Friday, December 18, 2020

Reflexology

Litigat et podagra Diodorus, Flacce, laborat.
Sed nil patrono porrigit: haec cheragra est.

Diodorus goes to law, and suffers, Flaccus, from gout in the feet.
But he offers his advocate no fee: this is gout in the hand.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 1, XCVIII
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker

Bangkok, Thailand: A Sumatran orangutan, which was smuggled into the country, accepts a banana at Suvarnabhumi Airport before being repatriated to Indonesia. Photo: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images.

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