Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Sex. 2775 AUC ~ 27 Hekatombion in the second year of the 700th Olympia
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Listen to the beginning of Seneca’s “On The Shortness Of Life” read in Latin. Senecae “De brevitate vitae” initium Latine recitatum. This is part of “Lectiones aestivae”, the summer series where I read passages of Latin texts from all ages.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends bad things for a gang of youth and the crops. It will be a time of disease.
… 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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