Quiet a.m. emailwise ... must be a server or two down somewhere ...

N.S. Gill tells us about abbreviations in inscriptions ...

Glaukopis gives us some reasons to learn Latin (including a Get Fuzzy cartoon which I appear to have missed) ...

Irene Hahn looks at Gibbon's comments on Constantinople ...

Eric saw Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day on Saturday -- doyen (why did I think that word was Japanese in origin?) ...