A Greek word known from the Greek of a Latin speaker

Marcus Aurelius has κοινονοημοσύνη (1.16[.2]), which is a hapax in the TLG. Several Latin authors use ἀκοινονόητος, which is not found in any Greek text in the TLG. LSJ translates aptly through the medium of French lacking in 'savoir-faire' (Lat. sensus communis).

The 'cities' of Alexander the Great

Pliny the Elder, Natural History V 134/XXXVI, refers to an island called Cinaedopolis (Κιναιδό-πολις):

in Ceramico autem sinu Priaponesos, Hipponesos, Pserema, Lampsa, Aemyndus, Passala, Crusa, Pyrrhaeciusa, Sepiusa, Melano, paulumque a continente distans quae vocata est Cinaedopolis probrosis ibi relictis a rege Alexandro.

In the Ceramic Bay are Priaponesus, Hipponesus, Pserema, Lampsa, Aemyndus, Passala, Crusa, Pyrrhaeciusa, Sepiusa, Melano, and at only a small distance from the mainland the island named Cinaedopolis, because certain persons of disgraceful character were deposited there by Alexander the Great (Loeb translation).

Dear Sibyl: Pliny

Dear Sibyl,

I am so excited that you are answering letters again. I just love writing to my friends, fellow senators, clients, and, well, anyone really. I never tire of telling people what I have been doing: how I put up the money for a school in Comum; how I take my books with me when I go into the woods, and how when I am in the city I do not deign to associate with the plebs at the races.

But there's one, um, friend who does not write back any more. I feel used. He wanted to know all about my uncle and about the eruption of Vesuvius. I have written to him repeatedly, but he never replies. I should have known better than to get involved with someone so enigmatic. He would never come out a say what he meant, always clipped and chopping and changing between constructions. It was all snide and sarky comments, while he stared into the middle distance.

What am I to do?

-- GCP

Dear Pliny,

Sometimes, you just have to take NO for an answer.

-- Sibyl