G-Manicus Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Died this date in 48 B.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julius Ratus Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Adios muchacho... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingan Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Time to push down cookies on his grave again I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 G-Man, don't forget to memorialize M.P. Cato. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Manicus Posted September 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 G-Man, don't forget to memorialize M.P. Cato. I'll put it on my calendar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotWotius Posted September 29, 2007 Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Died this date in 48 B.C. *Groan* Good photoshopping though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Augusta Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus. God looks with favor on those who speak Latin. Gaius is not a part of that crew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 (edited) Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus. God looks with favor on those who speak Latin. Gaius is not a part of that crew. "Now is the time for drinking, now free feet will beat the earth." (Horatius, Carmina, Liber I, ode XXXVII, lines I-II): Sequitur. It's a classical Memento Mori, a remembrance of our mortality and that we should enjoy the moment. Edited September 30, 2007 by ASCLEPIADES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Thanks Big A. "Memento Mori" = ? (Remember to die?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Thanks Big A. "Memento Mori" = ? (Remember to die?) Exactly (or "remember you are mortal"). This one is the oldest dated Horacian ode, written about Cleopatra's death circa DCCXXIV AUC (30 BC). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 I thought that this was also whispered into a triumphators ear as he entered the City. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 I thought that this was also whispered into a triumphators ear as he entered the City. This famous phrase would be a similar Memento Mori, "Respice post te, hominem memento te" and it is, as far as I know, an Urban Legend propagated by the II Century Christian church leader and writer QSF Tertullianus on his Apologeticum (Ch. XXX, Sec. III-IV): "Negat illum imperatorem qui deum dicit; nisi homo sit, non est imperator. [4] Hominem se esse etiam triumphans in illo sublimissimo curru admonetur; suggeritur enim ei a tergo: "Respice post te! Hominem te memento!" Et utique hoc magis gaudet tanta se gloria coruscare, ut illi admonitio condicionis suae sit necessaria. Minor erat, si tunc deus diceretur, quia non vere diceretur. Maior est qui revocatur, ne se deum existimet. He who calls him a god, deprives him of the title of Emperor. He is not an Emperor unless he be a man. He is admonished of his human nature, even when he is riding in triumphal procession in his lofty chariot; for even then a person placed behind him whispers in his ear, "Look back : remember that thou art a man." And, in fact, the necessity that he should be thus admonished of his condition, adds to the satisfaction which he feels at the splendour which glitters around him. He would be really less, if he were then called a god; because it would be false. He is greater when he is recalled to himself, that he may not esteem himself a god." William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities specifically denies the confirmation of such assertion by any earlier writer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Big A, I'm confused. That's not unusual though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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