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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Varro"”.

  1. Opus Ignotum

    … line of an otherwise lost work preserved in Varro’s De lingua latina: “With words destroy him.” Not even Ennius’ context did Varro record, only the imperative that an unknown man be crushed by language. But for the transgressive, derogatory, or slanderous speech which might incite destructive …

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  2. The evolution of honeycomb

    … In 36BC, the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro first proposed the “honeycomb conjecture,” in which he postulated that bees build their comb using hexagons because it is the shape that requires the least amount of material to divide space into equal portions. Since this time, honeycomb has …

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  3. De Lingua Sabina: A Reappraisal of the Sabine Glosses

    … of a personal obsession of the Republican author Varro, in whose work many Sabine glosses survive, and (b) the Sabine glosses are true remnants of a single language of which little or no epigraphic evidence has survived. By using the neogrammarian observation that sound-change is regular and …

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