A sneak peak at the decadence to come!
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Sea Salted Fluffernutter Filled Oatmeal Cookies and Cicero's First Philippic
Today we read a passage from Cicero's first Philippic, discussed Cicero's role in the triumviral period, and ate some delightful fluffernutter-oatmeal cookies made by Lisa.
The cookies. Recipe taken from Bakeaholic Mama.
Lisa and Dr. G trying out the cookies. Dr. G approves.
Rhiannon contemplating the nature of fluff.
Fluff. One of the many reasons Ash is happy to have made it to Friday.
We also read Latin, of course. Despite Cicero's undeniably well-written prose, we have come to a consensus as a class that Cicero was kind of an obnoxious guy.
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The Fluff Papyrus
Alternate ending to Cornelius Nepos' Life of Atticus, from the recently deciphered Fluff Papyrus.
Sic cum biduum fluffae se farsisset, subito febris decessit leviorque morbus esse coepit. Tamen propositum nihilo setius peregit et fluffas continuo edebat. Itaque die quinto, postquam id consilium inierat, pridie Kalendas Aprilis Cn. Domitio C. Sosio consulibus, decessit. Elatus est in lecticula cum poculo fluffae, ut ipse praescripserat, sine ulla pompa funeris, comitantibus omnibus bonis, maxima vulgi frequentia. Sepultus est iuxta viam Appiam ad quintum lapidem in monumento Q. Caecilii, avunculi sui. Poculum eius fluffae cum eo sepultum est (Att. 22.3-4)
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Check out the newest member of my household
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