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#MuseumsUnlocked - Rome
Two views of the Arch of Constantine - the first an early 20th Century Postcard; the second Canalettos' 'View of the Arch of Constantine with the Colosseum', ca. 1742–1745.
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Images: George Watson Cole Collection; J. Paul Getty Museum (70. PA.52)
#LatinForTheDay - 10 November
"compesce mentem: me quoque pectoris
temptavit in dulci iuventa
fervor et in celeris iambos
misit furentem: nunc ego mitibus...
#LatinForTheDay - 7 November
Quem virum aut heroa lyra vel acri
tibia sumis celebrare, Clio?
quem deum? cuius recinet iocosa
nomen imago
aut in umbrosis Heliconis oris
aut super Pindo gelidove in Haemo,
unde vocalem temere insecutae
Orphea silvae
Horace, Odes 1.12.1-8
#LatinForTheDay - 23 October
"...vertere pallor
tum parochi faciem nil sic metuentis ut acris
potores, vel quod maledicunt liberius vel
fervida quod subtile exsurdant vina palatum....
First up for #MoasicMonday, here's a roundel showing the birth of Mithras. Flanked by his two usual attendants, Cautes and Cautopates, Mithras emerges from a dark cave: ca. 1st Century AD (provenance back to ca. 1905), probably from Egypt. #Roman
Image: Walters Art Museum (43.7)
#LatinForTheDay - 17 October
"...Liberius si
dixero quid, si forte iocosius, hoc mihi iuris
cum venia dabis. insuevit pater optimus hoc me,
ut fugerem exemplis vitiorum quaeque notando....