#Imperium Sine Fine

[aeneiddaily]

the end, and imperium sine fine, or something.

[empirewithoutend]

GET IN MY BUSINESS PLEASE:

The meaning behind my url:

14. Piercings i want:

27. First celebrity you think of when someone says attractive:

It's the translation of the Latin phrase 'imperium sine fine' from the poet Virgil's Aeneid. The God Jupiter (Zeus) gifts the Romans empire without end.

14. I don't want any piercings tbh

27. Never really thought about this but I guess it would be Timotheé Chalamet or Harry Collett currently lol

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

Imperium sine fine dedi. Devises Heroïques (1557) Claude Paradin

[orietursicutsol]

In circumcisione Domini et octava Nativitatis Domini

Introitus: Puer natus / Tropus: Gaudeamus hodie Graduale: Viderunt omnes Alleluia: Multifarie olim Offertorium: Tui sunt caeli / Tropus: Qui es sine principio Communio: Viderunt omnes / Tropus: Radix Jesse virga

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Introitus (Ez 9,6; Ps 97,1)

Gaudeamus hodie, quia Deus descendit de celis et propter nos in terris: Puer natus est nobis quem prophete diu vaticinati sunt, et filius datus est nobis. Hunc a Patre iam novimus esse missum in mundum, cuius imperium super humerum eius: et vocabitur nomen eius admirabilis Consiliarius, Deus fortis, Princeps pacis, magni consilii Angelus.

Cantate domino canticum novum eia dic domne eia Cantate Domino canticum novum, quia mirabilia fecit.

Vera dei forma patris hodie suscepit pro nostra salute formam humanam: Hoc jam psallite et ovantes canite Puer natus est nobis*

Glorietur pater in filio suo unigenito Gloria euouae.

Ecce adest de quo prophetae cecinit dicens Puer natus est nobis Quem virgo maria genuit et filius datus est nobis. Nomen ejus Emmanuel vocabitur cuius imperium*

Graduale (Ps 97, 3 - 4, 2) Viderunt omnes fines terrae salutare Dei nostri: iubilate Deo omnis terra. V. Notum fecit Dominus salutare suum: ante conspectum gentium revelavit iustitiam suam.

Alleluia (Hbr 1, 1-2) V. Multifarie olim Deus loquens patribus in prophetis, novissime diebus istis locutus est nobis in Filio. Alleluia.

Offertorium (Ps 88, 12.15) Qui es sine principio cum patre et spiritu sancto fili dei Tui sunt caeli, et tua est terra: Nobis hodie natus de virgine Deus homo orbem terrarum, et plenitudinem eius tu fundasti: Ab initio et nunc et in saeculum iustitia et iudicium praeparatio sedis tuae.

Communio (Ps 97,3) Radix Jesse virga fronde floruit quoniam Maria virgo deum nobis genuit quod patriarchis deus promisit signisque praefiguravit: Desinat esse dolor pro antiqua lege quia ecce Viderunt omnes fines terrae Cernere quod verbum domini meruere canamus salutare Dei nostri.

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Les Premières Polyphonies Françaises (Organa Et Tropes Du XIè Siècle) Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard (1996, Virgin Veritas – 7243 5 45135 2 7)

[forkwisse]

Ignoring the bit about the to the hilt support for the brutal apartheid regime, this is going into my folder of "proof Americans do not comprehend that we still live within history". Imperium Sine Fine.

[warsofasoiaf]

Alternate Timeline for Byzantium

In your alternate timeline where the Byzantine Empire survives how much of it's territory does it hold onto: just modern-day Greece, Macedonia, Turkey and Cyprus or also the lands along the Levantine coast from Anatolia to the Sinai, Serbia, Bulgaria and Egypt?

For those who are unfamiliar. Yoda is asking about my Imperium Sine Fine setting.

It waxes and wanes over the course of the setting. For a while, Antioch is one of their chief eastern outposts, but I think they won't control the Levant, the Holy Land, or Egypt for long - regional Muslim powers based out of Egypt and Damascus would probably eventually forge a strong enough political and military force to contend with the Byzantines. They would try to fight with both Egypt and Syria in an attempt to seize the spice trade, and eventually Byzantine colonization efforts would have to deal with the loss of the trade routes.

In the Balkans, the Byzantines would variously contend with Austria, Hungary, and Russia for territories in Bulgaria and Serbia, and have to contend with nationalistic movements via a mix of local autonomy and military suppression, as well as Russia and Byzantium fighting over Crimea.

Thanks for the question, Yoda.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[ancient-rome-au]

mfw I conclude DMing a D&D 5e campaign in post-Roman Britain that lasted 30 sessions over the course of 9 months

[seeliragh-fr]

i got an rp letter for the first time this morning!! in honor of that and the holiday i’ll be giving sabia a little bit of an overhaul this week

[jamesshawgames]

I just got my major end states lined up. I've linked each end state to an achievement, and each achievement's title is in Latin, because I'm pretentious. I'll post the list of achievement titles here, for people who might enjoy speculating on what the endings might be:

Imperium sine fine.

Unum pro multis dabitur caput.

Deus ex machina.

Anagnorisis.

Pax Britannica.

Status quo post bellum.

Have at it, speculators!

[splendidemendax]

Back on my bs by which I mean writing overly long responses that end up being only vaguely related to the original post, but @ofhouseadama brought up classic-y things and Star Trek (here) and obv I have thoughts.

So the gens Iulia claimed their descent from Venus by way of Ascanius/Iulus, Aeneas' son, whom he led out of a burning Troy by the hand as he carried his elderly father (statue by Bernini here). The most famous version of this story is obv Vergil's Aeneid, which has some really fun themes of memory and empire building and which I'd love to get a Cardassian take on (I wrote a bit abt that here when I was avoiding some actual work). I mostly talked about the political implications and a bit of the weird time stuff, which I maintain would be extremely cool.

But if we're specifically talking about these characters and their relationship with the text, Garak might have some feelings abt Aeneas in particular. He's fato profugus (lit. "exiled by fate," sometimes rendered as "fated to be an exile", Aen. 1.2) and his first speech in the poem begins O terque quaterque beati,/quis ante ora patrum Troiae sub moenibus altis/contigit oppetere! ("Oh, three and four times blessed were those who chanced to die before their fathers' eyes beneath the high walls of Troy!", Aen. 1.95–97). I mean, yikes.

He's also insign[is] pietate ("distinguished by pietas", Aen. 1.10). Pietas means something like "duty-bound-ness;" my favorite explanation of it (via my HS Latin teacher) is that if you're pius, you do your duty to everyone to whom you owe a duty and you prioritize those respective duties properly. It's Aeneas' characteristic trait and I bet Garak would have some thoughts, both on the concept and on how Aeneas relates to it.

The thing about pietas is that it's a high virtue to the Romans but it's complicated. Throughout the Aeneid, Aeneas is trying to found the Roman race. This is his destiny and his duty both. Sometimes he seems into it but we see moments when it's clear he'd really rather do something else. The big one is with Dido, whom he meets in book one and with whom he has a relationship in book four. There we see the cost of Aeneas' duty for the people around him, who get trampled under it. It doesn't really do much for him either: the contrast between the Aeneas who cries in the storm in book one and the Aeneas who kills Turnus in a fit of rage at the end of book twelve is profound. That ending is so unsettling that there's a persistent idea that Vergil must have meant to write more (the epic was unfinished at the time of Vergil's death, but it's more at the line-edit level than the structural level) because that can't have been it.

And what Aeneas gets in return for all this suffering, his own and that of those around him, is the foundation of the Roman people, the beginnings of the imperium sine fine ("empire without end", Aen. 1.279) promised by Jupiter in book one. That's only uplifting if you presume that Rome's very existence is the highest good. Otherwise, the Aeneid is a pretty horrifying tragedy of a traumatized refugee who has lived to see the end of all he knew and cuts a swathe across the Mediterranean on the promise of a meaningful future for his descendants. In book one, he tells his men durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis ("endure, and preserve yourselves for better things", Aen. 1.207); by book twelve, that order feels almost sinister.

I think this would be a cool book for Garak to read at any point in the show but especially after the show ends. Take everything above, plus the political implications and weird prophesying I mentioned in the other post, plus the whole thing of an epic about nation building when read in the context of world (re)building, and you've got a bunch of interesting avenues to explore (and that's not even getting into other bits like the familial relationships or, like, all of book two). I also think it would be fun to use in a fic similarly to how Julius Caesar is used in "Improbable Cause"/"The Die Is Cast."

And bonus: if we're specifically talking about what Garak might actually say out loud, his sticking point would def be Aeneas just, like, leaving Creusa in Troy. Dude really forgot his whole wife in a burning city and then was all, like, surprised Pikachu face about it. That's book two of twelve. I think it would be extremely difficult to get Garak to read past that, much less talk about anything else, especially because basically every interesting element of the story would be pretty highly emotionally charged for him.

[strange-gods]

The Empress - Strange Gods Tarot 

Inde lupae fuluo nutricis tegmine laetus  Romulus excipiet gentem, et Mauortia condet moenia, Romanosque suo de nomine dicet. His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono ; imperium sine fine dedi. Virgil - Aeneid Book I Art by Valin Mattheis Art Direction & Conception by Amandine Sosinski (IG: feastofthedead ) The 3rd Major Arcana of the Strange Gods Tarot. Prints available in the shop Every order is getting us closer to publishing the deck independently. Thank you for your support! 

[empirewithoutend]

1, 20, 89

The meaning behind my url

It's from Virgil's Aeneid, the Roman God Jupiter (aka Zeus) gifts the Romans 'imperium sine fine dedi', variously translated as 'empire without end' or 'power without limit'

20. Height

I am 5'11

89. Have you ever been too scared to watch scary movies alone?

Yes.

[stirringwinds]

'old roma spoke of imperium sine fine—empire without end. it was his divinely-ordained destiny, he claimed. well, the old gods certainly punished him for his hubris. though of course, one of his bastards made that arrogant boast a reality.’

‘memories are strange things for us. i remember the very old times, things that the others say i can’t have remembered. i did not exist, some say. not yet. i can’t have remembered him, terrible and magnificent, the shining edge of his sword, bright like the silver and gold in my land that he hungered for. but i do.’ 

nations, names, imperial legacies—and contradictory origin stories. 

[hiendrae]

HYDRAE releases highly anticipated 3rd full album “theater of tragedy” as a kick-off for a world tour!

ALBUM TITLE: theater of tragedy RELEASE DATE: 06.11.2017 LANGUAGE: korean RELEASE TYPE: physical and digital album GENRE: alternative rock, soft-rock, ballad, punk-pop, alternative metal PRODUCED BY: rien LYRICS, COMPOSITION & ARRAGEMENT: rien

finally halting the waiting period for fans worldwide, HYDRAE started the second week of the month with the release of their highly anticipated third full album, theater of tragedy, compiling the early release of this year ‘vacant rain’, ‘adjoin’ and ‘separation anxiety’ with twelve other unprecedented tracks, the quartet delivers an impressively emotional musical act while transitioning swiftly within the sub-genres derived from alternative rock, asserting the versatility of their music. with prominent guitars, a daring rhythmical line, the poetic lyricism of their songs and the exploration of classical instruments, the band certainly pleased both the older fans who admired their work before the popularization of their music and the newcomers who might have discovered the band within the delivery of original sound tracks for popular dramas and movies. theater of tragedy also denotes the resume of HYDRAE’s presence in the stage, for the band will be embarking in yet another world tour, the opening concerts will take place at gocheok sky dome, in seoul, on the 17th and the 18th of june. other cities already confirmed to host their 2017 tour are tokyo, osaka, taipei, bangkok, new york, london and paris.

TRACKLIST

01. solace 02. 유령 (ghost) 03. greek tragedy 04. 염원 (desire&anxiety) 05. 진심을 너에게 (sincerely to you) 06. kaleidoscopic sky 07. oh it’s such a shame 08. 우리 안에. (rest in us ) 09. roses 10. adjoin 11. lost (in) you 12. 잠깐 스친 바람이야 (gone with the wind) 13. separation anxiety 14. i don’t wanna be in love 15. 비가 오는 날엔 (vacant rain) 16. outro: andromeda

disclaimer: i’m not affiliated with any of the artists presented above, this post is completely fictional and only made for roleplaying purposes and should be treated as such.

[coeurvrai]

When you see this, share three random lines from three random WIPs

*dabs* 

Night Blood WIP (Coteries of New York x VTMB crossover, go!)

“That-” Zoya’s brows furrowed. Wasn’t Blood Sorcery something only the Tremere and Banu Haqim could do? “That doesn’t make any sense.”

Celia gave the blade one last wipe against the corpse, before standing. She turned around to face her, sheathing the weapon. 

“It’s true that the Pyramid is protective of Thaumaturgy and all its knowledge. But it can be learned.” Her dark eyes bore into Zoya. “I learned.”

You’re every bone that I need to break WIP (Shadows of New York, but my Coteries Fledgling is still alive; just blood bonded to Arturo)

It surprises Julia, that Qadir doesn’t stop the woman and lets her slap him. “I’m trying to help you,” he snaps.

Zoya stares at him again, this time pure rage clear in her blue eyes. 

“Help me?” Her voice is high and barely even. “The last time you tried to help me, you stood over me in my apartment and intimidated me! Then you gave me a warning for something you knew I wouldn’t be able to figure out.”

Imperium Sine Fine (Star Wars, “Empire AU” a.k.a for my Bellatrix Lestrange I played at the time and @markantonyvevo’s Hux)

There’s a body at her feet. Blood seeps from it, pooling crimson; the same shade of the now-extinguished lightsaber scattered to the side.

It’s almost fitting, she thinks, if she’s willing to be poetic about it. But she has no use for poetry, and besides, this wasn’t done in the name of justice. If it was done in any name at all, it would be the Order’s. Or hers.

She brings a hand up to her mask, and removes it with a soft click and a hiss of air. Tipping her head back, she breathes in.

[boatcats]

OK, Will & Lymond, lawful evil. Good luck >:3

"You can't be proposing to leave me here!" Will Scott placed his hands on the bars to his cell then, feeling this was less than dignified, removed them.

Lymond appeared unmoved. "Why not? Give unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's. And you have cast your lot with Ceasar entirely. Imperium sine fine."

"I was only trying to --"

"Inform the authorities on a person practicing their occupation, I know. And thoroughly implicate yourself as well, it would seem. Though I imagine that last part was unintentional. A pity."