The Visible and the Invisible

Hostem cum fugeret, se Fannius ipse peremit. Hic, rogo, non furor est, ne moriare, mori? Because he was flying from an enemy, Fannius slew himself. Is not this, I ask, madness — to die to avoid death?

Martial, Epigrams, Book 2, LXXX
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker

A visitor takes a picture of The Rape of Europa, part of Titian’s series of large scale Greek mythological paintings called “poesie” (“poetry”) that feature in the Titian: Love, Desire, Death exhibition, at the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. Photo: PA.