Thomas Hendrickson
thomashendrickson.bsky.social
Thomas Hendrickson
@thomashendrickson.bsky.social
Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
It works for me.

Me as the one who is motivated by cheese.

I don't have a dog.
January 14, 2026 at 4:14 PM
"Burned everyone who bought"

Serious question-- who buys this stuff? Really
January 13, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Not quite within her lifetime, but here is Isotta Nogarola (d. 1466) among the women depicted in Foresti's 1497 De plurimis claris selectisque mulieribus.
January 13, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Interesting! Because of danger to the child, or a sense that it's inappropriate to be on the equipment without permission? (Or both? Or something else?)
January 12, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Same! But that opinion is not widely shared within my marriage.
January 12, 2026 at 3:05 PM
And we're not even a full year in.
January 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I expect that this is what life will be like from here on out.
January 8, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Yeah.

Another complication is that Egeria survives in a single ms.
January 7, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Thanks for the heads up!
January 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Yeah, it would be easy enough for each of those final vowels to have a stroke over them.
January 7, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Also, the whole of Fronto ad M. Caes. 1.4 is pretty good in this regard. (Marcus Aurelius has copied out one of Fronto's speeches in his own hand, and Fronto takes the opportunity to provide some thoughts on script v. content)
January 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Maybe this is earlier than you have in mind, but Fronto borrows a copy of Ennius's "Sota" from Marcus Aurelius, and then sends him back a copy in "littera festiviore" (ad M. Caes. 4.2.6)
January 7, 2026 at 5:36 PM
It's here! (But he doesn't comment on the phrase, unless I missed it) archive.org/details/phil...
Philologischer kommentar zur Peregrinatio Aetheriae, untersuchungen zur geschichte der lateinischen sprache : Löfstedt, Einar, 1880-1955 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
3 preliminary leaves, [3]-359, [1] pages 26 cm
archive.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Call me Ahab.
January 7, 2026 at 2:27 PM