Daily Archives: February 16, 2014

When it rains, it pours (Or: Don’t just do something, stand there!)

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

The Roman historian Tacitus, in his work Agricola in the context a passage that comments on the British isles’ multus umor terrarum caelique (‘the excessive moisture of the soil and of the atmosphere’) famously writes (Tac. Agr. 12): Caelum crebris … Continue reading →

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