NaArMaMo Day 6

[altariel]

I have been a bit short of time today. But then I remembered that gair needed an icon that said: "And now, back to the Aeneid." So here is one:



Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

Comments

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Sed cadat ante diem mediaque inhumatus arena!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Go on then, tell me what it means!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

(Or is it: "May you die alone and silent"?)

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

It's my curse of choice, from Dido's dying speech about Aeneas: "May he fall before his time and lie unburied in the middle of the sand!" Or the arena (so known because it was covered in sand to soak up the blood), or the tracking gallery, or wherever.

The story is that Charles I got this line when he attempted to use the Sortes Vergilianae, picking a line of Vergil at random to predict the future.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

So it is exactly like Cally's curse!

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, though Charles pulled in quite a big crowd and said something memorable. Then again, he got buried. I think Dido got the full works for Aeneas.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Is sand very effective as a blood soaker? I'd be thinking, maybe, sawdust. But the Romans usually knew what they were doing in matters sanguinary, I guess.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Optima.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It is no wall-mounted pie bib, but we aim to please ;-D

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

But what IS?

[gair.livejournal.com]

Dude, you win!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

A small gift for you.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That rocks...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

An excellent naart!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!