Ancient Pucinum, modern Prosecco? Thursday's neo-Latin quotation
Et però dirò io che dotato d'eccellentissimi vini è il contado di Goritia, dove si ha ... quel Pucino antico...
View ArticleWhere, when and why to gather licorice: Friday's Latin quotation
[Glycyrriza] praestantissima in Cilicia, secunda Ponto, radice dulci et hac tantum in usu. capitur ea vergiliarum occasu ... hac diximus...
View ArticleAugustus liked Valpolicella, but not too much of it: Saturday's Latin quotation
Quotiens largissime se inuitaret, senos sextantes non excessit, aut si excessisset, reiciebat; et maxime delectatus est Raetico. c....
View ArticleThe penance for a wet dream depends on the nutritional state of the offender:...
Qui uoluntate obsceno liquore maculatus fuerit dormiendo, si ceruisa et carne habundat coenubium, iii noctis horis stando uigilet si sane...
View ArticleLatin antiquarian texts
Here's a useful collection of online Latin texts, including Macrobius, Isidore of Seville and some topographical material.
View ArticleThe use and choice of wine: Monday's Latin quotation
Vinum tibi temperabis et te vino, quod non erit acetosum, turbidum, nouum, acerbum, nigrum, grossum, sed bene digestum, desecatum, aureum,...
View ArticleMore Roman luxuries: additions to Empire of Pleasures
Amyclaean mackerel and Fundan wine [page 46] The traveller followed the shore of the Bay of...
View ArticleDiasatyrion, a Byzantine aphrodisiac: Tuesday's Latin quotation
Diasatyrion: antidotus e satyrio. Valet ad liberorum procreationem venereorumque frequentiorem vsum; imbecillitati renum succurrit & iis qui rem veneream agere...
View ArticleGoogle in Latin
Search Google in Latin? Of course you can ! (acknowledgments to Viggen at the
View ArticleThe wild foods of Sicily: Wednesday's neo-Latin quotation
Abonda tutta l'isola di bestiame; cioè di boi, uacche, pecore, capre, porci, & di molta caccia di cenghiali, daini, capreoli,...
View ArticleSensuality in the Roman kitchen (1): Thursday-Friday's Latin quotation
Nec tamen domi Milonem uel uxorem eius offendo, sed tantum caram meam Photidem: suis parabat isicium fartim concisum et pulpam...
View ArticleSensuality in the Roman kitchen (2): Saturday-Sunday's Latin quotation
Et tandem ad illam: 'Quam pulchre quamque festiue,' inquam 'Photis mea, ollulam istam cum nati- bus intorques! Quam mellitum pulmentum...
View ArticleThe marine fauna of Britain: Monday's food quotation
Et quidem praecipue issicio abundat et anguilla. Capiuntur autem saepissime et uituli marini et delphines nec non et balenae. ...
View ArticleLaganum = crumpet: Tuesday's Latin quotation
... tortamque panis unius, crustulam conspersam oleo; laganum de canistro azymorum. Exodus [Vulgate translation] 29.23. Wyclif's English translation...
View ArticlePoitevin gastronomy: Wednesday's Latin quotation
Itaque Pictavienses in vulgarium esu carnium bovinam avidius amplectuntur ... Caro recens nunc succum exigit pomorum silvestrium, nunc a viminibus...
View ArticleThe Spaniards drink beer before battle: Thursday's Latin quotation
... ut destinata morte in proelium ruerent, cum se prius epulis quasi inferiis impleuissent carnis semicrudae et celiae (sic uocant...
View ArticleLiquor, administered by a lady, calms a Puritan's brain: Friday's lexical...
Some time the spirit is so strong with him, it gets quite out of him, and then my mother, or...
View ArticleWhere and from what grapes raisin wine is made: Saturday's Latin quotation
passum a [C]ret[i]co Cilicium probatur et Africum. et in Italia finitimisque provinciis fieri certum est ex uva quam Graeci psithiam...
View ArticleThe three kinds of aloeswood: Sunday's Latin quotation
Illud etiam noueritis triplex esse aloes genus. Aliud est longe perfectius (huic calampat nomen est): hoc ... ex urbe Sarnau...
View ArticleA walking tour of ancient Rome
You can do anything on the Web. you can even take a walking tour through Rome at...
View ArticleSabine cheesecakes: Monday's food quotation
circuli, quod mixta farina et caseo et aqua circuitum aequabiliter fundebant. hos quidam qui magis incondite faciebant vocabant lixulas et...
View ArticleThe varieties of gum guggul: Tuesday's Latin quotation
... Bactriana, in qua bdellium laudatissimum: alii brochon appellant, alii malacham, alii maldacon, nigrum vero hadrobolon. nascitur et in Arabia...
View ArticleWhy are mullets so called?
Go straight to sci.lang.sanskrit for a discussion of the etymology of the Sanskrit and Tamil words for...
View ArticleTiberius's parsimony: Wednesday's Latin quotation
et ut parsimoniam publicam exemplo quoque iuuaret, sollemnibus ipse cenis pridiana saepe ac semesa obsonia apposuit dimidiatumque aprum, affirmans omnia...
View ArticleHow to prepare caviare: Thursday's Latin quotation
Conditum quod caviare vocant. Ova stirionis exemptis quibusdam nervis qui haec inter erant lota ex aceto aut vino albo in...
View ArticleWhere to bathe in Rome: Friday's non-foodie Latin quotation
Etrusci nisi thermulis lavaris,Inlotus morieris, Oppiane.Nullae sic tibi blandientur undae,Nec fontes Aponi rudes puellis,Non mollis Sinuessa fervidiqueFluctus Passeris aut superbus...
View ArticleRecipe for eggnog: Saturday's Latin quotation
Sorbitium bonum: conquassa ovorum vitella in paraside, de vino modicum apponendo, post bullias aquam et vinum vel cervesia in aqua...
View ArticleFavourite diet of the Caribes or Canibales: Sunday's Latin quotation
Earum terrarum incolae Canibales esse affirmant sive Caribes, humanarum carnium edaces. Peter Martyr of Anghiera, Decades 8.6
View ArticleWhen it comes to cabbage, the qunnabit of the Arabs is just like the...
Canabit est species caulis nota in Syria, et est habens folia et thyrsos sicut caules, et inter folia ipsius est...
View ArticleHow to conserve verjuice and other sour juices: Tuesday's food quotation
Agrestae succus: eligitur ex ea & ex succo uvae ... et ... de lemoncellorum succo ... et de succo sumach...
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