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As the Ides of March approaches, a perennial question returns for John Bryson of Pymble. “Why is the Ides of March the 15th day when for most months it is the 13th? In many past Marches I have asked Column 8 this and never got the slightest attention. Somebody must know.” Perhaps just blame Julius Caesar. Those Roman senators certainly did.
“Am I really the only one who sees a huge hammer when looking at the Bunnings logo (C8)?” asks Roderick van Gelder of Hunters Hill.
Concerned about overdevelopment in your suburb? Follow the cue of Goulburn residents, who fought a plan to replace a 130-year-old house in Hurst Street with a McMansion by swamping the council with dozens of submissions. According to Peter Riley of Penrith, who has been following the case, “they ranged from quoting Joni Mitchell’s
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Una de romanos
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canvassing, but in Rome it went by the Latin name
ambitio, which stems from the verb
ambire “to go around.”
The citizens knew that these Roman politicians all wanted the same thing: To be elected to positions of power, authority, and honor. And over time, the word
ambitio came to be associated not with the act of canvassing itself but with the desire that spurred the act and not in a positive way.
And that was the meaning the word held when it found its way into English in the 14th century as
ambition. Having lost all connection to the physical act of door-to-door solicitation, ambition was considered, for several generations of English speakers, an undesirable trait. It wasn’t a desire for self-improvement but for self-aggrandizement, indicating opportunism and arrogance. Being called
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