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    Happy Twentieth of July 2025!

    Vatican Saying 21: "Nature must be persuaded, not forced. And we will persuade nature by fulfilling the necessary desires, and the natural desires too if they cause no harm, but sharply rejecting the harmful desires".

    A joyous Twentieth to all!

    (I was out doing yard work this morning and time got away from me. I came in all sweaty and unpresenable at precisely 12:30!!)

    αὔριον εἰς λιτήν σε καλιάδα, φίλτατε Πείσων,
    ἐξ ἐνάτης ἕλκει μουσοφιλὴς ἕταρος,
    εἰκάδα δειπνίζων ἐνιαύσιον: εἰ δ᾽ ἀπολείψεις
    οὔθατα καὶ Βρομίου χιογενῆ πρόποσιν,
    ἀλλ᾽ ἑτάρους ὄψει παναληθέας, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπακούσῃ
    Φαιήκων γαίης πουλὺ μελιχρότερα:
    ἢν δέ ποτε στρέψῃς καὶ ἐς ἡμέας ὄμματα, Πείσων,
    ἄξομεν ἐκ λιτῆς εἰκάδα πιοτέρην.

    Translation?

    Hope to see you next time! :)

    It's just Philodemus' poem/invitation to Piso for the Twentieth. :)

    Philodemus: Epigrams - translation

    (11.44)

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