Word: germanicus
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...Latin word pronounced lee-mace, meaning crossroad, limit, boundary, passage. Limes Germanicus, built in the First Century A.D. from the Rhine to the Danube, was a series of forts to keep the Teuton barbarians out of the Roman Empire...
...giantess and a cold-blooded socialite. Eventually he managed to divorce them both and enjoy a quiet interlude with a sensible mistress. Since he was not judged fit for public office, he studied history and planned to write the true story of his family. His father Drusus. his brother Germanicus both came to suspiciously sudden ends. When the good Augustus died (by his wife's poison) and was succeeded by the vicious Tiberius, Claudius lived in observant retirement. Under the rule of the madman Caligula he found himself in the unenviable position of middle-aged court butt...
which does not derive from some suggestion or hint in some classical authority, and some of the most surprising apparent inventions have historical foundation." Some of them: the haunting to death of Germanicus at Antioch; Caligula's bridging of the Bay of Baiae; Tiberius' ingenious cruelty to a fisherman he suspected of trying to poison him; the song Julius Caesar's veterans sang at his French triumph...
Despite all his obsessions and oppressions, Rome's citizens, soldiers and provincials admired Caligula. That was not his real name. His real name was Gaius Caesar. But, because he was charming as a little boy when he plopped in soldiers' boots along the Rhine with his father Germanicus, everyone called him, and con tinued to call him through his short life, Caligula. Caligula means "Little Boots...
Professor M. H. Morgan '81 will give an illustrated lecture about the ancient statues and busts of Tiberius, Germanicus and other characters in the first six books of the Annals of Tacitus at 12 o'clock in Harvard 1. This lecture is intended primarily for students in Latin 2, but is open to other members of the University...