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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Also a fun use of the older indigenous Latin word, ensis (-is) for sword rather than the later word, probably imported, gladius (-ii). By the time our Latin literature really fills out, the loanword, gladius, had largely chased out ensis from all but poetry.

aug 25, 2025, 5:31 pm • 16 0

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