And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The old sea god Okeanos, holding an oar and sporting crab claw horns, holds court with the fishes of the sea. Mosaic, 2nd century AD, Antakya Museum, Antakya, Turkey. One can only imagine how fine this looked when it was new.
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