Swobodin v Brně

I managed today to spend only 1 € in Paris!
It’s crazy the prices over here, sometimes I think they are exaggerated : the cheapest good at the supermarket costs 2 €. Are Parisians satisfied with these prices?
With my Czech salary (very low comparing with other European salaries), I can even avoid cooking and I […]

Latin is a language,
As dead as can be.
First it killed the Romans,
And now it’s killing me.

 Full of contradictions, the Austrian eagle, symblyzing the Coat of Arms of Austria, has a crown, and takes a hammer and a sickle.
At first glaze, too many questions and answers suddently occure. Here were my propositions:
The crown means a royal state; that certainly means it has been set since the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Sickle and hammer, […]

Hic tibi ne qua morae fuerint dispendia tanti,
quamuis increpitent socii et ui cursus in altum
uela uocet, possisque sinus implere secundos,
quin adeas uatem precibusque oracula poscas
ipsa canat uocemque uolens atque ora resoluat.
illa tibi Italiae populos uenturaque bella
et quo quemque modo fugiasque ferasque laborem
expediet, cursusque dabit uenerata secundos.
haec sunt quae nostra liceat te uoce moneri.
 
Translation
Think it […]

Credo quia absurdum
“I believe it because it is absurd.” Tertullian
 
Audi, vide, tace, si tu vis vivere (in pace).
“Hear, see, be silent, if you wish to live (in peace).” Roman proverb
 
Fluctuat nec mergitur
“Shaken by the waves, but it will not sink”.
 
Ira furor brevis est.
Translation: “Anger is brief insanity” Horace, epistles I, 2, 62.
 
Non omnia possumus […]

Year in Roma used to start at March and end at January; and months were named as the following:

March: Martius: God of war.
April: Aprilis from aperire, “to open,” in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to “open”.
May: named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman […]

I could guess that people used to consider work as a torture thanks to … word etymology!
In fact, in the Middle Age, there used to be a torture instrument called “tripalium“, which consists of attaching the hands and feet of the condemned to 4 horses in order to quarter him.
Very cruel! but what does […]