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The Campiello del Remer is a picturesque and quaint Venetian spot, nestled amongst splendid Venetian-style buildings. Its name derives from the fact that there used to be a number of workshops there that made oars for gondolas. It is situated near the Rialto Bridge and looks directly out onto the Grand Canal.

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El Campiello del Remer es un pintoresco y característico rincón veneciano, rodeado de espléndidos edificios de estilo veneciano. Su nombre proviene de que, en otros tiempos, allí había algunos talleres donde se fabricaban los remos de las góndolas. Se encuentra cerca del Puente de Rialto y da directamente al Gran Canal.

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Il Campiello del Remer è un pittoresco e caratteristico angolo veneziano, racchiuso tra splendide costruzioni di stile veneziano. Il suo nome deriva dal fatto che un tempo vi erano alcune botteghe che fabbricavano i remi delle gondole. Si trova vicino al Ponte di Rialto, e guarda direttamente sul Canal Grande.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

it's january 49 BC and civil war is in the air.

spin the wheel: this person is trying to kill you

spin it again: this person tries to protect you

Spin the wheel. This Greek mythological figure is trying to kill you

Spin the wheel again. This Greek mythological figure is trying to protect you

what's that? it's Menelaos with the ethnic cleansing steel chair!!

“Smooth on the bottom” : For all the Athenians were actually slender in their posteriors from Theseus. “Smooth on the bottom” means “worn-down.” And indeed they commonly call the Athenians “smoothbuttocked” (λισπóπυγος). And they fashion a story about Thesus, that when he was dragged off by Heracles he left a buttock on the stone. But he [sc. Aristophanes] uses it fittingly of rowers because of their hindquarters, which are slenderbuttocked (λεπτόπυγος). Αnother opinion: it means “attenuated”. The buttocks of the sailors were like this because of their continuous sitting and rowing.

Fuller account of the myth in the Suda

Suda Λ 604 (trans. from Suda online)

Λίσποι: οἱ μέσοι διαπεπρισμένοι ἀστράγαλοι καὶ ἐκτετρημένοι. καὶ λίσπη γλῶσσα, ὡς ἐπιτετριμμένη. λέγονται δὲ καὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐπιθετικῶς λίσπαι, διὰ τὸ ναυτικοὺς ὄντας, ἕνεκα τῆς ἐπὶ τῷ κωπηλατεῖν συνεχοῦς ἐφέδρας ἀπογλούτους εἶναι. ἐν ᾧ διὰ τὸ Θησέα μετὰ Πειρίθου καταβάντα εἰς ᾅδου καὶ πρός τινα πέτραν ὑπὸ Περσεφόνης ἐπικαθισθέντα σὺν τῷ Πειρίθῳ, Ἡρακλέους ἐπὶ τὸν Κέρβερον κατελθόντος, παρὰ τῆς θεοῦ τε αὐτὸν ἐξαιτησαμένου καὶ τῆς πέτρας ἀποσπῶντος, ἐγκαταλειφθῆναι τὸ προσηνωμένον αὐτῇ τῶν γλουτῶν μέρος. διόπερ εἰς τιμὴν ἐκείνου καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς Ἀθηναίους οὕτως ἐπονομάζεσθαι.

“Smooths”: knucklebones sawed through in the middle and bored out. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] ‘smooth tongue’, as one that has been rubbed. The Athenians, too, are called as an epithet “smooths,” because they are, being boatmen and sitting constantly at rowing, small-buttocked. Because, when Theseus went down to the House of Hades to look for Peirithous and was placed by Persephone to sit on a rock with Peirithous, the part of his buttocks attached to it was left on it when Heracles came down for Cerberus and, after asking the goddess for him, snatched him off the rock. Therefore in his honor the rest of the Athenians are also so called.

cf. Servius on Aeneid 6.617 (aeternumque sedebit/ infelix Theseus): “this is unexpected, because he is said to have been freed by Hercules. In the course of which he removed him in such a way that part of his body was left behind”

manuscript O (mid-fourteenth century, the oldest surviving full manuscript)

manuscript G (1375)

manuscript R (c. 1375-95)

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