Also also, can I just say I'm impressed you're managing to whip up fannish enthusiasm for Livy of all writers? I still remember with a bone-deep shudder the time I wasted reading him in the original Latin back in my college days.
Two dozen words for slushy snow, is what we used to say, and then he passes up the interesting bit about the vinegar and the limestone in one sentence (a long one, but hey.)! The chemistry major in me was highly unimpressed :)
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Also also, can I just say I'm impressed you're managing to whip up fannish enthusiasm for Livy of all writers? I still remember with a bone-deep shudder the time I wasted reading him in the original Latin back in my college days.
Two dozen words for slushy snow, is what we used to say, and then he passes up the interesting bit about the vinegar and the limestone in one sentence (a long one, but hey.)! The chemistry major in me was highly unimpressed :)