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Fayum Mummy portrait of a man wearing a beautiful gold wreath of ivy, ca. 2nd Century AD. These portraits really affect me. #Roman #Egypt

Image: Art Institute of Chicago (1922.4798). Link - https://t.co/c1gU43AC5s

#LatinForTheDay - 14 April

"Coacto vero in curiam senatu arduus rerum omnium modus, ne contumax silentium, ne suspecta libertas; et privato Othoni nuper atque eadem dicenti nota adulatio. Igitur versare sententias et huc atque illuc torquere...

#LatinForTheDay - 12 April

"Nam post conditam urbem octingentos et viginti prioris aevi annos multi auctores rettulerunt, dum res populi Romani memorabantur pari eloquentia ac libertate: postquam bellatum apud Actium atque omnem potentiam ad unum conferri pacis interfuit,..."

@underthenettle

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)