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Archaeologists in Albania uncover a monumental Roman tomb with a rare bilingual inscription, shedding light on ancient ...
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed an interactive catalogue with the geolocation of cities in Spain and ...
Pope Benedict wants to revive the Latin mass in Roman Catholic worship. But what exactly does that mean?
Saint Jerome's Bible translation into Latin is called the Vulgate because it used common (or "vulgar") Latin. With Scripture in Latin, the Church adopted the Roman tongue for its mass everywhere.
So if you chance to hear an occasional “IO SATURNALIA!” exclaimed by your favorite Latin student during the week before Christmas, know that you are welcomed to commemorate the ancient Roman ...
I've long been fascinated by a quote that appears in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. It goes as follows: quote:The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian ...
Latin being split by the barbarians into so many different idioms, not understood by each other, differing both from the Church Latin and this from the Roman mother-stock, and other non-Latin ...
The most visible result of the Second Vatican Council so far has been the decision to translate the Roman Catholic Mass into vernacular languages. But now that scholars are engaged in translating ...