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Frederick the Great's Statue Incorporating Lucretius Motif

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    • June 14, 2018 at 3:56 PM
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    A friend asked me about something we have discussed here before, but I can't remember the resolution: Did we ever locate a picture of the statue which Frederick the Great had prepared of Phoebus Apollo holding a copy of Lucretius? Also, how do we translate the section that Frederick chose to inscribe on the book - "te socium studeo scribundis versibus esse, quos ego de rerum natura pangere conor" -- It is a part but not exactly what is translated here by Munro.

    If anyone has pictures please let me know. Martin, I can't remember if you were here for this discussion before. It might have been Uwe with whom I remember discussing this. (That exhausts my list of known German members of our group, but I bet there are others ;) )

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    “Apollo” (François Sigisbert Adam), Marble Hall of Sanssouci Palace:

    index.php?t=objekt&oges=7488&cachesLoaded=true

    The inscription „Te Sociam Studeo Scribundis Versibus Esse, Quos Ego De Rerum Natura Pangere Conor“ is rendered in English as “Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse which I presume on Nature to compose”.

    In front of Apollo there is a Venus Urania, by the same author:

    index.php?t=objekt&oges=7489&cachesLoaded=true

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    • March 25, 2019 at 10:28 AM
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    Thank you!



  • Cassius August 25, 2019 at 9:15 PM

    Changed the title of the thread from “Frederick the Great's Statue With Lucretius” to “Frederick the Great's Statue Incorporating Lucretius Motif”.

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