#Latin

[a-book-of-creatures]

The motto "ut lapsu graviore ruant" ("that they may fall more heavily", usually preceded by "tolluntur in altum", "raised on high"), roughly means "the harder they fall". Here it is couple with a battling dragon and eagle, who it is said fought bitterly in the air. When the dragon coiled around the eagle, both plummeted to their deaths.

Image from Paradin, C. (1557) Devises Héroïques. Jean de Tournes, Lyon.

[sickfreaksirkay]

oh im sure he was

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Manuel Domínguez y Sánchez (Spanish, 1839-1906) Fauno, 19th century Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

[earlgrey24]

In honour of the start of The Aeneid subscription – here's a painting of Aeneas and Dido from Louvre!

Notice the slay fit with the ultra short toga

[yvanspijk]

Sin, sooth, Sünde

Sin is distantly related to sooth. They stem from two different derivatives of a present participle meaning 'being'. German Sünde, Dutch zonde, and Scandinavian synd (all meaning 'sin') come from another derivative of this participle. Click the infographic to learn how it went.

[mtobrasileiro]

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[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[volumina-vetustiora]

what the fuck

saxo cere comminuit brum

what the actual fuck

[apas-95]

[xojack]

𝕳𝖊𝖓𝖗𝖞 𝖂𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗

[livousart]

brazilian beaches: stairs

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Juan Pantoja de la Cruz (Spanish, 1551-1608) Portrait of Don Diego Gomez de Sandoval Y Rojas, Count of Saldana, ca.1598 Norton Simon Museum Don Diego Gomez de Sandoval (c. 1578–1632) was the son of King Philip III’s chief minister, and attained the title of Count upon his marriage to the Condesa de Saldaña in 1604. This painting was once part of the vast collection of Philip, Duke of Orleans, Regent of France (1624–1723).

[nation-of-bros]

Damn, those dark almond eyes are irresistible.

[foone]

As a fellow pope, I'd like to chastise Mr. Francis for using homophobic slurs in Italian.

If you do that, you should be doing it in Latin, not Italian!

The words you're looking for are "pathicus, pathici" (which basically means "bottom": literally it means "someone who gets buttfucked") or "cinaedus, cinaedi" (which means "cocksucker", more or less).

Anyway, come on. The Church has standardized on Latin for 17 centuries, don't go insulting homosexuals in mere Italian.