Ciceronianus; causidicus

The Milky Way, the galaxy of which our world is but a tiny part, is itself only a tiny part of the unimaginably vast universe in which we...

The quote above is from one of Shakespeare's lesser-known (to me, at least) plays, Troilus and Cressida , and is brought to mind by....

Holy Mother Church, or Sancta Mater Ecclesia in Latin.  The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, just as it's said, also in Lati...

The word "pagan" is derived from the Latin  paganus, which was used to refer to someone from the countryside, someone rustic, u...

The cartoon above is one of a series drawn by James Thurber, entitled The War Between Men and Women.  The title of this post is a modific...