A better ‘Simon Says’ for Latin Classes

I’ve never used Simon Says in my Latin classes because I’ve never liked the Latin it tends to produce. The teacher says something like ‘Simon dīcit “

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The original Roman constitution (Mommsen 1.5)

Mommsen continues to reveal something of his personal feelings when talks about such things as nature furnishing the Romans with the perfect order for

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A modern ‘ancient’ Greek dialect discovered?

This has been making the rounds: a remote, Muslim community has been found speaking (and notably not writing) a dialect of Greek apparently quite clos

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