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Monthly Archives: September 2018
Weird hair, mushrooms, showers, and laughing girls
In Petronius‘ Satyricon, Eumolpus, drunk and trying to make fun of balding people and criminals, eventually bursts out in an ode about hair: (ch. 109, vv. 7–13): Infelix, modo crinibus nitebas Phoebo pulchrior et sorore Phoebi. At nunc levior aere … Continue reading
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Tagged Mario Kart, Mushrooms, Nonsense, Petronius, The Donald, Toad
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Loneliness in Old Age
Poetry and song do wonderful and – in the truest meaning of the word: awesome – things. They allow us to create entire worlds using nothing but words. Alternative worlds in which we may explore and experience what we are … Continue reading
Posted in Carmina Epigraphica, Poetry
Tagged Abandonment, Big questions, Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Family, Food for thought, Humanity, Latin poetry, Latin verse inscriptions, Loneliness, Old age, Philanthropy, Poetry, Society
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