 21) Quinquatrus continues (day 3) — originally a one-day festival with rites in honour of Minerva, by Ovid’s day it had been increased to five days, with the last four involving gladiatorial bouts 1766 — death of Richard Dawes (Classical scholar)
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A Don’s Life by Mary Beard: New pope? New Roman emperor?.
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Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Proculus Coin Up For Sale 2.
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