Tag Archives: Latin

IO, SATURNALIA!

Posted on December 17, 2022 by JE

It’s a Saturnalia on Saturday! It must be extra potent.

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It Can Only Get Better from Here: “Alias Smith and Jones” (pilot)

Posted on December 17, 2022 by JE

Everything Is Better With Latin!™, and alias is Latin for “elsewhere”. At least the pilot of Alias Smith and Jones has that going for it. That and the telegenic qualities of the leads are about the only thing in this … Continue reading →

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Delusions of Grandeur

Posted on December 15, 2022 by JE

divinam ex eo maiestatem asserere sibi coepit; datoque negotio, ut simulacra numinum religione et arte praeclara, inter quae Olympii Iovis, apportarentur e Graecia, quibus capite dempto suum imponeret. —Suetonius, CALIGULA 22 “From that time he began to claim godhood for … Continue reading →

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