All that's needed now is a Latin version.
Posted on 11/30/2022 9:53:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Marine archaeologists have located a "unique" ancient temple lost beneath the seabed close to the site of what has been dubbed the "Las Vegas" of the Roman Empire.
The temple, thought to date to around 2,000 years ago, is positioned on the opposite side of the Gulf of Pozzuoli to Rome's "Sin City."
This ancient city, known as Baiae, was the playground of the Roman elite in its heyday. A fashionable coastal resort, Rome's rich and powerful built luxurious villas at the site—including the emperors Julius Caesar, Nero, and Hadrian—attracted by its beautiful setting and healing natural hot springs, not to mention its reputation for hedonistic partying.
Seneca, the famous Roman stoic philosopher, summed up the atmosphere, writing in a letter after visiting Baiae that the city had become a resort of "vice" while bemoaning that it was a "place to be avoided."
"Though it has certain natural advantages, luxury has claimed it for her own exclusive resort... To witness persons wandering drunk along the beach, the riotous reveling of sailing parties, the lakes a-din with choral song, and all the other ways in which luxury, when it is, so to speak, released from the restraints of law not merely sins, but blazons its sins abroad—why must I witness all this?" he wrote.
But Baiae's partying eventually came to end thanks to an unfortunate choice of location. The Gulf of Pozzuoli—which itself forms the western part of the much larger Gulf of Naples—lies in the caldera of a super-volcano known as the Phlegrean Fields, or Campi Flegrei in Italian.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Nobody told Seneca “If you don’t like it, don’t go there”?
Movement of magma, yeah, as I’ve gotten older, in the morning it takes a while. Wait, what?
All that's needed now is a Latin version.
“Seneca is the only Roman writer to condemn the bloody Games.”
(8) Graffiti found in the gladiators’ barracks in Pompeii (c. AD 79)
[snip] The gladiators have nothing to protect them: their bodies are utterly open to every blow: every thrust finds its mark... Most people prefer this kind of thing to all other matches... The sword is not checked by helmet or shield. What good is armour? What good is swordsmanship? All these things only put off death a little. In the morning men are matched with lions and bears, at noon with their spectators... death is the fighters’ only exit. [/snip]
(1) Seneca, Moral Epistles (c. AD 60)
https://spartacus-educational.com/ROMgames.htm
In Roman times, the coral was harvested near Sicily and sold for top denarii in India. Wait, what?
Yes red coral from the Mediterranean was a major export item for the Monsoon Trade with India. Rome using the Red Sea and Indian Ocean traded with India. The Roman silver Dinarius, woollens, wine and red coral were exported in return for spices, silks, precious stones, and ointments.
I would like to buy a coffee cup with that quotation on it.
“Lead us not into temptation,
just show us where it is!”
Lol!
I’m sure there’s one out there. :^)
an oldie, found while looking for something else, ref to:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4255115/posts?page=6#6
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