Ericbolax
eribolax.bsky.social
Ericbolax
@eribolax.bsky.social
Classicist, linguist, reader. PhD student. Rich in glebe. Torn between Juppiter and Apollo.
Not!
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I just say "Agnes and Her Contraption"
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I thought the Mick Jagger song was Wild Horses?
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My students last year enjoyed Cicero's explanation for why one says "nobiscum" rather than "cum nobis"
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I'm rescued by the fact that a) I don't at the moment have a PC so I need to think hard before deciding if I want one, b) this gives me an excuse to wait for various tweaks and fixes, and c) I'm on fellowship next sem. and will have more time if I decide to pull the trigger
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Are hundreds of thousands of GPUs cheaper than just ... hiring an intern?
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Aeschylus's Oresteia, 458 BCE. Though I'd risk being proved wrong about things I've argued ...
August 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I can't explain why but this drawing immediately called to my mind the cover art of Henry Cow's "Western Culture"
July 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I had a professor who insisted that the verb be pronounced the same as the noun. She was a very good teacher and scholar, and I follow her in many respects, but on this I stand apart. (She did, however, perhaps irreparably drill into me never to begin a sentence with "However, ...")
July 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Studying the poet I do (Pindar), I have to use and read this word a lot, and I continually take great pleasure in mentally misinterpreting it for a moment before getting back to work.
June 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Nec ipsi solum desponderant animos, sed contemni coepti erant a finitimis populis qui imperium ibi esse ubi non esset libertas indignabantur
June 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM