Latin birds, part 2
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quislibetOverly Gothic Lactantius Quotation of the Day:
mors illi Venus est, sola est in morte voluptas
ut possit nasci, appetit ante mori
"Death is Venus for it [the Phoenix], the only pleasure is in death; / so that it can be born, it seeks first to die."
-- (Lact. Phoen. 165-166)
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mors illi Venus est, sola est in morte voluptas
ut possit nasci, appetit ante mori
"Death is Venus for it [the Phoenix], the only pleasure is in death; / so that it can be born, it seeks first to die."
-- (Lact. Phoen. 165-166)
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Date: 2003-08-11 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-11 02:41 pm (UTC)Feel free to try, though, if only because it would upset Lactantius.
("Noxious wild beast," (http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/lactant/lactpers.html#II) indeed.)
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Date: 2003-08-11 07:27 pm (UTC)Didn't Suetonius write about Nero dressing up as a wild beast? That vaguely sounds familiar...
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Date: 2003-08-12 10:10 am (UTC)Noxious wild beast
What a small world. That link goes to the page of someone that I just met the other day.
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Date: 2003-08-13 07:43 am (UTC)And Tacitus says that in his scapegoating of Christians after the Great Fire Nero dressed some of THEM as wild beasts and had them torn apart by dogs.
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Date: 2003-08-13 07:45 am (UTC)