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/...
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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....
“What insanity is it to hurry dark death along with wars?
It is already imminent, coming secretly with a quiet foot.”
Quis furor est atram bellis accersere mortem?
Inminet et tacito clam venit illa pede. #Tibullus
The Image at the head of this thread is 'Sappho and Alcaeus' by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1881 (Walters Art Museum: 37.159).
Link - art.thewalters.org/detail/10245
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 18 July #Tibullus
“Pieridas, pueri, doctos et amate poetas,
aurea nec superent munera Pieridas.
carmine purpurea est Nisi coma; carmina ni sint,
ex umero Pelopis non nituisset ebur.
quem referent Musae, vivet, dum robora tellus,...
The Image at the head of this thread is 'Regina Cordium' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866 (Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum: 2196).
Link - artuk.org/discover/art...
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 11 June #Tibullus
“quis fuit, horrendos primus qui protulit enses?
quam ferus et vere ferreus ille fuit!
tum caedes hominum generi, tum proelia nata,
tum brevior dirae mortis aperta via est.
an nihil ille miser meruit, nos ad mala nostra...
The Image at the head of this thread is 'La ghirlandata' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1873 (Guildhall Art Gallery, London: 1059).
Link - artuk.org/discover/art...
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 9 June #Tibullus
“te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora;
te teneam moriens deficiente manu.
flebis et arsuro positum me, Delia, lecto,
tristibus et lacrimis oscula mixta dabis.
flebis: non tua sunt duro praecordia ferro...
The Image at the head of this thread is 'Romeo and Juliet' by Ford Madox Brown, 1867 (The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester: D.1917.20).
Link - artuk.org/discover/art...
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ClassicsBluesky 🧵🏺
#LatinForTheDay – 6 June #Tibullus
“adde merum vinoque novos compesce dolores,
occupet ut fessi lumina victa sopor;
neu quisquam multo percussum tempora baccho
excitet, infelix dum requiescit amor.
nam posita est nostrae custodia saeva puellae,...
The Image at the head of this thread is 'Lovers' by Michael Andrews, 1956 (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff: NMW A(L) 1564).
Link - artuk.org/discover/art...
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 5 June #Tibullus
“semper ut inducar blandos offers mihi vultus,
post tamen es misero tristis et asper, Amor.
quid tibi, saeve, rei mecum est? an gloria magna est
insidias homini composuisse deum?
nam mihi tenduntur casses; iam Delia furtim...
The Image at the head of this thread is 'A Mermaid' by John William Waterhouse, 1900 (Royal Academy of Arts: 03/805).
Link - royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/...
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 3 June #Tibullus
“saepe ego temptavi curas depellere vino:
at dolor in lacrimas verterat omne merum.
saepe aliam tenui: sed iam cum gaudia adirem,
admonuit dominae deseruitque Venus.
tunc me discedens devotum femina dixit,...
The Image at the head of this brief thread is 'The Walls of Pompeii' by Stephan Vladislavovich Bakalowicz, 1885 (Chuvash State Art Museum).
Link - artrenewal.org/artworks/the...
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 18 April #Tibullus
“adde merum vinoque novos compesce dolores,
occupet ut fessi lumina victa sopor;
neu quisquam multo percussum tempora baccho
excitet, infelix dum requiescit amor.
nam posita est nostrae custodia saeva puellae,...
The Image at the head of this thread is the fresco from the peristyle of the House of Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii (VI.1.26) (National Archaeological Museum, Naples (110659).
Link - mann-napoli.it/gabinetto-se...
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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 6 March #Tibullus
“semper ut inducar blandos offers mihi vultus,
post tamen es misero tristis et asper, Amor.
quid tibi, saeve, rei mecum est? an gloria magna est
insidias homini composuisse deum?
nam mihi tenduntur casses; iam Delia furtim...
The Image at the head of this thread is 'Lovers' by Michael Andrews, 1956 (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff: NMW A(L) 1564).
Link - artuk.org/discover/art...
#LatinForTheDay #Tibullus 🧵🏺
ClassicsBluesky 🧵🏺
#LatinForTheDay – 16 February #Tibullus
“semper ut inducar blandos offers mihi vultus,
post tamen es misero tristis et asper, Amor.
quid tibi, saeve, rei mecum est? an gloria magna est
insidias homini composuisse deum?
nam mihi tenduntur casses; iam Delia furtim...
“What insanity is it to hurry dark death along with wars?
It is already imminent, coming secretly with a quiet foot.”
Quis furor est atram bellis accersere mortem?
Inminet et tacito clam venit illa pede. #Tibullus
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 🏺🧵
ClassicsBluesky 🏺 🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 19 November #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....
