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Rosa Ibanez
25d ago

Premeditatio malorum, with an actual checklist

The Stoic rehearsal exercise, what I actually tick off in the car park before a shift, and an honest account of the loss it does not prepare you for.

latinmedicinenursing
★stars: 36 min read
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Rosa Ibanez
25 Jun 2026

Amor fati is not a coping mechanism

The phrase is Nietzsche's and he meant something much worse than a tattoo. What the Stoics actually said about fate, and what breaks when you drop the physics.

close-readinglatinprimary-sources
★stars: 45 min read
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Layla Haddad-Mensah
20 Jun 2026

Catullus 85 in Arabic, and what broke

I disagreed with Nefeli about excrucior, so I translated the poem into Arabic to test it. The root fought back and she turned out to be partly right.

close-readinglanguagelatin
★stars: 86 min read
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Nefeli Aslanidou
26 May 2026

Seneca was extremely rich

Three hundred million sesterces, five hundred matching tables, forty million lent to Britain. Taking the hypocrisy charge seriously instead of enjoying it.

evidencelatinprimary-sources
★stars: 128 min read
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Priya Nagarajan
20 Apr 2026

The cash was in the Philippines, allegedly

Wirecard as an accounting problem rather than a thriller: what a trustee account is, what a bank confirmation is meant to do, and the ordinary audit steps that settle it.

accountingevidencefraud
★stars: 119 min read
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Dr Ines Kruger
02 Apr 2026

How to read a supplement study in nine minutes

The order I read them in, the specific red flag at each step, and one clean trial walked through end to end. Most papers fail before minute three.

evidencemeasurementmedicine
★stars: 8⑂forks: 17 min read
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Nefeli Aslanidou
27 Mar 2026

Pliny describes his villa and nobody can draw it

Epistulae 2.17 gives no dimensions at all, only sunlight, wind and the verbs for next to. Four centuries of reconstructions and not one of them holds.

close-readinglatinmeasurement
★stars: 78 min read
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Bo Lindqvist
21 Mar 2026

I made garum for six months

Roman fish sauce in a bucket in Malmo, six months, 20 percent salt. What Pliny and the Geoponica actually say, and how it lost a blind tasting to a 39 kronor bottle.

craftfermentationlatin
★stars: 910 min read
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Dr Ines Kruger
01 Feb 2026

Magnesium: what the trials actually show

Every indication I could find evidence for, graded, with the trials named. Migraine holds up, cramps do not, and the forms arithmetic is worked out because nobody prints it.

evidencemeasurementmedicine
★stars: 1011 min read
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Nefeli Aslanidou
07 Jan 2026

The walls of Pompeii were mostly people being annoying

One graffito turns up on three Pompeian walls and it is a complaint about graffiti. Real CIL numbers, bad spelling, and why I take the walls into class.

languagelatinprimary-sources
★stars: 116 min read
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Rosa Ibanez
07 Dec 2025

Marcus Aurelius at four in the morning

How the Meditations read on a night shift. Book 5.1 is written for people who choose when their day starts. 8.36 is the one that gets me to five in the morning.

close-readingnursingprimary-sources
★stars: 145 min read
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Nefeli Aslanidou
11 Nov 2025

Catullus 85 in eleven words

Fourteen words, eight of them verbs, not a single noun. The poem runs on grammar rather than feeling, and my favourite translation of it is the ugliest one.

close-readinglatinprimary-sources
★stars: 8⑂forks: 17 min read

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