Thursday, August 05, 2004

camping

Castra cras ponebo!

...although, my camp won't be
an encampment fortified by a ditch (fossa) and a mound (agger) surmounted by palisades (vallum),

the literal definition of castra, -orum n. in Cassell's Latin Dictionary. (The singular castrum, -i n. is simply a castle or fort.)

Skip a few entries up in the dictionary and we find the infinitely more useful word: castoreum, -i n., the aromatic secretion obtained from the beaver

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