Sunday, April 24, 2011
What Animates a House
Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.8.2 (mid-April, 56 B.C., tr. E.O. Winstedt):
Photographs of a friend's house:
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Since Tyrannio has arranged my books, the house seems to have acquired a soul.See Andrew R. Dyck, “Mens Addita. Cicero, Ad Atticum 4.8.2,” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 146 (2003) 425.
postea vero quam Tyrannio mihi libros disposuit, mens addita videtur meis aedibus.
Photographs of a friend's house:
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