StephenS319C
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StephenS319C
@Stephen310C
All my treasure is in Minerva's tower.
Katılım Mayıs 2025
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[N]ullum enim est tempus, quod iustitia vacare debeat.
--Cicero, de Officiis. 1.64.
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In tragedy, truth is not revealed as one harmonious whole; it is many-faceted, ambiguous, a sum of irreconcilables--and that is one source of its terror.
--Richard B. Sewall
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Platōnis Timaeum in sermōnem Latīnum Cicerō interpretātus est. Brasiliensis quīdam ēditiōnem tribus sermōnibus, Graecō, Latīnō et Lusitānicō pūblicāvit.
“ō effrēnātam mercandī cupiditātem” Virtūs accūsat;
Mēns contrā causam dīcēns: “Immo incrēmentum animī” inquit.
Avāritia spoliāta in medium vēnit et clāmat: “parcendum sumptibus!”.
Cōnscientia tandem prō tribūnālī sedēns sententiam dīcit: “Ūsuī erit”.
Līs resolvitur, sēdātur illa sēditiō.
Latviešu
@Stephen310C Apud Tutubum multa sunt in canali Iohannis, qui "lectiones antiquae" vocatur. Utilissimum tamen omnium est illud @legentibusapp
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Iam duo tresve menses sunt cum libros Latinos recitatos quotidie audio. Initio non satis diu attentus esse poteram ut locos longiores quales apud optimos auctores habemus caperem. Nunc vero satis bene omnia teneo. Unde intellexi aciem auditūs acuendam esse singillatim.
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Gratia Apollonis:
Iuppiter est genitor; per me, quod eritque fuitque
estque, patet; per me concordant carmina nervis.
--Ovid, Metamorphoses, I.517-8.
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StephenS319C retweetledi
It is astonishing that anyone could regard literature as a mark of social distinction. I have never found in the cultivation of letters anything of that kind; perhaps because I was raised in the countryside of Minas Gerais, steeped in rural culture, I take the same pleasure in speaking with an illiterate man of the land about soil fertilization and varieties of grass as I do in discussing classical literature with someone of similar taste. Nor do I believe my experience to be exceptional, for agricultural life, poetry, and oratory walked hand in hand during the Roman Republic and the early years of the Principate: one need only think of Cato the Elder, Varro, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, and even Ovid.
Gusyeva@gusyeva_
Existe um tipo de pedantismo cultural em que a pessoa usa conhecimento como performance, quase como um mecanismo para marcar hierarquia: "Veja como sou sofisticado porque não tolero banalidades". Muita gente confunde erudição com superioridade moral ou intelectual absoluta e conversas triviais fazem parte da vida humana. Nem toda interação precisa virar um seminário acadêmico sobre metafísica russa às 8h da manhã na fila da padaria.
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@Stephen310C @strxwmxn Just sent you a profile link. I haven’t played in a long while, but I used to enjoy speed chess while on the train, commuting. Let’s play!
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@SchizoPolitico @strxwmxn I also learned from my dad, decades ago. Now I play--far too much--on line. I hope that you two will be evenly matched for awhile yet.
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@Stephen310C @strxwmxn I used to play a lot. Now I just play with my son. He was finally able to beat me on his own a few weeks ago. It’s great to be surpassed by your children.
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The first postwar concert by the Berlin Philharmonic took place on 26 May 1945 in Stegliz at the Palace. They played the Overture to Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream, as if to put the antisemitic past behind them.
--BR Klassik, "Was Heute Geschah." 26 May 2015.
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@Stephen310C @strxwmxn He didn’t seem like a Nazi or anything, it was just a little weird. He was also a chess champion. I played him once, and I won. His face turned red, and he got out his competition board and clock, and made me play him again. Fortunately for his blood pressure, he won after that.
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@strxwmxn The first and last libertarian I met IRL was a roommate in college, a philosophy major. He had Mein Kampf proudly displayed on his tiny bookshelf, which he made sure to tell everyone he had because, “you have to read everything.”
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@thebasecreates Shouldn't Sir Toby, apoplectic with rage, and Fabian, trying to calm him, be hiding in the bushes to add further depth to this embarrassing narcissism?
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The cruelty of comedy.
Project 39 continues with Twelfth Night - Act Two, Scene Five.
Malvolio’s name literally means ‘ill-will’. He is a curious presence in this light-hearted play. With his overly-strict moralism and hatred of all things fun, he is often thought to represent Puritanism. He is the butt of the joke and his mockery and downfall makes up the sub-plot of Twelfth Night. But, as so often with Shakespeare, the comedy gives way to something darker, crueller. He is relentlessly tormented, seems to go insane and is imprisoned. At the very end of the play, he is released, but he refuses to forgive and declares: “I will be reveng’d on the whole pack of you!”
This is perhaps Shakespeare’s most directly prophetic moment. Malvolio and the Puritans will have their revenge on Shakespeare and the theatre itself. The Puritan Long Parliament will close all theatres in England in 1642.
Malvolio is performed by Dominic Frisby
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ἄλλα δὲ μυρία λυγρὰ κατ' ἀνθρώπους ἀλάληται:
πλείη μὲν γὰρ γαῖα κακῶν, πλείη δὲ θάλασσα
νοῦσοι δ' ἀνθρώποισιν ἐφ' ἡμέρῃ, αἳ δ' ἐπὶ νυκτὶ
αὐτόματοι φοιτῶσι κακὰ θνητοῖσι φέρουσαι
σιγῇ, ἐπεὶ φωνὴν ἐξείλετο μητίετα Ζεύς.
--Hesiod, W&D
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@JaycelAdkins Plato makes clear in The Republic that the person who escapes the Cave and experiences Truth has a responsibility to return and tell the captives (though they're not likely to believe him).
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…so wandering, free and easy?
TaoistRōnin 🏴☠️@TaoistRonin
“Without the return, the hero's journey mutates into spiritual tourism, adrenaline narcissism, psychedelic consumerism, aesthetic self-mythology, or endless self-optimization. The person keeps crossing thresholds but never becomes more useful to anyone.”
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"That textual criticism is a waste of time will be always believed by those who accept the texts of Greek and Latin authors as coming from heaven above... therefore I preach only to those willing to ask the question, 'How do we have any knowledge of the Greek and Roman world?'" antigonejournal.com/2026/02/scienc…
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@AntigoneJournal Is "evidence" a verb? "It is imperative to"="we should" or "we must"?
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Waiting for the Latin version of this🍿 Could be iconic.
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
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