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[darkravenclaw]

Classics x Dark Academia

Forgets to study for Latin grammar but instead devote all their time to memorising tons of Latin phrases and quotes, Homer and Virgil’s texts are the sacred gods and there’s a shrine built around them, late nights translating Ancient Greek, Dictionaries are strewn everywhere, Accidental tea/coffee stains on the desk and pages of books, Books everywhere, “How about picking up French or German” although struggling with finishing essays, BUST HEADS!!!!, “Let’s start a cult for Apollo, I don’t care if it is 2am, we are doing it right now”, Burns sacrifices to the muse Calliope, comptine d'un autre été playing in loop in the background, “Which Cleitus are we talking about now?”, tweed, coats, nights, star-gazing, Wonder how it would be like if Nero lived now, More tea, scarves, wears no makeup, love the dark eye circles under the eyes, libraries, mix of coffee and vanilla scent, hint of cinnamon, hair’s a mess because life’s menace, pulvis et umbra sumus, black ink on yellowing paper, cursive, museums, statues, a phone gallery filled with DA aesthetic, hand-written, libraries, fireplaces, sells their soul to whoever willing to take it to bring back Ancient figures so they can question them themselves for dissertation, supposed to be reading up on ancient rome but actually reading modern literature, most likely to start a cult around the Olympians

[melancholicandnostalgic]

A log of my favourite Latin phrases

general

audentas fortuna iuvat - fortune favours the bold

barba non facit philosophum - a beard does not make one a philosopher

dulce est desipere in loco - it is sweet on occasion to play the fool

alenda lux ubi orta libertas - let light be nourished where liberty has arisen

in theatro ludus - like a scene in a play

mactate virtute sic itar ad astra - those who excel, thus reach the stars

aurora musis amica - dawn is a friend to the muses

non facias malum ut inde fiat bonum - you should not make evil in order that good may be made from it

concordia parvae res crescunt - small things grow in harmony

adaequatio rei et intellectus - correspondence of mind and reality

fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt - men generally believe what they want to

manibus date lilia plenis - give lilies with full hands

iucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum - pleasant is the memory of past troubles

acta non verba - actions not words

lorem ipsum - pain for its own sake

non progredi est regredi - to not go forward is to go backward

mos maiorum - the custom of our ancestors

faber est suae quisque fortunae - every man is the artisan of his own fortune

auctoritas non veritas facit legem - authority, not truth, makes law

dies tenebrosa sicut nox - a day as dark as night

mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - the world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived

actiones secundum fidei - action follows belief

collige virgo rosas - pick, girl, the roses

inveniet quod quisque velit - each shall find what he desires

ab imo pectore - from the deepest chest

haud ignota loquor - I speak not of unknown things

condemnant quod non intellegunt - they condemn what they do not understand

acta deos numquam mortalia fallunt - mortal actions never deceive the gods

qui totum vult totum perdit - he who wants everything, loses everything

cacoethes scribendi - the insatiable desire to write

death & war

media vita in morte sumus - in the midst of our lives we die

obit anus, abit onus - the old woman dies, the burden is lifted

aut vincere aut mori - either to conquer or to die

memento mori - remember [that you] die/remember your mortality

bellum se ipsum alet - war feeds itself

mors vincit omnia - death conquers all

eheu fugaces labuntur anni - alas, the fleeting years slip by

canis canem edit - dog eats dog

mortui vivos docent - the dead teach the living

nascentes morimur finisque ab origine pendet - when we are born to die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning

love

meminerunt omnia amantes - love remembers all

finis vitae sed non amoris - the end of life, but not of love

fons vitae caritas - love is the fountain of life