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- 9 May 🧵

“non tu scis? quae amanti parcet, eadem sibi parcet parum.
quasi piscis itidem est amator lenae: nequam est nisi recens;
is habet sucum, is suauitatem, eum quovis pacto condias
vel patinarium vel assum, vorses quo pacto lubet:...

#LatinForTheDay - 9 May #Plautus 🧵

“non tu scis? quae amanti parcet, eadem sibi parcet parum.
quasi piscis itidem est amator lenae: nequam est nisi recens;
is habet sucum, is suauitatem, eum quovis pacto condias
vel patinarium vel assum, vorses quo pacto lubet:...
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- 30 April 🧵

“saepe ego digestos volui numerare colores
nec potui: numero copia maior erat.
roscida cum primum foliis excussa pruina est,
et variae radiis intepuere comae,...

#LatinForTheDay - 30 April #Ovid 🧵

“saepe ego digestos volui numerare colores
    nec potui: numero copia maior erat.
roscida cum primum foliis excussa pruina est,
    et variae radiis intepuere comae,...
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– 7 May 🧵

“spectat inornatos collo pendere capillos
et “quid, si comantur?” ait. videt igne micantes
sideribus similes oculos, videt oscula, quae non
est vidisse satis; laudat digitosque manusque
bracchiaque et nudos media plus parte lacertos;...

#LatinForTheDay – 7 May #Ovid 🧵

“spectat inornatos collo pendere capillos
et “quid, si comantur?” ait. videt igne micantes
sideribus similes oculos, videt oscula, quae non
est vidisse satis; laudat digitosque manusque
bracchiaque et nudos media plus parte lacertos;...
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– 6 May 🧵

“arma dedi Danais in Amazonas; arma supersunt,
quae tibi dem et turmae, Penthesilea, tuae.
ite in bella pares; vincant, quibus alma Dione
faverit et toto qui volat orbe puer.
non erat armatis aequum concurrere nudas;...

#LatinForTheDay – 6 May #Ovid 🧵

“arma dedi Danais in Amazonas; arma supersunt,
    quae tibi dem et turmae, Penthesilea, tuae.
ite in bella pares; vincant, quibus alma Dione
    faverit et toto qui volat orbe puer.
non erat armatis aequum concurrere nudas;...
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– 3 May 🧵

“siquis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi,
hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet.
arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur,
arte leves currus: arte regendus amor.
curribus Automedon lentisque erat aptus habenis,...

#LatinForTheDay – 3 May #Ovid 🧵

“siquis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi,
    hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet.
arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur,
    arte leves currus: arte regendus amor.
curribus Automedon lentisque erat aptus habenis,...
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The Image at the head of this thread is a detail from the 'Apollo and Daphne' statue by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, ca. 1622-1625 (Galleria Borghese: CV).

Link - collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en/opere/apoll…

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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Rousse (La toilette)' by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ca. 1889 (Musée d’Orsay: RF 2242).

Link - musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/rou…

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The Image at the head of this thread is a detail from 'Flora' by Evelyn De Morgan, 1894 (The De Morgan Foundation: P_EDM_0017).

Link - demorgan.org.uk/collection/flo…

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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Venus with a Mirror' by Titian, ca. 1555 (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: 1937.1.34).

Link - nga.gov/collection/art…

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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Battle of the Amazons' by Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 1971 (Sir Francis Cook Gallery: JHT/1984/01273).

Link - artuk.org/discover/artwo…

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Dr Crom I realize I'm responding to a post, but do you know of an available resource for Plutarch's Lives in the original Greek or, in a perfect world, a side by side to English a la Seamus Heaney's Beowulf?

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The Image at the head of this thread is 'The Death of Dido' by Ferdinand Bol, ca. 1668-1669 (The Leiden Collection: FB-103).

Link - theleidencollection.com/artwork/the-de…

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