Hodie est a.d. IV Id. Oct. 2774 AUC ~ 6 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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Book Reviews
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- [BMCR] Clément Bur, La citoyenneté dégradée: une histoire de l’infamie à Rome (312 av. J.-C. – 96 apr. J.-C.). Collection de l’École francaise de Rome, 544. Roma: École fran-caise de Rome, 2019.
- [BMCR] Laura Candiotto, Olivier Renaut, Emotions in Plato. Brill’s Plato studies series, volume 4. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends prosperity but very heavy winds.
… 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)
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