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.
Monday, March 31, 2025
Elephant, detail of the 6th century mosaic floor from the Palatium Magnum (Constantinople’s Great Palace), Istanbul.
Beautifully done.
ReplyDeletePalatium Magnum is of course a Latin name, but both Greek and Latin were used in the Eastern Roman Empire. I wonder what the Greeks called it.
ReplyDeleteOK, I looked it up. Not really all that different.
Méga Palátion
Makes modern "art" look even more like the garbage it is.
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