Verba Horati

Classical matters mainly, with a tendency to dwell upon Horace.

[Verba Horati @VerbaHorati]

After #MyFirstLoeb (Bennett's Horace, btw) can we get #MyFirstOxfordRed trending? https://t.co/f2XTlTv7Y9

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Not bad, but no Horace or Catullus? Even in the also-rans? https://t.co/ZJVZfW6cKf

[Penguin Classics UK @classicpenguins]

The 15 best ancient classics from the @Telegraph - https://t.co/sX16FMMpfZ

[Michael Hendry @Curculiunculus]

. @proustitute Simonides 519 Fr. 67 is even better:
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There should be a dot under the π to show even the one letter is uncertain.

[Verba Horati @VerbaHorati]

@andrew_worley @JakeNabel Slightly less compelling spectacle IMHO, but perhaps Nero invented greyhound racing.

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@sonofspeke @JonathanHsy @Peter_Bridgman @holland_tom Hoi barbaroi?

[Verba Horati @VerbaHorati]

@andrew_worley @JakeNabel Er, but the horses weren't on strike...

[dr. keftiugal 📚🏺 @keftiugal]

Archaeologists To Ben Carson: Ancient Egyptians Wrote Down Why The Pyramids Were Built - Forbes https://t.co/r3W11ttTyU

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@FaberBooks These fragments I have shored against my ruins #EliotDay

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Irony of Harvard, world's richest university, keeping Piketty in hardback to maximise return on capital. @Harvard_Press

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I think a good name for a digital humanities resource would be iCloudius.

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Times leader: "Poetry is a luxury we cannot afford” –Lee Kuan Yew in Wit and Wisdom, a book which displays neither of the advertised virtues

[Catharine Edwards @CatharineEdwa]

Another lovely image to celebrate Ovid's birthday:

[Verba Horati @VerbaHorati]

The Times today on French schools dropping Latin: "Perhaps if more French students learnt to conjugate, it would stop the country declining"

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Classical Latin texts amount to only 0.01% of all surviving Latin. So much to read, so little time http://t.co/8VA1cHPQ03

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Out of the blue, my 7-year-old presented me with this. #StartEmYoung

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@LitGenius Had to look him up to see that John Quinn wasn't a photobomber avant la lettre.

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@CTHalfWit Although no longer caelebs, I heartily agree. The sun's out: a good day to be told "linque seuera". I'm off to the park.

[Verba Horati @VerbaHorati]

@LoveArchaeology @caitlinrgreen Lovely, but why "pictos victos" and not "picti victi"?

[Carole Blake @caroleagent]

RT @JomoLondon: @SamBaker How a humble bookshop poster can generate great PR. (H/t @eilidhmac):”

[Verba Horati @VerbaHorati]

@telemachus Perhaps it's because it was written by a "British baron". Too much Downton, perhaps? #ToffCrush