Stilum Vertere: How to Erase Something Like a True Roman
How many times a day do you hit backspace? Or are you perhaps old school and use a real pencil? In that case: how ...
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Latin Classes During the Roman Empire
Guest post written by Eleanor Dickey, Professor of Classics at the University of Reading in England.
Two ...
Auribus Teneo Lupum: Why Emperor Tiberius and President Thomas Jefferson Both Held a Wolf by the Ears
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t?
Proverb For ...
Lupus in Fabula: How to Speak of the Devil in Latin
In the Roman playwright Terence’s play Adelphoe, written c:a 160 B.C., two of the characters, Syrus and Ctesipho, ...
Hastas Abicere – How to Quit Like a Roman
To throw the spears, or hastas abicere in Latin, is an expression used by the Romans when you they done when you ...
The Ancient Language of Learning and Science
Written by Hans Aili, Professor emeritus of Latin, Stockholm University.
Possessing a compendious ...
Litterae Vikingorum, Pars I: De Runis Latinis
Salvete sodales! Invitatus sum a Daniele, hospite huius sedis, ut paucis narrem de rebus quae me potissimum ...