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Jacob's Stone of Scone. The lost tribes, say they, were captured and exiled by Sargon, King of Assyria, about 721 B.C. Assyrian records tell of a race called the "Khumri." These, according to the theory, were the Ten Tribes, who became the Greeks' Cimmerioi and the Romans...
Reader Boone (TIME, July 6), aiming with eyes closed, still hit the nail on the head. Archimedes did indeed "doodle with theory" when the Romans hit Syracuse ... He tirelessly doodled up military engines of such bewildering variety that the Roman marines broke and ran whenever a beam showed itself above...
"At Pompeii," said Archaeologist Maiuri, "we see the Romans' daily life. At Baiae we see how the Roman aristocracy lived and lusted."
Quintilian Dixit . . . According to Sweet, today's Latin teachers are guilty of one of two errors. Error 1 is that they try to do as the Romans did, falling for some advice from old Quintilian (1st century) that "the children should begin by learning to decline nouns and conjugate...
Error 2 goes to the opposite extreme: it sidetracks grammar in favor of sight reading. But the reading is usually made too easy, e.g., texts religiously follow a single sentence structure (subject-object-verb), until students get the idea that they can identify all words by their positions. Actually, the...