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What Does It Mean?
A Latin or Greek word in the phrase it comes from, and four meanings. Easy mode shows the English with the word left out.
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Match the Phrase
Five phrases of the original and their English, shuffled. Pair each original with the English that renders it.
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Close or Free?
One passage and three English versions: word for word, a century old, and plain English today. Which is which?
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Sermon
The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage
Cyprian, c. 252–253, Carthage, Roman North Africa (modern Tunisia)
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Plague of Cyprian (c. 249–270)Christianity
Literature
The Dream: a journey to the Moon
Johannes Kepler, Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634, Frankfurt
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Imagining space travelAstronomy and the skyStories and novels
History
The Plague at Athens, and Pericles Answers the Athenians
Thucydides, after 430 BCE, Athens
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Plague of Athens (430–426 BCE)Doctors and medical ideasSpeeches and edicts