Category Archives: ANCIENT & MODERN

Gnomicon 280

Posted on 16 February 2013 by

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  280 Saturday 16 February 2013 Read gnomica 1-250 here! 251     252     253     254     255     256     257     258     259     260     261     262     263     264     … Continue reading →

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Gnomicon 278

Posted on 14 February 2013 by

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  278 Thursday 14 February 2013 Read gnomica 1-250 here! 251     252     253     254     255     256     257     258     259     260     261     262     263     264     … Continue reading →

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Gnomicon 275

Posted on 11 February 2013 by

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  275 Monday 11 February 2013 Read gnomica 1-250 here! 251     252     253     254     255     256     257     258     259     260     261     262     263     264     … Continue reading →

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Gnomicon 271

Posted on 7 February 2013 by

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  271 Thursday 7 February 2013 Read gnomica 1-250 here! 251     252     253     254     255     256     257     258     259     260     261     262     263     264     … Continue reading →

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Gnomicon 254

Posted on 21 January 2013 by

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  254 Monday 21 January 2013 Read gnomica 1-250 here! 251     252     253 If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice … Continue reading →

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Ancient & Modern – Quintilian On names

Posted on 18 January 2013 by

gentes quoque ac loca et alia multa reperias inter nominum causas. “On investigarion you would find that the sources for names include peoples, places and many other phenomena.” Quintilian (c. 35 CE – 100)  Institutio oratoria 1.3.26 Where do names … Continue reading →

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Gnomicon 204

Posted on 2 December 2012 by

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  204 Sunday 2 December 2012 Read gnomica 1-200 here! 201     202     203  The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. Alfred … Continue reading →

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Ancient & Modern: The Modern Language of Love

Posted on 28 November 2012 by

κα]ὶ γ[ὰρ αἰ φεύγει, ταχέως διώξει, <αἰ δὲ δῶρα μὴ δέκετ’, ἀλλὰ δώσει,> <αἰ δὲ μὴ φίλει, ταχέως φιλήσει> <κωὐκ ἐθέλοισα. In fact, if she flees you now, soon she’ll pursue, and if she refuses gifts now, later she’ll give … Continue reading →

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Ancient & Modern: Aeneas’ Choices

Posted on 28 November 2012 by

Ancient & Modern: Aeneas’ Choices Dixerat, atque illam media inter talia ferro conlapsam aspiciunt comites, ensemque cruore spumantem sparsasque manus. Dido had spoken.  Meanwhile she fell on the blade as her companions watched, the sword pumping blood and spraying her … Continue reading →

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Be the Best! Homer Iliad 6.208

Posted on 14 November 2012 by

αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων Always be the best and be far above others. Homer Iliad 6.208 Glaukos, fighting on the Trojan side, stops in mid-battle to exchange personal and family information with the Greek warrior Diomedes.  It turns … Continue reading →

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