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• the Latin familia must be translated as "household" rather than as "family", since neither classical Greek or Latin had a word corresponding to modern-day family?
• the species name of South Africa's Eastern Cape Blue Cycad (pictured), horridus, is Latin for 'sticking out' or 'prickly', after the plant's stiff, spiny leaflets?
• it took a musicologist 12 years to reconstruct the missing portions of the only copy of English Renaissance composer Martin Peerson's Latin motets so they could be published and recorded?
• the Latin poem Carmen Priami features an artificially archaic language as a reaction to the Hellenizing trend in Latin poetry led by Ennius?
• the Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton, a chartered middle school that requires students to learn three years of Latin and to study Literary classics, has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School?
• the name of the Azeri settlement Ramana, with natural gas vents where Zoroastrians still hold fire rites, might, according to conjecture, be derived from Roma, the Latin word for Rome?
• the main languages of Renaissance in Poland were Polish and Latin, and that the leading Polish poet of that period, Jan Kochanowski, is regarded as a great Slavic poet?
• the book Commentarii de Bello Civili, written by Julius Caesar, is staple reading among students of Latin?
• in the Latin poem De vetula, its supposed author Ovid renounces adultery?
• despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences?
• Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei's Dialogo from Italian into Latin?
• Joseph Breitenbeck was sued by a parish church for implementing the Vatican II reform of changing the language of the Mass from Latin to English?
• Jordan's Municipality of Salt derives its name from the Latin saltus meaning valley of trees as there is much greenery in the area?
• Lithuania's name was recorded in chronicles by its Latinized Slavic name form Litua, for the first time in 1009?
• Araneagryllus is named from a combination of the Latin aranea meaning "spider" and gryllus meaning "cricket"?
• Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin-Portuguese-Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum?
• ignorantia juris non excusat is Latin for the legal doctrine, "ignorance of the law is no excuse"?
• Johann Sebastian Bach wrote around 200 cantatas in German but only one, Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, in Latin?

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