Those readers around 30 years old or so will be disappointed in this post, I’m sure. Manumission is a club night in Ibiza – still going at the time of writing, I believe. The idea of it was “anyone in Manumission is free to do or be whatever they choose as long as it does [...]

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A sybarite was originally a person who inhabited Sybaris – a Greek city in the south of Italy, situated on the Gulf of Tarentum, and part of a group of Greek cities on [...]

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Having given Greek words a good airing recently, it’s time to take a look at those wacky Romans. The civilization that brought us viticulture, road networks, aqueducts and underfloor heating also fostered the [...]