Chalked on one of the exterior walls of Oriel: "Water is best"

In any other town I'd think that was a coincidence rather than a reference to Pindar...

http://www.oddee.com/item_89219.aspx

... do you get Latin toilet-stall graffiti:

"salve"

"adeste"
"venimus!" [below, in different ink/hand, with an arrow pointing up]

"lingua Latina mortua est." [oh the irony.]

Realization:
My inbox takes up more space on the GMail server than the entirety of Latin literature (PHI) takes up on my little hard drive. And that's just since I joined GMail in fall of 2007.
It's a wonder we know anything about antiquity at all given how little there is of it left to us!

Quote of the day:

"Romans, of course, not only built bridges but beat their wives. No doubt they did about as much of the one as of the other."

-R. MacMullen, Enemies of the Roman Order: Treason, Unrest, and Alienation in the Empire , 1967.

To go with the Facebook Aeneid:

If Homer's Odyssey Was [sic] Written on Twitter

I don't really want to do this on Facebook, but I'm bored so I wanted to do it - here you go ( Read more... )

Today has not been great, but it's looking up now:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1136
Hee!!

Reading Tacitus, watching the snow, and listening to Tallis.... there are worse ways to spend a morning.

Hilarious:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7727136.stm

This is why I'm glad I didn't become a vet after all - I don't have to get this excited about poop.