birthday wishes around the world....
to our intrepid explorer and roving reporter Down & Out in Morocco and Spain:
for yesterday...wishing you 30 big ones - one for each year of your life.
Enjoy the path to Santiago pilgrim - and in the words of Albius Tibullus:
To the Genius of a Friend on his Birthday
Dicamus bona verba: venit Natalis ad aras: quisquis ades, lingua, vir mulierque, fave.
Urantur pia tura focis, urantus odores tener e terra divite mittit Arabs. Ipse suos Clenius adsit visurus honores, cui decorent sanctas mollia serta comas. Illius puro destillent tempora nardo, atque satur libo sit madeatque mero, adnuat et, Cornute, tibi, quodcumque rogabis.
Speak no ill words today, good men and women, as we honour our friend on his birthday. Burn frankincense, burn fragrant herbs from lands at the very ends of the earth, even those sent from Arabia. His own spirit comes to receive his honours, a holy wreath to crown his soft crown of hair. This pure nard distilled for his temples and, sated on wine and honey cakes, he gives his assent. And to you, Cornutus, may everything you wish for be granted. II.ii.1-9
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
for yesterday...wishing you 30 big ones - one for each year of your life.
Enjoy the path to Santiago pilgrim - and in the words of Albius Tibullus:
To the Genius of a Friend on his Birthday
Dicamus bona verba: venit Natalis ad aras: quisquis ades, lingua, vir mulierque, fave.
Urantur pia tura focis, urantus odores tener e terra divite mittit Arabs. Ipse suos Clenius adsit visurus honores, cui decorent sanctas mollia serta comas. Illius puro destillent tempora nardo, atque satur libo sit madeatque mero, adnuat et, Cornute, tibi, quodcumque rogabis.
Speak no ill words today, good men and women, as we honour our friend on his birthday. Burn frankincense, burn fragrant herbs from lands at the very ends of the earth, even those sent from Arabia. His own spirit comes to receive his honours, a holy wreath to crown his soft crown of hair. This pure nard distilled for his temples and, sated on wine and honey cakes, he gives his assent. And to you, Cornutus, may everything you wish for be granted. II.ii.1-9
Happy Birthday
posted by Anonymous at 8:58 am
3 Comments:
Right on!
That's beautiful Kissa.
Happy birthday Down and Out on a Pilgrimage. Thinkin of ya - remember me to Navalagamella if you pass anywhere near that region
xx
Well, he certainly burnt the fragrant herbs in Arabia...
Happy birthday DaO for what its worth, I hope you are on the road somewhere happily oblivious to the date.
you don't know latin, kissa. you copied that out from a book or some bookmark you picked up in a european museum. go on, come clean.
and happy bday Down.
aeneas.
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