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English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.

It encompassed fine art and classical Latin — Ms. Mayer was educated at the elite National Cathedral School in Washington — as well as references to 1950s television shows and seemingly every character represented at Comic-Con, the international comics festival that she reliably covered for NPR, in full costume and with gusto.

In classical Latin you demonstrate something by pointing it out with your finger.

Because it did not exist in classical Latin discooperio never established itself as a respectable term; in any case, discovery was such a new concept that at first it required explication.

The Romans, characteristically, lacked a term for ‘innovation’: the meaning given by Lewis and Short’s dictionary for classical Latin instauratio is ‘a renewing, renewal, repetition’; the first meaning given for classical innovo is ‘renew’, and for post-classical innovation ‘renewal’.