And sing your praises, sacred Terminus:
‘You set bounds to peoples, cities, great kingdoms:
Without you every field would be disputed.
You curry no favour: you aren’t bribed with gold,
Guarding the land entrusted to you in good faith.
--Ovid, Fasti (translated by A.S. Kline)
‘You set bounds to peoples, cities, great kingdoms:
Without you every field would be disputed.
You curry no favour: you aren’t bribed with gold,
Guarding the land entrusted to you in good faith.
--Ovid, Fasti (translated by A.S. Kline)
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Andrew
Today is Terminalia, the festival of Terminus, Roman god of boundaries, whose credo CONCEDO NVLLI ("I yield to no one") I offer without comment.
Photo by Humphrey Bolton, 2013 (Wikimedia Commons)
Photo by Humphrey Bolton, 2013 (Wikimedia Commons)
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