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#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

Ancient Coin of the Day: Sometimes you’ve just got to embrace the shiny – today’s thread begins with this glorious gold stater from Panticapaeum in the Tauric Chersonese, ca. 370-350 BC.

#ACOTD #Panticapaeum #Satyr

Image: ANS 1944.100.26248. Link – https://t.co/PSrTU1xxNB

#MosaicMonday - and I'm hoping to channel the energy of this prancing Dionysus at the start of the working week... maybe not his outfit though. Wish me luck!

ca. 4th Century AD, excavated at Halicarnassus.

Image: British Museum (1857,1220.414)

#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:...

A last #FrescoFriday for the morning, with this awesome panel of Dido from the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). Dido is seated on her throne, with an attendant personification of Africa, as Aeneas' ship departs. #Dido

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8898)

#LatinForTheDay - 17 January

"Aeneas, quamquam et sociis dare tempus humandis
praecipitant curae turbataque funere mens est,
vota deum primo victor solvebat Eoo.
ingentem quercum decisis undique ramis
constituit tumulo fulgentiaque induit arma,...