Really slow news day, and the ClassiCarnies appear to be relaxing too ...

Curculio marks Memorial Day with various versions, Latin and Greek, of Simonides' epitaph for the Spartans at Thermopylae ...

Bestiaria Latina has some more proverbial comparisons ...

At About.com, N.S. Gill is writing about Roman burials ...

Laudator tells us about old men via Aristotle ...

Blogcritics has a review of the DVD version of I, Claudius ...

There's another column by Cicero at HNN ...

Hobbyblog has a nice Salonina/Tyche ...

There are a bunch of updated 'Ancient and Modern' columns at the Friends of Classics site ...

Another Aeneid translation has hit the ewaves ... E. Fairfax Taylor's rhyming couplets ... (it gets tedious rather quickly) ...


... and if anyone cares, I've noticed a pile of 'suspicious' addresses subscribing to the Classics Central forum in the past couple of weeks ... can't help but feel that something is afoot ...