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I think it's fair to say that he understands the assignment.

'Pylos Combat Agate' - a stunningly beautiful engraved sealstone from the Late Helladic II grave of the so-called Griffin Warrior near the Palace of Nestor, Pylos. #BronzeAge (1/2)

Image: J. Vanderpool; Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati (via Stocker & Davis 2017)

#LatinForTheDay - 25 March

"Hoc verumst, tota te ferri, Cynthia, Roma,
et non ignota vivere nequitia?
haec merui sperare? dabis mihi, perfida, poenas;
et nobis aliquo, Cynthia, ventus erit....

#LatinForTheDay - 20 March - and a quick bit of #Ovid

"Quaere novum vatem, tenerorum mater Amorum!
raditur hic elegis ultima meta meis;
quos ego conposui, Paeligni ruris alumnus—
nec me deliciae dedecuere meae—
siquid id est, usque a proavis vetus ordinis heres,...

The Fourth Century saw an expansion of the coin designs and the commencement of the gold stater series with an Obverse dominated by a portrait of a satyr wearing an ivy wreath as on our coin here.

Image: Obverse of ANS 1944.100.26248

#LatinForTheDay - 5 March

"Quae tibi cum pedibus ratio? quid carmina culpas?
scandere qui nescis, versiculos laceras?
"claudicat hic versus; haec" inquit “syllaba nutat”;
atque nihil prorsus stare putat podager."

Claudian, Shorter Poems 13 (LXXIX)

#MosaicMonday - a fantastic fun scene here, with musicians, dancing and some bum-wiggling to boot! This ca. 2nd Century AD scene was discovered in the garden of S. Sabina on the Aventine in 1711. #Roman

Image: Musei Vaticani (MV.902.0.0)

That the Pegasus came to be seen as something of a personal device for Mithridates VI is suggested by this pro-Pontic Athenian tetradrachm minted by Aristion and Philon in ca. 97-96 BC.

Image: ANS 1944.100.24839. Link - https://t.co/c0rAdMI8Jj

#LatinForTheDay - 18 February

"Callidus effracta nummos fur auferet arca,
prosternet patrios impia flamma lares:
debitor usuram pariter sortemque negabit,
non reddet sterilis semina iacta seges:...