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Sunday, January 30, 2022

Knitting -- alterations

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Some of you may not have been able to unsee the Fair Isle jumper I made with scraps  (although I did get a compliment on it from a fellow kn...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- where does the negation go?

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I have more conditionals for you ahead, as well as posts about negation drumming into you that Goodwin’s material is in part incomplete and ...
Friday, January 21, 2022

Fact-Checking the Torah -- the ants

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I am constantly impressed by how much contact Talmudic rabbis had with agriculture and their environment. A statement in Mishnah Kilayim 1:4...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Gibbon -- the urban legend, pt. 6

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So the big thing I showed last time is that when Gibbon gave only part of the citations about the Mithridatic war, he covered up evidence th...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- ei mi idiom

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Book I section 17. You should know most of the words here. Ef’ is epi ; learn it. τύραννοί τε ὅσοι ἦσαν ἐν ταῖς Ἑλληνικαῖς πόλεσι,τὸ ἐφ ᾽ ...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Knitting -- scraps

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So I dragged out a box of leftover fingering weight yarn and made five pairs of socks, and still had leftovers. Just not enough leftovers in...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- pros

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Book I section 16. This is a shortie and I have a preposition for you to learn. ἐπεγένετο δὲ ἄλλοις τε ἄλλοθι κωλύματα μὴ αὐξηθῆναι, καὶ Ἴ...