Nova Britannia Remote General Meeting: Martius MMDCCLXXVI
Attendees: Sibylla Ambrosia Fulvia
Aulus Iulius Paterculus
Aula Tullia Scholastica
Marcus Quintius Clavus
Numerius Octavius Astronomus
As we joined the
meeting one or two at a time, Sibylla, who had joined first, inquired what we
had been up to lately.
I reported typing
up some of the vocabulary for our next Latin meeting.
Scholastica
mentioned that she had processed a number of citizenship applications while her
Latin class was on recess and persuaded one of her best students and his wife
to join Nova Roma, as well as another acquaintance in Ukraine contacted with
the help of Sarmatians affiliated with Arx Mercatura. Sibylla suggested that Scholastica's
friends would be welcome to join our remote meetings, although Scholastica
pointed out that the time difference might be an issue. (They are six hours
ahead of us. Ukraine may be seven hours ahead,
as is Finland.)
Octavius told of
his recent trip to gaming convention PAX East (https://east.paxsite.com/) and
shared photos of the many Roman-/Classical-themed board games he'd found there,
included one he'd purchased. Sibylla invited him to bring this to the next in-person
event.
We discussed
ancient board games and the possibility of playing them together, perhaps even
remotely via a website we found with a brief search, Locus Ludi (https://locusludi.ch/play-ancient-online-games/).
Quintius described
two recent events he'd attended with Legio III Cyrenaica (https://www.facebook.com/LegionIIICyr/).
The first was a meeting of the Classical Association of New England over St.
Patrick's Day/Liberalia weekend. The second was a display at the Worchester Art
Museum, that past Saturday, March 25th, which had over 50 attendees per
presentation, which Quintius attributed modestly to the weather.
Sibylla informed us
that there would likely not be a full MithraCon that year, as the number of
expected attendees would not be sufficient to cover a hotel room. However, a
day trip to New Haven was not out of the question.
We talked about
Roman bread and food in general. Octavius said that it was too bad food could
not be shared digitally. I suggested we each cook the same Roman dish at home
and eat it together (remotely). We settled on the 18th of April as the best
date for this little party, which was very felicitous, as it happened to be
Scholastica's birthday. It was agreed that we would sing "Happy
Birthday" in Latin to mark the occasion. (Scholastica herself provided the
translation via Discord soon after this meeting.)
Thanks to Scholastica for feedback on the initial draft.
