Those dog days

Aug 02, 2013

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Why be so cold when you can be more dog? Casting aside the coincidental O2 'Be more dog' campaign which exhorts us to adopt a run-all, chase-all outlook, I thought, with all this oppresive heat bringing us down, that I would throw a few words on how the ancients regarded heat waves, in particular the reason why we refer to a canicula in the Romance-spea…

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