... A bit of Latin from This was done today, quite beautifully, in Toronto. It is my second at this moment, and it's been a long time coming. In Medias Res From Homer's Ars Poetica: nec gemino bellum Troianum orditur ab ouo; semper ad euentum festinat et in medias res Or, in English (describing the epic poet): Nor does he begin the Trojan War from the double egg, but always he hurries to ...

『seven 』

... got everything there from all sorts of worlds, might find something from ours and a spell to get out. And before you say it, I'm not turning into Hermione. I promise - not like I could ever be as brilliant as her in the first place. Thanks to everyone that showed up for cake yesterday. We've still get a whole lot of it left, so if anyone's interested? Maybe we overdid Gemino a bit.

Sorting Semantics

... : 1444 Author’s Note :  I'm pretty sure that I may have stolen the spell hominem gemino from someone elses fic and for that I apologize - if I remembered who, I'd give ....   ****   It had all started with McGonagall explaining the body double conjuring charm, hominem gemino , explaining that although the word stem of hominem loosely translates to man, it worked equally well when ...

Title meme

... As it's from Crookshanks POV, it made sense to allude to that with the title. 5. Resurgam was originally tentatively titled Double Trouble, translated into Latin by one of Redivivus's reviewers as Gemino Perturbo. My beta very helpfully suggested these: Deus absconditus - a god hidden from man Lex talionis - the law of revenge Pallida mors - pale death Resurgam - I shall rise again The last ...