'Dew drips with beauty
While the roses bloom alongside
The soft chervil and blossoming clover.'

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The library description of this mid 13th cent. MS calls this philosophic cartoon 'famous'. It certainly should be, for all it was new to me.

(Bodleian Libraries : Ashmole 304).

'And he left the bath, looking like one of the immortal gods'

ἐκ δ' ἀσαμίνθου βῆ δέμας ἀθανάτοισιν ὁμοῖος

#Homer #Odyssey #PostShowerEnergy

always timely, that Homer

sententiae antiquae 'Bring me Duncan and the Wookie'

Son (12) after finishing 'Children of Dune':

'So Leto II turns into Jabba the Hut'?

#classicstwitter advice, please
I've been brought into a school that hasn't had Latin before. Beside lunch clubs, a GCSE class: on 2½ lessons/week, we're up to Taylor Chap 5. Still realistic to do exam in 2025? What support/materials should I be seeking?
gratias
The Classics Library

'I wish I could make this single thing clear to you: whatever I say, I don’t just feel it, I mean it.'

Hoc unum plane tibi adprobare vellem: omnia me illa sentire, quae dicerem, nec tantum sentire, sed amare

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'I want my letters to have the quality of the kind of conversation we’d have while sitting next to each other or walking: easy and unlabored, since there is nothing forced or false about them.'

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“All people certainly understand the better
Of two arguments, the good and the bad,
By how much peace is better than war for mortals.”

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'war is sweet to the inexperienced but someone
who knows
trembles awfully in their heart at its approach.'

γλυκὺ δὲ πόλεμος ἀπείροισιν, ἐμπείρων δέ τις
ταρβεῖ προσιόντα νιν καρδίᾳ περισσῶς

#Pindar #Fragments #War

“You all seem to me to understand, Athenians, that it is better to make a just peace than to keep going to war.”

Ὅτι μὲν εἰρήνην ποιεῖσθαι δικαίαν ἄμεινόν ἐστιν ἢ πολεμεῖν, δοκεῖτέ μοι, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, πάντες γιγνώσκειν #Andocides

“Once it sweeps away daily abundance, war is a violent teacher: it makes the passions of most men equal to present need.”

ὁ δὲ πόλεμος ὑφελὼν τὴν εὐπορίαν τοῦ καθ’ ἡμέραν βίαιος διδάσκαλος καὶ πρὸς τὰ
παρόντα τὰς ὀργὰς τῶν πολλῶν ὁμοιοῖ #Thucydides

“To that extent, they preferred the chance of a disastrous war to an ignominious peace.”

…adeo vel infelix bellum ignominiosae paci praeferebant. #Livy

[Layla, having a classic todder tantrum]:

'I don't like you daddy! I don't like you mommy! I only like myself!'

'We are a species desperate to know about other people’s lives but negligent in fixing our own. Why do those who do not want me to say who they are want to ask me who I am?'

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Layla is having a conversation with Mowgli about squirrels

The most unnerving thing of having a toddler insist on following you to the bathroom is the play-by-play

Classicists:
I once read that ancient Phoenician sailors would stock small uninhabited islands with goats (I think it was) so they could hunt their descendants in later years when passing through.
Does this sound familiar? More important, can anyone quote a source or parallel?

What a horrible story