quasi papavere et sesamo sparsa

Martial IV.4 // Studying with your darling on holiday in Italy

just some drabbles! i really hope you guys like it :) 

Our Lady Of Sorrows // Supernatural 1x05, 4x16, 8x17

“Flecks of light swam in my eyes. I thought of atoms, molecules, things so small you couldn’t even see them.” - The Secret History, Donna Tartt

Mellitos verborum globulos et omnia dicta factaque quasi papavere et sesamo sparsa. // Honey-balls of phrases, every word and act besprinkled with poppy-seed and sesame. - Petronius, Satyricon, Tr.  Michael Heseltine

Menander, False Herakles

Plutarch, Tr. Bernadotte Perrin // Benjamin West (Antiochus and Strationice) // Herbert Jenkins // Sylvia Plath // Jan Steen (The Lovesick Maiden) // Hozier

Martial VII.69, anonymous translator

Charles Baudelaire tr. James McGowan // Sylvia Plath // Hozier // Herbert Jenkins // Donna Tartt // William Shakespeare // Anne Carson

greco-roman sculpture in painting; cosway / piacenza / zoffany