xv K. Ian.
The Kalends are coming. Ianuary Kalends. The name of the month is used as an adjective to the day in Latin. (a.d. xv Kal. Ian., ante diem xv Kalendas Ianuarias: 15 days to the Ianuary Kalends.)
I miss talking about praenomina and the Roman calendar... 😶
Today is the 4th before the Nonae Nouembres! 😌🗓 (a.d. iv Nonas Nouembres)
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Cicero is a cognomen. Caesar is a cognomen (originally). Macer, Falco, Atticus, Magnus, Maximus, Celsus, Gracchus, Sabinus, Naso, Varro, Crassus...
If Duolingo Latin 🏛 were a little more stimulating... it might help.
But it's too basic, too dumb, the voices are terrible, and the characters aren't dressed in togae and stollae... 😐
This is a text I can publish. And it has enough of Roman culture, I think, that will translate a little bit of my language philosophy for the relation between ancient Latin and Portuguese.
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Tags for the tweet above. 👆🏻
Intellegibile est: tessera temporális multum cónstat, magnam pecúniam servátúrus essés.
Thalia in Greek is Tháleia, stressed in the first syllable, but in Latin it would be stressed in the second, because the i is long, Thalīa.
Who could tell? 😶
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