Wednesday, October 13, 2021
The Triumph of Death
Manilius 4.16 (tr. G.P. Goold):
The illustration above comes from the Art Institute of Chicago, which recently fired all 122 of its docents.
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At birth our death is sealed, and our end is consequent upon our beginning.Propertius 2.28.58 (tr. H.E. Butler):
nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet.
Sooner or later death awaiteth all.These quotations appear at the bottom of The Triumph of Death, by Georg Pencz (1500-1550):
longius aut propius mors sua quemque manet.
