March 2013
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As many longtime rogueclassicism and Explorator readers know, when Easter comes around we usually get one or two claims of varying degrees of credulity having to do with the crucifixion and/or resurrection of Jesus (Explorator readers, e.g., will be getting the latest Shroud of Turin news this weekend). A frequent forayer in this particular milieu…
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From the Echo: ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe there could be an undiscovered Roman temple and villa in the grounds of Sudeley Castle. A Roman column which was found propping open a door inside the castle has sparked hopes there are historic ruins beneath the grounds. Professor Martin Henig believes the column, which would have been around 40cm…
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posted with permission: Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World. Edited by Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel, and Richard J. A. Talbert. The Ancient World: Comparative Histories. Malden Mass., Oxford and Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Pp. xx + 289. Hardcover, £85.00/$140.95. ISBN 978-0-470-67425-3. Reviewed by Cornelis van Tilburg, Leiden University This volume contains 14…
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pyroclastic(OED) Latinitweets: verb 3 deponent: loquor , loqui, locutus sum => speak http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) March 27, 2013 bŭtŭbatta = nugatoria, trifles, worthless things nūgātōrĭus, a, um, adj. nugator, trifling, worthless, useless, futile, nugatory — Charlton T. Lewis (@LewisandShort) March 26, 2013 κάμπτω —bend, curve, II.turn or guide a horse or…
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ante diem vi kalendas apriles 47 B.C. — Gaius Julius Caesar is victorious in Alexandria 47 B.C. — Ptolemy XIII drowns while trying to cross the Nile (related to the foregoing event?)
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