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Proscriptum famulus servavit fronte notata. Non fuit haec domini vita, sed invidia. A branded slave saved his proscribed master’s head. This was to give his master not life, but lifelong shame. Uno schiavo in catene salva la vita al padrone in disgrazia e così lo condanna all’eterna vergogna. Martial, Epigrams, Book 3, XXI English translation by Holden Caulfield Italian translation by Mado Flynn

Pablo Picasso, Femme assise (Seated woman), 1909. Credit: Umělecký Mĕsíčník, Volume 1, Number 9, June 1912, Blue Mountain Project, Princeton University.