Re: Locutorium Virtuale Scholae

"Caligula" <caius.caligula@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Rodericius a écrit :
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>> Mihi grata est illa "cryptographema" ad verbum angli*** "password"
>> significandum.
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> Est culinae latinum ! Password = signum or tessera.
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> "...alii Sabinum, summota per conscios centuriones turba, *signum* 
> more militiae petisse et Gaio "Iovem" dante..."
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> Caligula
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The usual word was simply "signum".
Caligula got murdered by Cassius Chaerea, commander of the Praetorian 
Guard, for continual wind-ups and insults. One of which was when he went 
to ask for the night's watchword (signum) Caligula would give him things 
like "Priapus" or "Venus"; and, of course, Chaerea would then have to 
pass it on to his subordinates!!

Ed

"*** placuisset Palatinis ludis spectaculo egressum meridie adgredi, 
primas sibi partes Cassius Chaerea tribunus cohortis praetoriae 
depoposcit, quem Gaius seniorem iam et mollem et effeminatum denotare 
omni probro consuerat et modo signum petenti "Priapum" aut "Venerem" 
dare, modo ex aliqua causa agenti gratias osculandam manum offerre 
formatam commotamque in obscaenum modum."
(Suetonius; Caligula)