kallistoi: palatinamedea:Just posting this to try and work out if including a source for an image
kallistoi: palatinamedea: Just posting this to try and work out if including a source for an image works as a way of getting around Tumblr’s ‘no links in tags’ issue. But also - Horace, anyone? Please don’t repost. [image text: Horace Odes 4.7June 2019 The snows have fled, and the grass now grows anew in fieldsand greenery on trees —the earth in cycle turns, and rivers on the ebbrun by within their banks. The Graces and the nymphs now with their sisters dareto lead the dance undressed;“Hope not to live forever” warn the years and hourswhich steal the tender day. The west wind calms the cold, and summer tramples spring,which will itself be lostas soon as fruitful Autumn spreads its produce — thenthe stagnant winter comes. But moons are swift to heal what wounds the sky incurswhilst we will sink down therewhere good Aeneas went, and Ancus and Tullus divine —shadow and dust are we. Who knows if the gods on high will add to this day’s sumthe measure of the next?All which you grant to your own gracious heart evadesyour heir’s rapacious hands. When after you have died, and Minos has decreedhis honorable charge —Torquatus — never then will your nobilityor words or goodness return. For neither from infernal gloom Diana couldfree pure Hippolytusnor Theseus destroy the chains of Lethe forhis dearest Pirithous.] -- source link
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