Hodie est XVI Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 21 Poseideion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Armand D’Angour, Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- [BMCR] Cynthia Stallman-Pacitti, The Life of Saint Pankratios of Taormina. Edited by John B. Burke. Byzantina Australiensia, 22. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018.
- [BMCR] Altay Cokun, David Engles (ed.), Rome and the Seleukid East: Selected Papers from Seleukid Study Day V, Brussels, 21-23 August 2015. Collection Latomus, volume 360. Leuven: Peeters, 2019.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends the birth of small locusts, but there will still be prosperity.
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)