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Homo sapiens consulting a vademecum Latin isn’t dead; it’s everywhere, perhaps more than we realise – alibi, agenda, consensus, versus, homo sapiens, veto, alias, via, affidavit, vademecum, an item carried around, especially a handbook, and those indispensables i.e. (id est) ‘that is’, and etc. (et cetera) ‘and the rest’. Maths lovers and problem […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!February 6th, 2016 | Tags: English language, Latin sayings, lingua latina, Romans | Category: Insights, Latin, Roma Nova, Roman life, Roman traditions, Romans | 15 comments - (Comments are closed) Roman curse tablet from Bath (Photo by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)) The wish to curse a rival, a rip-off merchant, or somebody who cuts us up on the motorway or pushes in front of us in the queue for the first life-saving coffee of the day, is an age old instinct. Nowadays, when we […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!December 26th, 2015 | Tags: curse tablets, cursing, historical, Roman Bath, Roman lead, Rome | Category: Latin, Research, Roma Nova, Roman life, Roman traditions | 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Now on eighth day of Saturnalia. The poet Catullus called it “the best of days.” In ancient Rome, private festivities of Saturnalia had expanded to seven days by the late Republic, but during the Imperial period it varied from three to five days. Caligula extended official observances to five. We do ten days in Roma […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!December 24th, 2015 | Tags: Roma Nova | Category: Roman life, Roman traditions, Saturnalia | Comments are closed |
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