Bayla ~ bellaquill ~ quillful ~ Ianthis

If only it weren't during CAMWS alas...

Jam of the Day #12: Paper!

The five crochet party members lined up together: rabbit gladiator, magpie priest, mouse thief, turtle bard, snake doctor

A small green crochet snake coiled around a wooden staff. Tied to the staff is some string hanging a tuft of wool and a small red pouch.

GENUS: Anguis MUNUS: Medicus VALET.... CORPORE: 0 MENTE: +2 FACUNDIA: +1

~Anguis Baculī~

Placet: ēsse mūrēs, mentīrī, quiētē serpere
Displicet: animālia magna, cultrī magnī, anguēs aliī

A small crochet Eurasian magpie wearing a bright yellow veil and holding a Roman lituus.

GENUS: Pīca MUNUS: Sacerdōs VALET.... CORPORE: +1 MENTE: +1 FACUNDIA: +1

~Gāius Antōnius Geminī~

Placet: auxilium ferre, amīcōs novōs cognōscere, volāre
Displicet: frāter, hominēs quī mentiuntur, piscēs ēsse
Vult: sacerdōtem esse bonum

A small grey crochet rabbit holding a trident with a dagger at her side

GENUS: Cunīculus MUNUS: Gladiātrix VALET.... CORPORE: +1 MENTE: 0 FACUNDIA: 0

~Victōria~

Placet: epistulae ā familiā, cibus sine carne
Displicet: Calceī, toga, alia vestīmenta
Vult: mala animālia pulsāre

A small crochet green and yellow turtle. He holds a miniature kithara with painted eyes decorating it.

GENUS: Testūdō MUNUS: Poēta VALET.... CORPORE: 0 MENTE: +1 FACUNDIA: +2

~Iānus~

Placet: aqua, fābulās nārrāre, hieme dormīre
Displicet: ignis, pugnāre
Vult: librum scrībere, discipulōs litterās docēre

A small brown crochet mouse wearing a blue cloak and a belt with a sword.

GENUS: Mūs MUNUS: Fūr VALET.... CORPORE: +1 MENTE: +2 FACUNDIA: 0

~Agentus~

Placet: glōria, dignitās, vīs
Displicet: quī glōriam spernunt
Vult: novam rem persequī ut melior rēs pūblica īnstituātur.

I assume diēs is out because you have already used it? and rēs?

One thing I do is have them highlight/mark in a passage they read what they are unsure about, what they had to look up (these are open book), what they revised after looking stuff up. A way for you to get inside their heads to assess progress (different from some other uses of exams/assessments)

Jam of the day #4: Cherry

Today's Jam of the Day: Dragonfruit!

Yay! It'll be fun to have you at WashU. Though we're a bit low on numismatists at the moment (a couple years ago we had more grad students into it who have since graduated)

I like CAMWS and will be there (this year and next). But I don't know how folks there are about Palestine in particular

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

習作　吟遊詩人

he also has a rewritten streamlined morpheus parser for his library and inflected dictionary search (and a simple UI for anybody to report typo fixes in the dictionary digitizations

Morcus.net has a user friendly Latin corpus search tool that allows for searching by grammatical category, lemma, proximity, etc. Currently his corpus is only at 2 million words, but he is working to expand it to a full mirror of perseus + other open access corpora

https://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/presse/mitteilungen/28168/index.html?fbclid=IwdGRleAPo0f9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeM6lR1l1jw2j-H-IlJkLsiKy8F2N7Nvrs7SuvFMWpdb5S3BL5WdesziRcfYE_aem_CzxeJCiy645UVAlM5bH7Dg

🚨 In Cologne (Germany), archaeologists have discovered a wooden Roman harbor bank protection structure on the Rhine side. 🪵 www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-...

USPS postage stamp. A detail of one if the story blocks in Harriet Power’s Pictorial quilt. Against a navy cotton background, this block features two abstract human figures appliquéd in cream colored cotton with arms raised, an abstract donkey figure in brown patterned fabric, and two ducks in pale cotton. There are also appliqué flowers and an appliqué sun using circular and triangular pieces of pale fabric. The bottom of the Forever Stamp bears the name HARRIET POWERS in all caps. From the USPS website: Four new stamps honor quiltmaker Harriet Powers (1837–1910), a formerly enslaved woman who stitched works that are celebrated as masterpieces of American folk art and storytelling. Just two of her quilts are known to survive. Born October 29, 1837, on a plantation near Athens, Georgia, the future quilter is believed to have learned to sew as a child. At 18, she married Armstead Powers, an enslaved farmhand. Eventually they would have nine children. After Emancipation, they bought four acres nearby in Sandy Creek, Georgia, where they raised cotton and vegetables. Along the way, Harriet Powers began creating quilts, and completed at least five. The two we know are referred to as story quilts because each of their panels features a pieced, appliquéd, and embroidered scene from a familiar story drawn from local lore or the Bible.

USPS postage stamp depicting a story blocks from Harriet Powers quilt. On a light brown fabric background, animal figures are secured using the hand stitched appliqué technique. The figures are abstract but appear to depict rabbits, deer, and coyote or perhaps foxes in a variety of natural colors and fabric patterns, from plain cream cotton to brown and white polkadot patterned fabric. The bottom of the Forever Stamp bears the name HARRIET POWERS in all caps.

USPS postage stamp depicting a story block from Harriet Powers 1898 quilt. Against a beige cotton background, abstract human and animal appliqué figures, with a rudimentary sun and moon figure in scraps of fabric.

USPS postage stamp depicting a story block from Harriet Powers 1898 quilt. Against a navy cloth background, abstract appliqué human figures that appear to be dancing (arms are raised and there’s a sense of movement in how the figures are arranged/placed on the fabric. Above the figures appear to be abstract shooting star symbols in an orangey brown fabric. The bottom of the Forever Stamp bears the name HARRIET POWERS in all caps.

The new Harriet Powers USPS postage stamps are so moving. Featuring details from formerly enslaved Powers’s “Pictorial Quilt” of 1898, I’m so glad these stamps will bring her work & life story to more people, especially when so much Black history is being erased from the public realm right now 💌

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

"Ab oppidō Tūsculō ad vīllam Iūliī nōn longa via est." (real ones know...)

the Charles, but I have a closer connection to my undergrad home river, the Kokosing. I miss her so much....

Renaissance to Runway and the Ann Hamilton exhibits at the CMA right now are absolutely banging

Excited to release the new minimal-computing Pausanias Reader in Progress: pausanias.opencommentaries.org/about (If you find an empty comment, that's the "in Progress" part)

Enormous thanks to @eltonteb.bsky.social and the rest of Digital Periegesis team for their help with named entity linking!

I never got to meet him in person, but he passed one several of his books, including his Greek Septuagint, to me through Prof. Hahnemann. A wonderful man who shaped the Greek program which produced me

it's nice to see support for logeion in the wild

I really enjoy this! It reminded me how many traditional songs there actually are that I know but forget about. And gave me some new ones. The lack of Safam is sad though. Judah Maccabee is an all time fave and I love Candles of the Menorah but I don't think that one is online

I am so prepared to be a hater but.... warp weighted loom spotted!!!! I will forgive them the vikingness of the details

wow so cool.... makes me want to start one... but I am probably not well situated for it

More Poems XXXVII I did not lose my heart in summer's even, When roses to the moonrise burst apart: When plumes were under heel and lead was flying, In blood and smoke and flame I lost my heart. I lost it to a soldier and a foeman, A chap that did not kill me, but he tried; That took the sabre straight and took it striking, And laughed and kissed his hand to me and died.

You may think you go hard, but do you go A.E. Housman hard?