Wednesday, September 18, 2019

The more you look, the less you want to see

Si solum spectes hominis caput, Hectora credas:
si stan tem videas, Astyanacta putes.

If you regard the man’s head alone
You would believe him Hector;
If you saw him standing
You would deem him Astyanax.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 9, CCXII
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker

常玉 (Cháng Yù), Reclining Nude, 1931. Credit: WikiArt.

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