The Image at the head of this thread is the 'Matsuri Yatai Phoenix' by Katsushika Hokusai, 1844.
Hokusai Museum Link - hokusai-kan.com/obuse-and-ho...
#LatinForTheDay #Claudian 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 7 March #Claudian
“par volucer superis, stellas qui vividus aequat
durando membrisque terit redeuntibus aevum,
non epulis saturare famem, non fontibus ullis
adsuetus prohibere sitim; sed purior illum
solis fervor alit ventosaque pabula potat...
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty' by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1746 (The National Gallery: NG6316).
Link - nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/po...
#LatinForTheDay #Horace 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🧵🏺
#LatinForTheDay – 28 January #Horace
“tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati,
seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,...
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess')' by Quinten Massys, ca. 1513 (The National Gallery: NG5769).
Link - nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/qu...
#LatinForTheDay #Catullus 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay - 16 January #Catullus
“salve, nec minimo puella naso
nec bello pede nec nigris ocellis
nec longis digitis nec ore sicco
nec sane nimis elegante lingua,
decoctoris amica Formiani....
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'The Bedroom' by Vincent van Gogh, 1888 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam: F0482; JH1608).
Link - vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
#LatinForTheDay #Ovid 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 11 January #Ovid
“esse quid hoc dicam, quod tam mihi dura videntur
strata, neque in lecto pallia nostra sedent,
et vacuus somno noctem, quam longa, peregi,
lassaque versati corporis ossa dolent?
nam, puto, sentirem, siquo temptarer amore....
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Mistress and Maid' by Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1666-1667 (The Frick Collection: 1919.1.126).
Link - collections.frick.org/objects/274/...
#LatinForTheDay #Tibullus 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🧵🏺
#LatinForTheDay – 7 January #Tibullus
“hic mihi servitium video dominamque paratam:
iam mihi, libertas illa paterna, vale.
servitium sed triste datur, teneorque catenis,
et numquam misero vincla remittit Amor,
et seu quid merui seu nil peccavimus, urit....
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Scythians at Ovid's Tomb' by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld, ca. 1650s (Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest: 51.164).
Link - szepmuveszeti.hu/mutargyak/10...
#LatinForTheDay #Ovid 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🧵🏺
#LatinForTheDay – 5 January #Ovid
“perdiderint cum me duo crimina, carmen et error,
alterius facti culpa silenda mihi:
nam non sum tanti, renovem ut tua vulnera, Caesar,
quem nimio plus est indoluisse semel.
altera pars superest, qua turpi carmine factus...
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Temple of Janus (Templum Jani)' by Peter Paul Rubens, 1634 (State Hermitage Museum: ГЭ-500).
Link - hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/h...
#LatinForTheDay #Ovid 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 1 January #Ovid
“Iane biceps, anni tacite labentis origo,
solus de superis qui tua terga vides,
dexter ades ducibus, quorum secura labore
otia terra ferax, otia pontus habet:
dexter ades patribusque tuis populoque Quirini,...
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Orphée mort' by Jean Delville, 1893 (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts - Brussels: 12209).
Link - fine-arts-museum.be/fr/la-collec...
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 2 December #Ovid
“membra iacent diversa locis, caput, Hebre, lyramque
excipis: et (mirum!) medio dum labitur amne,
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua
murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae.
iamque mare invectae flumen populare relinquunt...
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'The Two Wives of Jason' by Edward Coley Burne-Jones, before 1872 (Ashmolean Museum: WA. RS.WAL.04).
Link - collections.ashmolean.org/object/761406
#LatinForTheDay #Ovid 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 21 November #Ovid
“cur mihi fama prior de te quam littera venit:
isse sacros Marti sub iuga panda boves,
seminibus iactis segetes adolesse virorum
inque necem dextra non eguisse tua,
pervigilem spolium pecudis servasse draconem,...
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The Image at the head of this thread is (of course) 'Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte' by George Seurat, 1884 (Art Institute, Chicago: 1926.224).
Link - artic.edu/artworks/279...
#LatinForTheDay #Horace 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Helen of Troy' by Evelyn De Morgan, 1898 (De Morgan Collection: P_EDM_0023).
Link - demorgan.org.uk/collection/h...
#LatinForTheDay #Ovid 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid
“nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur
rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo.
rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris,
dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae.
si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Ariadne on Naxos' by Joseph Edward Southall, 1925 (Birmingham Museums Trust: 1948P3).
Link - artuk.org/discover/art...
#LatinForTheDay #Ovid 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Witches' Sabbath' by Frans Francken II, 1606 (Victoria & Albert Museum: DYCE.3).
Link - collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O69001/...
#LatinForTheDay #Lucan 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay for #Halloween – 31 October #Lucan
“illi namque nefas urbis summittere tecto
aut laribus ferale caput, desertaque busta
incolit et tumulos expulsis obtinet umbris
grata deis Erebi. coetus audire silentum,
nosse domos Stygias arcanaque Ditis operti...
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Cerberus' by William Blake, ca. 1824-1827 (Tate Collection: N03354).
Link - tate.org.uk/art/artworks...
#LatinForTheDay #Virgil 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 27 October #Virgil
“Cerberus haec ingens latratu regna trifauci
personat, adverso recubans immanis in antro.
cui vates, horrere videns iam colla colubris,
melle soporatam et medicatis frugibus offam
obicit. ille fame rabida tria guttura pandens...
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The Image at the head of this thread is 'Beata Beatrix' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1880 (National Gallery of Scotland: NG 1721).
Link - artuk.org/discover/art...
#LatinForTheDay #Ovid 🧵🏺
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 20 October #Ovid
“scis here te, mea lux, iuveni placuisse beato?
haesit et in vultu constitit usque tuo.
et cur non placeas? nulli tua forma secunda est;
me miseram, dignus corpore cultus abest!
tam felix esses quam formosissima, vellem—...
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