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2026

Fatale Monstrum to Non Humilis Mulier... Cleopatra in Horace's Odes, 1.3726 Oct

Lysistrata2 Oct

Eros, Eironeia, and the Net in Plato's Symposium18 Sept

Birds...Bees...Obliviousness...Longus...4 Aug

Caesar's Conception of Northern Europe (and its Pliability)4 Jun

Gigantes, a way-too-detailed reflection3 Jun

The Fictionalized, Sensationalized, Tabloidized Private Lives of Public Men3 Apr

Sulpicia -- An author in her own right (write...) or a Social Document?8 Mar

Curses on Curses!4 Jan

2025

Tocharian B: Part one4 Mar

A Language Named After the Wrong People9 Feb

a PIE party5 Feb

Monks, Monks, and... Monks27 Jan

Factoid of the day

Bellum Civile is also incorrectly called Pharsalia because of the phrase ‘venturi me teque legent; Pharsalia nostra’ in Line 9.985

Word of the day

Greek

τελειογονέω

produce fruit in perfection or in due season, Thphr.CP.1; Ph.:—Pass., come complete into the world, Id., in Thphr.CP.3; in Plu.b

Part of speech: VERB
Verb type: contract verb

Source: Liddell, Scott, Jones (LSJ9) · CC BY 4.0

Latin

Thrăsymăchus

A celebrated Grecian sophist of Chalcedon, Cic. de Or. 3, 16, 59; 3, 32, 128; id. Or. 12, 39; 13, 40; id. Brut. 8, 30; Quint. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 4; Juv. 7, 204 (where Ritschl, in Rhein. Mus. Neue Folge, 9, p. 480, reads Tharsymachi; many MSS. have Thresimachi).

Nominative: Thrăsymăchus
Part of speech: noun

Attestation: A celebrated Grecian sophist of Chalcedon, Cic. de Or. 3, 16, 59; 3, 32, 128; id. Or. 12, 39; 13, 40; id. Brut. 8, 30; Quint. 3, 1, 10; 3, 3, 4; Juv. 7, 204 (where Ritschl, in Rhein. Mus. Neue Folge, 9, p. 480, reads Tharsymachi; many MSS. have Thresimachi).Source: Lewis & Short, Perseus Digital Library

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