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Meletus
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Latine, Italiano, ἑλληνιστί, and even my mother tongue when I can be bothered.
Ad finem Ciceronis de natura deorum perveni, et quid proximum sit seligendumst.
March 28, 2024 at 7:39 PM
It is snowing snowing snowing still. Some “Spring” break this is.
March 26, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Well, this is the present. Spring Break, huh?
March 24, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Mi è piaciuto molto giocare lo scopone scientifico per la prima volta stasera da molti anni. :)
March 20, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Havin’ our weekly D&D game on Mondays is wild.
March 19, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Haud dormivi, sed in somnis praeterita visa sunt. Cerebrum, mens ista, res est insolita et mirabilis.
March 18, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Socrates, scurra Atheniensium, ut Cicero de natura Deorum disserens fert, ab Zenoni vocabatur. Neque dissentire possum!
March 16, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Merry(?) Ides of March for those who fetishize. ;) But seriously, I’m reading Suetonius all day with students too.
March 15, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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It is my *immense* pleasure to share the first issue of Res Difficiles, The Journal.

#ResDiffJournal

ancienthistorybulletin.org/res-difficil...
Res Difficiles, The Journal | The Ancient History Bulletin
ancienthistorybulletin.org
March 15, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Discipulos haud multos hodie docui propterea quod nonnulli ad scholas suas ire non potuerunt. Hoc vero mane nesciebam, itaque magis apud scriptoriam meam legebam quam soleo, sed exire et alia facere nequiebam. Manent igitur facienda post prandium.
March 13, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Heri sub vesperi conventum ludi scilicet D&D duxi, et bene agebatur. Hodie vero fessus sum. Nihilominus tres discipulos docebo.
March 12, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Oggi sto leggendo degli saggi dei miei studenti. Hanno scritto su questa statua: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevela...
March 11, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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Latinus magister mi par esse deo videtur.
March 11, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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The fact that any Teslas are allowed on the road and that the company has not been shuttered is among the larger if more mundane indictments that the corporate capture of our government is complete
It's easy to discount a lot of Tesla's terrible design choices as funny examples of Musk's idiocy, but there is a reason why cars have standardised gear shifting and mechanical door releases. Every Tesla like this should be pulled from the road permanently
If I had run a thought experiment on “what are the characteristics that would make someone’s accidental, preventable death a national news story with real policy consequences?”, Angelo Chao would be the answer.

How is there not a national recall of all Teslas? The doors don’t open in an emergency!
March 10, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Personally, if we are still changing clocks when I’m at an advanced age, I plan to be one of the casualties who dies of exhaustion side effects of it in protest.
March 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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It is my pleasure to announce the program for ResDiff5 (March 22, 2024), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Dominic Machado (@dominicmachado.bsky.social). resdifficiles.com/res-diff-5-2...
February 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
cum mula peperit, when a mule foals, i. e. never, Suet. Galb. 4.
March 9, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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What a time to be reading William of Tyre’s account of the sack of Jerusalem with my Latin class.

We did not treat the matter lightly.
March 8, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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March 8, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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March 8, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Happy International Women's Day! ICYMI here's how Hilary Clinton and the New York Times helped spread Israeli misinformation about Hamas and systemic wartime rape skepchick.org/2024/03/femi...
Feminists vs Israeli Disinformation: the New York Times’ False Rape Narrative
Big ol’ content warning before I start today, friends: I’m going to be talking about atrocities, including murder and sexual assault and war and genocide and, I mean, just name a terrible thing. I’…
skepchick.org
March 8, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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You never get to eat Zeno Salad because it's always /almost/ ready to go, but, wait, it just needs a little more tossing and maybe another ingredient.
Make up Ancient History inspired salad recipes, everyone.

#history 🏺
March 8, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Qui vix dormit, docere non debet sed qui non docet, non pecuniam accipiet. Quae cum ita sint, perferam et obduram per potentiam potionis arabicae. Quibus dictis, oportet quoque dicere omnes quibuscum hodie conveniam discipulos hilares atque industrios esse fortunate feliciterque.
March 8, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Scholas per diem quattuor latinas ducam, deinde mensam ludi cui nomen “Carceres ac Colubri” sit, vulgo “Dungeons and Dragons” sub vesperi agam, nam locum apud tabernam quandam repperi.
March 7, 2024 at 3:52 PM