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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey is now available electronically.

The print version will be out in the UK in December and in the US in March.

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I just say "Agnes and Her Contraption"

I thought the Mick Jagger song was Wild Horses?

"Pound is only an improved Longfellow and Eliot is getting worse every day."

My students last year enjoyed Cicero's explanation for why one says "nobiscum" rather than "cum nobis"

I think classics is long overdue for a systematic series of scholia translations into English. Undergraduates without Greek can gain so much from looking at the scholia, but it is very difficult when the instructor has to manually translate whatever they assign

I'm rescued by the fact that a) I don't at the moment have a PC so I need to think hard before deciding if I want one, b) this gives me an excuse to wait for various tweaks and fixes, and c) I'm on fellowship next sem. and will have more time if I decide to pull the trigger

Are hundreds of thousands of GPUs cheaper than just ... hiring an intern?

If English were head final the childrens’ joke would be “why is 5 afraid of 6?”

Felicem diem natalem, Vergili!
Heu, Lucreti, eodem die, aliter iucundo, vobis es abreptus!

Does anyone know whether there is a PDF of Erasmus Schmid's edition of Pindar (Wittenberg 1616)? Both HathiTrust and Internet Archive are not showing it, unless I'm just searching badly

Utinam essem perissodactylus euungulatus!

All that said, I really think we ought to bring back &c., which is much cuter than etc.

Aeschylus's Oresteia, 458 BCE. Though I'd risk being proved wrong about things I've argued ...

It’s that time of year again! The Thesaurus linguae Latinae Summer School off to a lexicographic start

I can't explain why but this drawing immediately called to my mind the cover art of Henry Cow's "Western Culture"

me: I've made a device that stops you scrolling. you save hours out of your day

venture capitalist: what's it called

me: the codex

I had a professor who insisted that the verb be pronounced the same as the noun. She was a very good teacher and scholar, and I follow her in many respects, but on this I stand apart. (She did, however, perhaps irreparably drill into me never to begin a sentence with "However, ...")

"Real concord requires the co-operation of all parties in the states, clementia from those who are in a position to be vengeful, moderatio from those who have opportunities of power, modestia from those who have grievances to air." Ogilvie on Livy 3.64–5

Imagine having to talk with Socrates for 20 pages while you have a headache. No wonder Charmides turned evil.

Patres solliciti de summa rerum cum senatus cottidie esset iurgiis saepius terunt tempus quam consiliis

Studying the poet I do (Pindar), I have to use and read this word a lot, and I continually take great pleasure in mentally misinterpreting it for a moment before getting back to work.

Nec ipsi solum desponderant animos, sed contemni coepti erant a finitimis populis qui imperium ibi esse ubi non esset libertas indignabantur

deploratur in perpetuum libertas, nec vindex quisquam exsistit aut futurus videtur

Do you have an opinion on is vs. was in cases like these?

caedis causam ac principium quaeri, ut si quis memorem libertatis vocem aut in senatu aut apud populum misisset statim virgae securesque etiam ad ceterorum metum expedirentur

Does she love to chat so?

The least it could do is answer in hexameters

neque suum cuique ius modum faciebat sed virium spe et manu obtinendum erat quod intenderes