Friday, August 3, 2018

Equality Matters

Cum te non nossem, dominum regemque vocabam:
nunc bene te novi: iam mihi Priscus eris.

When I did not know you, I called you lord and king:
Now I know you well: henceforth you shall be to me Priscus.

Finché non ti conobbi, e signore e re ti chiamai;
ora che ben ti conosco, per me solo Prisco sarai.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 1, CXII
English translation by Holden Caulfield
Italian translation by Giuseppe Lipparini

Paul Klee, Woman With Parasol (1883–5). Credit: Catalogue raisonné vol. 1, number 15.

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