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Why, in English, do we refer to certain figures from Roman history by dropping the /-us/ from their names (Justinian, Octavian, Marc Antony, Tully, the Antonines, etc.) and others with their full Latin names ([Gaius] Julius Caesar, Crassus, Commodus, Augustus, Marcus Aurelius, etc.)?
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Did Ancient Greeks/Romans conceive of the Sun, the Moon, the planets and stars as actual places with geographical features, where you could hypothetically go and walk around?
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How did the Soviet Union attempt to domestically and internationally justify plainly different standards of living between party leaders and ordinary citizens?
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