In the second century, the jurist Sextus Pomponius proposed a double etymology of a different type, deriving ‘territorium’ from the verb ‘terrere’, to induce terror — Marcello Tarì, There’s No Unhappy Revolution
A few years ago, I was conversing with a member of the Italian Air Force at my Mom’s place in the Northeast of Italy. We discussed his experien…
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