(I posted this to Tumblr but I decided I should put it here too.)

Because sometimes you just have to translate comic books into Latin.

Haec res publica condita est hac imprimis ratione ut mores nostri semper sint defendendi, quamvis ruat caelum. Cum vulgus et ardeliones et totius orbis terrarum incolae iubeant te cedere, tui est consistere mente ( Read more... )

This is today's obligatory post, in my effort to post something every day. (I may or may not be hurting for material ( Read more... )

Internets! I have three things you should watch and/or listen to:

1. Via
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Would you like to read a 16th-century English/Latin phrasebook? The phrases are, um, mostly very strange. I think it is supposed to be for people who don't know Latin but yet somehow are intimately familiar with Latin textual abbreviations, of which there are a great number. Anyway, then you can learn the (occasionally hilariously incorrect or at ( Read more... )

So
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Am clearly still in the Everything Is Avengers And Nothing Hurts stage of fandom. (Except current canon. I think current comics canon is clearly getting ready to hurt a lot. Possibly this Wednesday. Also WTF why is there even a Dyson sphere? Maybe I should just read backcanon.) The amount of feelings I am having is getting a little embarrassing. I ( Read more... )

Hey internet! Know what movie I'm going to go see eleventy million times after they finally make it?

The Roman, which is about the time itty-bitty Julius Caesar was captured by Cilician pirates. No, really. No, really. Best movie premise ever. I hope they actually make it. I hope Mark Wahlberg doesn't decide to star in it ( Read more... )

Okay, Eagle fandom, you know how there's a bit at the beginning of the novel in which Marcus reminisces about his father? He had very vivid memories of a slight, dark man with laughter lines at the corners of his eyes, who had come home from time to time, and taught him to fish, to play 'Flash the Fingers', and throw a javelin.I just found out ( Read more... )

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Apparently somehow I had never heard of Gaius Mucius Scaevola before this evening. I feel I should inform you, internet, of how badass he was, because he was especially badass. Yay for semi-mythical early Romans fighting Lars Porsenna the king of Clusium.

( Livy 2.12, tr. Benjamin Oliver Foster )