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When was a pair of Greek and Roman gods first identified?
I don't know if this is the oldest, but from Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Roman Antiquities 2.34 (first century BCE):
Μετὰ δὲ τὴν πομπήν τε καὶ θυσίαν νεὼν κατασκευάσας ὁ Ῥωμύλος ἐπὶ τῆς κορυφῆς τοῦ …
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Descriptions of aurora borealis
The best search terms I've found are trabs, -is and chasma, -atis. Literally meaning a wooden beam, trabs was applied by both Pliny and Seneca to something which might be the aurora (though L&S say it …
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Where did the Romans think Latin comes from?
Lucretius argued in Dē Rerum Nātūrā book 5 (lines 1041-1045) that language was innate; he had no explanation for why Greeks and Romans spoke differently.
proinde putare aliquem tum nomina distribuiss …
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Historicity doubted by Romans
Lucian of Samosata, a satirist writing in the second century CE, never had much regard for historians. His most famous work, the Alēthē Diēgēmata ("True Histories"), specifically mocks the sort of rid …
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Where did the Romans think Latin comes from?
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἀρχαιολογία (Roman Antiquities) 1.90, explains that Latin was actually a dialect of Greek, corrupted by contact with European barbarians:
Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ φωνὴν μ …
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Where did the Romans think Latin comes from?
For one last answer, it seems another author has quoted a source no less Roman than Cato the Elder himself (though Cato's original doesn't survive):
ὁ Ῥωμύλος, ἢ οἱ κατὰ αὐτόν, δείκνυται κατ' ἑκεῖνο …
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Where did the Romans think Latin comes from?
For yet another account, more pure-Roman than Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Quintilian (1.6) seems to agree that Latin is close to Aeolian:
Etymologia, quae verborum originem inquirit, a Cicerone dicta …
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Good examples of common gender nouns
Canis, canis, m/f
This is the archetypal common-gender noun, referring to a male or female dog.
Vergil, Georgics 1.469
Tempore quamquam illo tellus quoque et aequora ponti / obscenaeque canes inportu …
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Good examples of common gender nouns
Bōs, bovis, m/f
This is the usual type of common-gender noun.
In the feminine, it means "cow".
Livy 1.7.6:
Inde cum actae boves quaedam ad desiderium, ut fit, relictarum mugissent, reddita inclusarum …
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How to curse someone in Latin?
The best-known type of curse is called a dēfixio, literally "binding", calqued from Greek κατάδεσμος. The word itself is more modern; while Roman dēfixiōnes do tend to use the verb dēfīgō, the noun wa …
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Is the Abrahamic god ever named in Classical-era Latin or Greek?
The oldest Greek transcription I've found is from Diodorus of Sicily (The Library of History I.94.2):
παρὰ δὲ τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις Μωυσῆν τὸν Ἰαὼ ἐπικαλούμενον θεόν
Among the Jews, Moses [attributed his la …
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