Hodie est a.d. V Id. Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 21 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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What Latin words and concepts for time are still with us today? Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University).
Jacob wonders, ‘if field artillery was ever used against a Macedonian-style phalanx? If not, why not? The close formation and immobility of the phalanx would leave it extremely susceptible to scorpion, ballista, etc fire.’
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends the death of flocks due to wolves.
… 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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