Verba Horati

After #MyFirstLoeb (Bennett's Horace, btw) can we get #MyFirstOxfordRed trending? goo.gl/9a2eWr

Not bad, but no Horace or Catullus? Even in the also-rans? twitter.com/classicpenguin…

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

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

@sonofspeke @JonathanHsy @Peter_Bridgman @holland_tom Hoi barbaroi?

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

Archaeologists To Ben Carson: Ancient Egyptians Wrote Down Why The Pyramids Were Built - Forbes forbes.com/sites/kristina…

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

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

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

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

Another lovely image to celebrate Ovid's birthday:

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

Classical Latin texts amount to only 0.01% of all surviving Latin. So much to read, so little time goo.gl/pc6sPm

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

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

@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.

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

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

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