#tibullus

[lapithai]

Touched up some designs from 2019~2020. There's still many more I want to do.

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Return of Tibullus to Delia

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882)

Date: 1868

Medium: Watercolour and bodycolor with gum arabic on paper

Collection: Japanese Private Collection

Description

The Return of Tibullus to Delia was an unusual subject for Rossetti, based upon a classical Roman source – the first book of Tibullus’ Elegies, lines 82-92;

‘Live chaste, dear love; and while I’m far away, Be some old dame thy guardian night and day. She'll sing thee songs, and when the lamp is lit, Fly the full rock and draw long threads from it, So, unannounced, shall I come suddenly, As 'twere a presence sent from heaven to thee.'

[rebelzephyr104]

a bit of latin verse for this cold and blustery day

non ego divitias patrum fructusque requiro, quos tulit antiquo condita messis avo: parva seges satis est; satis est, requiescere lecto si licet et solito membra levare toro. quam iuvat immites ventos audire cubantem et dominam tenero continuisse sinu aut, gelidas hibernus aquas cum fuderit Auster, securum somnos igne iuvante sequi!

I don’t need the wealth of my forefathers, that the harvest brought my distant ancestors: a little field’s enough: enough to sleep in peace, and rest my limbs on the accustomed bed What joy to hear the raging winds as I lie there holding my girl to my tender breast, or when a wintry Southerly pours its icy showers, sleep soundly helped by an accompanying fire!

~Tib. 1.1.41

[latin-literature-tourney]

Latin Literature Tournament - Round 2

Tibullus or Sulpicia

TIbullus

Sulpicia

Voting ended onMay 12, 2024

Propaganda under the cut!

Tibullus Propaganda

The poorest little meow-meow of Latin elegy, while all of his lovers are bad bitches

He was so wonderfully bisexual. Wrote the longest poetic project about homosexuality in Latin lit, which is pretty lit

His style is really graceful and smooth, making for soft, easy reading

Sulpicia Propaganda:

Sulpicia does more in 40 lines than most poets do in thousands

If you don't vote for the only female poet of whom we have any significant chunks, you're sexist. I don't make the rules

She is so fucking funny, you guys. I laugh out loud every time I read her

[hortensius]

The Dead Romans Society - Vates

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[bones-ivy-breath]

Tibullus 2.4.21ff. (tr. Peter Bing and Rip Cohen), from Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid

[t0yearnf0r]

I’ve been writing my dissertation on Latin love elegy and up until now it has been ENTIRELY too heterosexual. Only now have I begun talking about homoeroticism. Disappointed. Will have to make it more gay

[lionofchaeronea]

Tibullus at Delia's House, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1866