Wednesday, January 9, 2019

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Cum sitis similes paresque vita,
uxor pessima, pessimus maritus,
miror, non bene convenire vobis.

Both man and wife as bad as bad can be,
I wonder they no better should agree.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 8, XXXV
English translation by William Hay

Pie Face by Banksy (2006) finds his soulmate in the Woman with Petrarchino by Andrea del Sarto (c. 1528).

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