re: #398 Cato the Elder

As for the whole “flat earth” canard - the Greeks and Babylonians and others postulated a globe, and the idea never died, not even in the much-maligned Middle Ages. One of the Latin expressions for “the world” is orbis terrarum - the globe of earth.

Thank you!

That always drives me crazy.

The example I use is early Christian imagery, of Popes or Kings, I don’t recall exactly, and in their hand is a ball with a Cross upon it.