Monthly Archives: December 2005

Coming Soon

Posted on Friday: December 30, 2005 by Michael Hendry

Starting Monday, I will continue my Ioci Antiqui series, begun five years ago and interrupted after two months by press of other work. For the first time in five years I have means, motive, and opportunity all at the same … Continue reading →

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I’m Back

Posted on Friday: December 30, 2005 by Michael Hendry

It took until Christmas to get the data off the hard drive of my deceased laptop, and until today to convince Hewlett-Packard that they do have to fix it, since I bought it a year ago today and it is … Continue reading →

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Pictolanche

Posted on Monday: December 19, 2005 by Michael Hendry

In checking my blog statistics yesterday, I found that I had gotten well over 100 hits from a link in The Scotsman last Monday. The author complains that the newspaper’s porn filters think that my Latin text of Juvenal’s 10th … Continue reading →

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More On Statius’ Somnus

Posted on Monday: December 19, 2005 by Michael Hendry

The most recent (though not very recent) post on Gabriel Laguna’s Tradición Clásica is on Statius, Silvae 5.4, the ‘Ode to Sleep’. One of first things I put on the web here was ‘Sonnets to Morpheus’, with texts of Statius’ … Continue reading →

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New Feature

Posted on Sunday: December 18, 2005 by Michael Hendry

That would be the PayPal button at the bottom of the left column. My laptop suddenly went catatonic on Tuesday, leaving me with no computer except my 8 1/2 year old Pentium II desktop. Until today, I wasn’t even able … Continue reading →

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Quotation Of The Day: Ben Jonson

Posted on Sunday: December 11, 2005 by Michael Hendry

Vulgi expectatio Expectation of the Vulgar is more drawne, and held with newnesse, then goodnesse; wee see it in Fencers, in Players, in Poets, in Preachers, in all, where Fame promiseth any thing; so it be new, though never so … Continue reading →

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