I do not know whether Fronto should be known as the first nitpicker of language, but as tutor to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, I do not know whether Fronto should be known as the first ...

Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant: “Hail, Caesar. We who are about to die salute you.” In Longfellow’s hands, however, it comes from old men, attending the 50th anniversary of their graduation, to ...

“Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant! ” (Hail Caesar, we’re greeting you before our death!) might have been the last sentence uttered by Joop, Indonesia’s cultural gladiator, before he died ...

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