Posted on 10/04/2019 9:10:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Invitation to Biggus Dickus’ orgy on Saturn’s Day..........................
Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” translated into Latin
Livejournal.com | 10/08/2003 | Quislibet [Livejournal]
Posted on 10/15/2003 11:54:03 AM PDT by Constitution Day
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1001719/posts
“Carpe deum” - Caesar the dame.
Caesar her good, yeah.
Hauri tuam Ovaltinam
Classic
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I never see it or other Monty Python movies on the schedules of any of the cable channels.............
I hope it something utterly banal like a grocery list. That would be hilarious
You owe me a new keyboard!
Caesar salad is actually Mexican food. The salad was invented at the Caesar Hotel in Tijuana of all places.
Lol. Wouldn’t that be the Hotel Cesar?
Yep, that’s the place. Had one there and it was really pretty good.
Maybe it's just my tired old eyes, but the Herculaneum scrolls (both the fragment in the linked article and this one from your "Villa of the Papyri" link"...
...look much more like Greek script than Roman to me...
What am I missing here...?
TXnMA
We're not missing it, the Faux News reporter missed it. He or she will be well suited for a career in journalism, probably be assigned to impeachment duty, er, that is, the DC beat. I think there may have been a press release from the team working on the non-invasive reading project, some kind of an update, perhaps?
Most or all of the Villa scrolls have been by a single author, an Epicurean philosopher. So, y'know, fascinating to specialists but dull as dirt to most of us. :^) The scrolls were found packed and ready to flee with, if memory serves, but were left behind. I'm tempted to think that the more interesting books had also been packed and some had to be left behind, so... :^)
The real blithering idiocy of the article -- I think it was pointed out earlier in the topic, but just in case... -- is that the scrolls were buried by the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius, while Julius Caesar was assassinated by lawless cowards in 44 BC, an interval of 123 years.
Serioualy, I have been waiting years to see if this technology is going to work on these charred remnants of the ancient world. I hope to see them come to life before I die.
Gaius Corpulus to Flatulus Maximus:
Greetings to you and to all in your household. To your wife and children I send my best wishes for health and prosperity. And I do beseech you to remind that mischievous Celtic slave girl to keep our little secret. I am confident you will not endeavor to enquire of her as to its nature.
My thoughts often turn to home and the superb wine pressed from the vineyards on the slopes of Vesuvius. And it is on the subject of Vesuvius that is the occasion for this epistle.
My travels in the East have introduced me to certain men of knowledge, and who claim that the superb soil of a region is sometimes associated with the past wrath of Vulcan displayed in a fury of fire, smoke and terrible destruction. They further informed that such incidents follow not long on the heels of great shaking of the ground as Vulcan himself hammers his forge closer and closer to those to whom he would bring harm.
You no doubt remember clearly the great shaking that destroyed much of Pompeii just two years before I was called to my first tour of duty in Cappadocia. And so I write to urge that you and your family relocate to Rome or Capua without delay.
Whatever you do — don’t roll up this letter and stick it on the shelf.
lol
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