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Lesso, Rosie. "Who Is Ares in Greek Mythology?" TheCollector.com, April 29, 2022, https://www.thecollector.com/who-is-ares-in-greek-mythology/.
Lesso, Rosie. "Who Is Ares in Greek Mythology?" TheCollector.com, April 29, 2022, https://www.thecollector.com/who-is-ares-in-greek-mythology/.
"Lvgete, o Veneres Cupidinesque,
et quantumst hominum venustiorum.
passer mortuus est meae puellae,
passer, deliciae meae puellae,
quem plus illa oculis suis amabat:
nam mellitus erat suamque norat
ipsam tam bene quam puella matrem;
nec sese a gremio illius movebat,
sed circumsiliens modo huc modo illuc
ad solam dominam usque pipiabat.
qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum
illuc, unde negant redire quemquam.
at vobis male sit, malae tenebrae
Orci, quae omnia bella devoratis:
tam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis.
o factum male! o miselle passer!
tua nunc opera meae puellae
flendo turgiduli rubent ocelli."
– Catullus, Poems, III
Image: The Sparrow of Lesbia by Guillaume Charles Brun, 1860
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Omnia Vincit Amor
"Iane, veni: novus anne, veni: renovate veni, sol. Tu tropicum soli da cedere, rursus et illum terga dare, ut duplex tropico varietur ab astro et quater a ternis properet mutatio signis. aestivos inpelle dies brumamque morantem noctibus adceleret promissus Caesaris annus. illum ego si cernam, tum terque quaterque beatus, tunc ero bis consul, tunc tangam vertice caelum."
– Ausonius, Personal Poems, Precatio Consulis Designati Pridie Kalendas Ianuarias Fascibus Sumptis, 49-56
Image: “Bust-Herma: Two-Faced Janus”, Italian sculptor, late 18th century, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
"Come, Janus; come, New Year; come, Sun, with strength renewed! Cause the one Tropic to give place to the Sun and again, make that other flee; that twice he (the Sun) may move through his changes from the Tropic Star and four times hasten to pass on from the three grouped Signs. Urge on the summer days, and let Caesar’s promised year speed the winter with its laggard nights. If I behold that year, then shall I be thrice, nay four times blessed; then shall I be doubly consul, then my head shall touch heaven itself."
(the last verse of A Solemn Prayer by Ausonius as Consul-designate, when he assumed the Insignia of Office on the Eve of the Kalends of January
