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...Solution? Last week, with circulation past the 20,000 mark, Latin letters were pouring in to Acta's office at the rate of 200 an issue. Readers from six-year-olds to greybeards had the usual complaints. Poppaedius, said one, was "sordidum, plebeium . . . indecorum," and some fretted because a puzzle solution was omitted ("Quid? Nulla solutio...
Acta's lead articles usually retell the stories of such noble correspondents as Caesar and Cicero. But like any enterprising newspaper, Acta prints a good deal more than spot news. There are such circulation boosters as Poppaedius the Sailorman, an Acrostichis Duplex (double acrostic), an Aenigma Verbale (crossword puzzle), and occasionally something that looks like an ad. ("Putabat to gam suam candidam esse!" snorts one Senator about another, in apparent anticipation of the 20th Century catch line of Britain's Persil soap powder, "I thought my shirt was white...
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