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Salvete, I haven't read all previous answers, so if I sound a bit redundant, bear with me. I believe the reason that Latin died was that it ceased to evolve. Bear in mind that there weren't real "grammary books" in even Cicero's time. Latin was taught by reading famous works of literature. F...

A superlative only adds the notion of "very", as in "his feet are very big". If that's what you wanted to say with "too", then a superlative will do the trick. But if it's more like "his feet are too big to fit in his shoes" or something like that, then you're looking for what Tergestus already s...

Salve, Atticus, Mus and myself have been to Pompeii last year. Really a special place. You can actually wander around and ask someone for directions to a certain house you want to visit "The way to the house of the Faun ? ( http://freestockphotos.com/POMPEII/HouseFaun.jpg ) Oh no...

En hoe zijn de vooruitzichten voor Mus en Draco, afgestudeerd of toch nog een extra zittijd erbij om het af te leren ?

Salve Orce, Thanks for looking; there is a connection between the roman Hercules and Stoicism (for example, Seneca has written 2 tragedies about him, Hercules Furens and another one, Hercules Oetaeus I think). Anyway, I just started reading "The Herakles theme" by Galinsky, so I'll find somethin...

Salve Orce,

Do your sources say anything about the link between Roman Stoicism and Hercules ?

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Lupus

Salvete, I thought some of you might be interested to read the oldest text we have that mentions Arthur, it's from Nennius, Historia Brittonum: Tunc Arthur pugnabat contra illos in illis diebus cum regnibus Brittonum, sed ipse dux erat bellorum. (...) Duodecim fuit bellum in monte Badonis, i...

Ik heb het ook opgepakt, samen met La meglio gioventù om te herbekijken op woensdag zullen dat tegen dit weekend een slordige 6 opgenomen films zijn, heerlijk die examens... misschien nadien nog eens een meetingske houden ? Danny moet zijn inkomsten toch hebben zien afnemen met die semesterexamen...

Salvete, To give this thread some direction again: does anyone know of other habits like this ? I'm referring to writing, so don't say that the Romans had this rather strange habit of walking around in toga :wink: Specific ways of beginning or ending a letter, a wil, a contract, an imperial ...

How about 11313211 ?

I'm with Marius on the pair of shoes for 2 and I'll go with a hole for number 3

Indeed, according to I.J. Pfeijffer, the satiric poet Hipponax was the first to use that rather scandalous word

Any idea what it was in Greek ?

Salve Attice, 166 BC though... a lot had changed in a hundred, in two hundred years, I remember Tacitus writing about a legate (so that's about the first century AD), who thought they should bring back the Lex Oppia and he was mostly ridiculed for it. Both the tempora and mores had changed enough...

But he also mentions his mother by name....

Also, for some reason, I don't know why, it was a habit of not calling a daughter by name in a will. It was okay to make arrangements for your wife and write her name in doing so, but not when talking about your daughter. For sons, this appears to have been no problem at all. Again, in the will of A...

In Ancient Greece, a will would very often start with the same formula, let's take the will of Aristoteles as an example, here's the first line: "estai men eu, ean de ti sumbainèi, tade dietheto Aristotelès" "All will go well, but if something should happen, this is what Aristoteles has decide...

Salve Scerio, scripsisti Is it that inconceivable that Maximus would have appealed to the virile side of victory Perhaps not, but I don't think that while writing the script, they said "well, Roma victrix would be correct, but let's make it Roma victor to suggest that Maximus is appealing...

Salve Tergeste, Yes, it seems like a classic case, kind of like "I give the book to Atticus" - librum Attico dono, but docere (and edocere, meaning the same) goes with 2 accusatives, one for what is being teached and one for who it is teached to. For example: I will teach the students gramm...

Hmm, I think my Latin teacher would suggest "Quis latinam me docet ?"

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Lupus

Salve Curio, I haven't read them yet, I'm about 400 pages in the first one and I like it a lot so far. The next six books are waiting on the shelf (the Christmas season has been good, books from everyone :wink: ). I heard Jordan is now writing a few prequels first, so it's going to be a while...