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THREAD #PopeFrancis gives rare interview to #Serbia semi-official daily @PolitikaOnline. But as "Francisko", a name that in Serbian evokes sombreroed Mexican bandits rather than @Pontifex. Who is responsible for this #Vatican PR disaster? None other than Papal Nuntius to Serbia/2
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2/Archbishop Luciano Suriani who personally interfered into a linguistic/cultural issue in language/culture that he does not know or understand.
When elected, every #Pope takes a regnal name that is always in #Latin, official language of #HolySee. Since time immemorial every /3
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Thing about watching court hearings is you get to brush up on your #Latin. Intel lawyer just rolled out "ultra petita" reference. That's to say a court can't do more than it's being asked to do en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_ultra… #Curia #EtTuBrute #CaveCanem #AmoAmasAmat #VeniVidiVinci
Milites in horto gaudebant. Stercorem pro cerebro habes.
.@EU_Commission lawyer has just rolled out 'reduction ad absurdum' -- one of my personal favourites.
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📣 Exceptional discovery from the excavations at the Curia-Comitium (#RomanForum) [THREAD ⬇️]

An underground chamber has re-emerged next to the Curia-Comitium complex with a tuff sarcophagus of about 1.40 m in length, associated with a circular element, probably an altar. Underground burial chamberTuff sarcophagus of about 1.40 m in length
@dariofrance @museitaliani @_MiBACT @alfonsrusso @rogueclassicist @pompei79 @DariusAryaDigs The context situated below the staircase leading to the #Curia, built in the 1930s, is preserved for its symbolic meaning by the Curia above and coincides with what the sources hand down as the 'post rostra' point (behind the republican Rostra).
@dariofrance @museitaliani @_MiBACT @alfonsrusso @rogueclassicist @pompei79 @DariusAryaDigs Here's where the place of burial of #Romulus is located (according to Varro by the scholiasts of Horace, Epod. XVI). No coincidence that the #LapisNiger, the black stone indicated as a funereal place related to the death of Romulus, is located in axis with the underground chamber
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