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here’s a very old sketch of keki ( @thxwxlf ) and my boys. the boys are on retirement now so i’m not likely to finish this, except for keki maybe at some point 👀 you know... i just had a mighty need to give her a leather jacket fjaspofja
[Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius]
[(fol. 442r) CA Gg. V. 35, University of Cambridge, University Library]
– Cum Phoebi radiis
Cum Phoebi radiis graue / cancri sidus inaestuat, / tum qui larga negantibus / sulcis semina credidit / elusus Cereris fide / quernas pergat ad arbores. / Numquam purpureum nemus / lecturus uiolas petas / cum saeuis Aquilonibus / stridens campus inhorruit; / nec quaeras auida manu / uernos stringere palmites / uuis si libeat frui; / autumno potius sua / Bacchus munera contulit. / Signat tempora propriis / aptans officiis deus / nec quas ipse cohercuit / misceri patitur uices. / Sic quod praecipiti uia / certum deserit ordinem / laetos non habet exitus. //
[Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae, I : M6]
– Nubibus atris
Nubibus atris / condita nullum / fundere possunt / sidera lumen. / Si mare uoluens / turbidus auster / misceat aestum, / uitrea dudum / par que serenis / unda diebus / mox resoluto / sordida caeno / uisibus obstat, / quique uagatur / montibus altis / defluus amnis / saepe resistit / rupe soluti / obice saxi / tu quoque si uis / lumine claro / cernere uerum, / tramite recto / carpere callem: / gaudia pelle, / pelle timorem / spemque fugato / nec dolor adsit, / nubila mens est / uincta que frenis / haec ubi regnant. //
[Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae, I : M7]
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Boethius: Songs Of Consolation – Metra from 11th-century Canterbury
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