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Re: Digest Number 628 |
| From: |
"Dux Bellorum" dux@-------- |
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:19:34 -0000 |
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Salve salve !
I am lost, who is Tink ?
Valete
P.V. Aurelianus
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From: <--------ef="/post/nov----------------otectID=137028113185078198113149000077114253071048139" >Cy--------Rose@--------</--------;
To: <a href="mailto:novaroma@--------" >novaroma@--------</a>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: [novaroma] Digest Number 628
> From: <--------ef="/post/nov----------------otectID=137028113185078198113149000077114253071048139" >Cy--------Rose@--------</--------;
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> Salve Omnes.......
>
> Exscuse me for being snoopy....But is there another Tink??
> I thought I was the only one.....
>
> Claudia Iulia Caesaria Maria Avalonia
>
> >
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I'm baaaaack! :) |
| From: |
"Tinnekke Bebout" tinnekke@-------- |
| Date: |
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:20:46 GMT |
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Salvete Omnes
I read the archive from yesterday and I was overwhelmed. Thank you for
welcoming me back so warmly.
Valete utque Avete
Lucina Iunia Cypria
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| Subject: |
Enduring Saxons at the Midwinter Solstice |
| From: |
"Nicolaus Moravius" n_moravius@-------- |
| Date: |
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:38:29 PST |
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Quiritibus, plurimam salutem!
Querit Aurelianus:
>What recipes are recommended for a theme gathering
>at the Saxon Solstice we have to endure?
>It would be nice to hear any suggestions.Practical
>ones though, mind.
- Hmm. I thought the (midwinter) solstice was everybody's, not just for
Saxons. Anyway, here on the Saxon Shore around Clausentum, our local
Foederati Germanici are a friendly bunch, they like to eat and drink a lot,
and so do we. Their Yule is our Dies Natalis Solis Invictus, so we have no
problem at all in celebrating together. The only aspect of endurance that
comes into it is our having to try and drink the barbari under the mensa
first, for the honour of the Empire :-).
The following is not especially a traditional Roman drink for midwinter, but
it's excellent in cold weather and beats an ox-horn of mead every time...
MULSUM
1 bottle cheap wine (red or white, but use a dry one)
1-2 bay leaves
1 date, its flesh very finely chopped, its stone roasted for 10 minutes
1 pinch saffron (large)
5 oz. honey
Half teaspoonful black pepper
1 pinch mastic (optional)
Warm the wine in a pan and blend in the honey. Grind all the other
ingredients and add, stirring well. Bring to a simmer and immediately take
off the heat and let stand for 24 hours. Strain liquor and serve at blood
heat.DO NOT ADD WATER!
Apart from that, the only traditional fare I can think of is the gifts of
sweetmeats (dried or honey-candied fruits) given to friends and family at
Ianualia as a good omen that life will be sweet all through the coming year
(Ianus himself is offered the same). Gifts of money were also given for a
prosperous new year - so chocolate coins are a nice, modern combination of
the two ideas, to my mind. Any other ideas, anyone?
Valete bene,
Vado.
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| Subject: |
on-line tagged documents |
| From: |
"Chad Kieffer" ckieffer@-------- |
| Date: |
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:15:24 -0600 |
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Salvete!
I've put tagged versions of the extant books of Tacitus' "Annales"
online -- since Tacitus' works are notable absent from Perseus Online.
I've also put a tagged version of Book 1 (so far) of Apuleius' "Golden
Ass" online. The English translation frame is a link to the the English
Server's Martin Guy's online version of Adlington's 1566 translation. If
anyone has a pre-1921 (because of U.S. copyright law) translation of the
"Golden Ass" that is better that is in electronic format (or if you are
willing to scan the work and run it through OCR software), PLEASE tell me,
because the Adlington translation uses very archaic English, very loose
translations, and strange layouts (verses are even often broken up in the
middle between chapters). There were several translations made into English
around the turn of the century.
The location of the "Annales" is:
<a href="http://www.razorbackroad.com/~ckieffer/annalesmain.html" target="_top" >http://www.razorbackroad.com/~ckieffer/annalesmain.html</a>
The location of Book 1 of the "Golden Ass" is:
<a href="http://www.razorbackroad.com/~ckieffer/goldenassmain.html" target="_top" >http://www.razorbackroad.com/~ckieffer/goldenassmain.html</a>
Valete!
C Cordius Symmachus
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