Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Panopticon
Prudentius, Liber Cathemerinon, no. 2 (Hymnus Matutinus), lines 105-112 (tr. H.J. Thomson):
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There is One that stands by watching from above, who each day views us and our doings from dawn of light till evening.Related post: Surveillance by Big Brother.
He is witness, He is judge; He looks on every thought the mind of man conceives, and this judge none can dupe.
speculator adstat desuper, 105
qui nos diebus omnibus
actusque nostros prospicit
a luce prima in vesperum.
hic testis, hic est arbiter,
hic intuetur quidquid est 110
humana quod mens concipit;
hunc nemo fallit iudicem.
