April 2013

  • occlusion (Merriam Webster) cachinnate (Wordsmith) peccancy (OED) Latinitweets: verb 3: trado , tradere, tradidi, traditus => hand over http://t.co/Ek3k0x9CkU #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab — LatinVocab (@LatinVocab) April 24, 2013 intempestiva: untimely, out of season: adjective. Example sentence:Amicitia nullo loco excluditur; numquam int… http://t.co/2YEhTZuGxI — Latin Language (@latinlanguage) April 24, 2013 cratis, cratis F wickerworkbundle of brush,…

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  • ante diem viii kalendas maias Vinalia (day 2?) 1184 B.C. — “conquest and destruction of Troy” (according to one reckoning) 339 B.C. — Timoleon defeats the Carthaginians at the Crimesus (according to one reckoning) 27 B.C. — the future emperor Tiberius dons his toga virilis

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  • Expressions of Existence via  Latin for Addicts.

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  • A Classicist in Dublin via res gerendae.

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  • Gamifying Latin Redux

    A couple weeks ago we had an item from the Old Gold and Black on Ted Gellar-Goad’s efforts to gamify Latin prose comp (Gamifying Latin Prose Comp). Science Daily has an item in the same vein, but with a bit more detail for folks wondering about the method: Choose your character, write spells, map the…

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