Alcibiades' lisp? (from Johnson at the Economist). Thence too, the suffixes -ikos and -ismos (the book rather than the example specifically).
Trivia about the lengths of Greek words inter alia. Please remember that the longest word in English is smiles, because there's a mile in the middle.
Latin and Greek vocab lists from a much respected former teacher.
Carl Sesar's Catullus 53 (on pp. 658-659) and 58 (at p. 11).
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Socrates and Soxibiades
Here is a reconstruction of a conversation between Alcibiades and Socrates. The accents are based on the best available evidence. The production values are not high.
~Typhoeus
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