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(Nimis benignus eris, Prime! Ego modo barbarus sum. Gratias tibi. Credo aliter de meis verbis alii iudicabunt!)

Latine loqui est quod necessito ego. Bona ratio. Scio linguam meam barbaram esse sed propter hoc ipsum volo practicare.

Salvete omnes -

In my home we celebrate the Lunar New Year more than the occidental one, which allows me, now, in mid-February, to wish everyone the best for the annus lunaris, qui est modo Sinense astrologico Canis Annus, the Year of the Dog.

Gratias tibi, Iacobule. I'll check the site. I recalled talk of Greek ways with wine, should have realized the Romans would follow suit. The modern American custom with vinum is quite different.

Gratias tibi, Horati. I thought that there had to be a lot of mention. Perhaps less talk of a question of sobriety versus potation, since wine was so universal in the ancient mediterranean?

Returning from a farewell luncheon replete with wine, I'm curious to ask of those better read than I - What had the Romani to say of Bacchus's gift and its employment? What famous chapters are there about the glories, or the practical employment, or the villainy of wine?

And also, geography is not necessarily race, viz white (not black) South Africans, or white (not red) North Americans. I forget the immediate circumstances of Severus's birth (if known) but at that time weren't Romans still presiding over North Africa?