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...
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