vir facie, mulier gestu, sed crure quod ambo,
jurgia naturae nullo discrimine solvens,
es lepus, et tanti conculcas colla leonis.
// Ennodius, Epigram LII (c. 500)
Man in appearance, lady in gesture, but in between the legs a bit of both,
resolving nature's quarrels by ignoring its distinctions,
you're a hare, and you stand on the neck of a mighty lion.
1 comment:
the idea of resolving a quarrel by ignoring distinctions: surprisingly uplifting. a unity of total alterity toward the good end of bringing peace
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