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Dictionaries are Fun <3
Feb. 11th, 2010 01:19 pmThe other day, I was doing my Latin homework and found something with interesting... implications? subtext? in my Latin dictionary. (Yes, dictionaries have subtext... IDK)
From The Bantam New College Latin and English Dictionary Third Edition by John C. Traupman, PH.D:
contubernium -(i)i n sharing the same tent; wartime friendship; army tent; serving as a junior staff officer; concubinage; marriage (among slaves); hovel (of a slave couple)
Surely I'm not the only one who would think of Roman soldiers having a little bit of fun in their tents, developing "wartime friendships." Sigh~ I... I think of weird things sometimes... And even if they did do that, it probably wasn't romantic at all, but I want to make it out to be.
I am turning into a very strange fan of history. ^^
From The Bantam New College Latin and English Dictionary Third Edition by John C. Traupman, PH.D:
contubernium -(i)i n sharing the same tent; wartime friendship; army tent; serving as a junior staff officer; concubinage; marriage (among slaves); hovel (of a slave couple)
Surely I'm not the only one who would think of Roman soldiers having a little bit of fun in their tents, developing "wartime friendships." Sigh~ I... I think of weird things sometimes... And even if they did do that, it probably wasn't romantic at all, but I want to make it out to be.
I am turning into a very strange fan of history. ^^
