Today's great arrival in the post. A fantastic 1000-page achievement by a terrific Latinist and dear friend, and indispensable for an article on a particular Virgil translator I'm writing on at the moment!

mooi om Frenk hier te zien ook

hahaha to be free from 3 years captivity and arrive in style like this---that's winning.

rundbogenstil evening herman lang, st. george rc church, pittsburgh, pa (1910-12)

Een Statenjacht zeilt naar De Zeven Provinciën, het vlaggenschip van Michiel de Ruyter. Willem van de Velde II, 1673

It’s a ‘16th century book nook’ type of weekend. #SaturdayVibes #booktwt

Everywhere in this country there is glory.

🚂This hotel was built in the 1890s to serve travelers on the Mobile & Birmingham Railroad passing through Whatley, Alabama. But when the passenger trains stopped coming through town in the 1970s, so did the guests, and the hotel has been empty ever since.