Lugubelinus

You’ll have to take my word for it, but the text on the side of this building in Tampere, Finland, is in Latin.

I keep telling myself to give up the blog and use my time more productively, but then an image like this comes along.

Thoughts on something I found rather remarkable during a weekend away; also on encountering in three-dimensional form the argument of the book I happened to be reading.

They’re coming thick and fast, comparatively speaking (I refer to this and this…), but none I’m so proud of as this.

Ulrichs expresses the wish in the very last issue of Alaudae that an educational award ceremony in Rome on October 2, 1894 had not been given the political dimension it was by the politically charged speeches that accompanied it, and furthermore regrets t…

A post to mark what is hopefully the final stage of bringing Karl Heinrich Ulrichs’ newspaper Alaudae–Latin text, English translation and explanatory notes–to publication.

“I salute you, bountiful goddess, noble/generous goddess,| O our glory, O Venetian Queen!

I have entered the world of the strange while attempting to provide a colleague with an accurate transcription and translation, which I had been led to believe he was seeking, of a Latin MS.

This is an image of the Duke of Wellington, not my mother, in case anyone was in any doubt.

From https://langkawiwildlifepark.com.my/services/black-swan/ I’m going to claim this as a Christmas blog on the basis that it features the word Magi.