Mammothretus is a word that designates bulky book, fat, heavy and of little value. The origin of this word is very curious. It comes from the Greek via Latin.
The Latin is one but the forms of talk it were many
Latin is a language that has maintained a remarkable unity as a written language for over 25 centuries. In many of these centuries, in reality along most of them, remained only as a written language.
The deep caves surprise and attract devout and believer men
Some natural areas, whether by their hidden beauty, by their silence or by their depth that sink in the bowels of the earth, seem to emanate a strong attraction to humans. Of these places the caves have a special force. Not surprisingly the man dwelt in them during the long night of their childhood as a species.
Nec nominetur (let it not even be named!)
There are issues, persons and situations for which it is better not to talk about them.
The first evidence of education of a deaf person
Well known is that infanticide and the exposure of children are admitted to practice in Greece and Rome either for religious reasons (disability as a punishment or consequence of the anger of the gods) or for reasons of political and cultural tradition.
Claudia made her wool (Claudia lanam fecit)
Certainly one of the first achievements of the men was making clothes for weather protection sometimes warm sometimes cold. In oldest archaeological deposits appear bone needles with a hole and slot on one end through which a fiber input, a strip of skin, a thread later. Making yarn of animal hair or wool or vegetable fiber was early and very important. It was a great human work.
Sandals or soles for horses (hiposoleae)
“Hiposolea” is a technical term used in archeology or ancient history to refer to the “sandals”, soles or protections that the ancient Greeks and Romans placed to the equine, horses or mules, in their hooves or paws
What does “leap-year” mean? Where does the term “twice sixth year” come from?
Translator´s Note that may help English- speaking readers to understand this text better: leap-year in Latin and modern Latin languages is called “bi sextum” year, like “twice sixth” year. This, as you will check later, is essential to be taken into account before starting to read this article in order to be able to understand it properly.
Cave canem
The eruption of the Vesuvius in the afternoon of the 24th of August of the year 79 (such an accurate date is in dispute) destroyed the lively and jovial city of Pompeii, near Naples (Neapolis = new city) and paradoxically preserved its ruins for centuries, until the year 1748.
Learning to count was not easy
The study of the language sometimes has to face questions or issues of difficult explanation that are lost in the mists of time.