#LatinForTheDay – 22 April #Ovid 🧵

“dum loquor, hora fugit. vacuae bene redde tabellas,
verum continuo fac tamen illa legat.
adspicias oculos mando frontemque legentis;
e tacito vultu scire futura licet.
nec mora, perlectis rescribat multa, iubeto;...

#MosaicMonday - The viscerally stunning 'Exhausted Gladiator' mosaic from the frigidarium in baths of the Roman villa at Wadi Lebda, Lepcis Magna, Libya: ca. Early 2nd Century AD. That border is hypnotic! #Roman #Art

Image: Kathleen M. Coleman. Link - doi.org/10.1017/S00173…

#MosaicMonday - The brilliantly idiosyncratic Rudston Venus Mosaic: ca. Late 3rd Century AD, from a villa in East Yorkshire. She holds the Golden Apple, with an attendant Triton recalling her sea-birth. #Venus #Art

Image: Hull & East Riding Museum. Link - museumshull.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-ru…

Likely #OnThisDay - 22 April - in AD 238, following the defeat of the Gordians, the Senate confirm Pupienus and Balbinus as co-emperors in order to oppose Maximinus Thrax. #YearOfTheSixEmperors

Image: RIC IV Pupienus 9A; ANS 1944.100.13004. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.…

I've spent my day talking to people about Nero, Pentadius, Apuleius, Ovid, Julia Domna, Pompeii, and various other bits-and-pieces of #AncientStuff - there are worse ways of spending one's time! 😊

Good to see Dopey still getting work. #DeadpoolAndWolverine #LFG

#MosaicMonday - The viscerally stunning 'Exhausted Gladiator' mosaic from the frigidarium in baths of the Roman villa at Wadi Lebda, Lepcis Magna, Libya: ca. Early 2nd Century AD. That border is hypnotic! #Roman #Art

Image: Kathleen M. Coleman. Link - doi.org/10.1017/S00173…

#MosaicMonday - The brilliantly idiosyncratic Rudston Venus Mosaic: ca. Late 3rd Century AD, from a villa in East Yorkshire. She holds the Golden Apple, with an attendant Triton recalling her sea-birth. #Venus #Art

Image: Hull & East Riding Museum. Link - museumshull.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-ru…

Likely #OnThisDay - 22 April - in AD 238, following the defeat of the Gordians, the Senate confirm Pupienus and Balbinus as co-emperors in order to oppose Maximinus Thrax. #YearOfTheSixEmperors

Image: RIC IV Pupienus 9A; ANS 1944.100.13004. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.…

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#OnThisDay - 21 April - in 43 BC Mark Antony is defeated at the Battle of Mutina. But the deaths of the consuls Pansa and Hirtius in the campaign, provided Octavian with an opportunity for power.

Image: RRC 517/1a; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200242). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-51…

#OnThisDay - 21 April - in 753 BC the city of Rome is founded. #NatalediRoma

As Ovid says:

'ipse locus causas vati facit. urbis origo venit.'

'The moment gives motivation to the bard. The founding of the City is come!' (Fasti 4.807-808)

#OnThisDay - 21 April - in 43 BC Mark Antony is defeated at the Battle of Mutina. But the deaths of the consuls Pansa and Hirtius in the campaign, provided Octavian with an opportunity for power.

Image: RRC 517/1a; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200242). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-51…