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🏛 Sunset in Latin, somewhere in the Cycladic islands.
🏛 "A solis ortu usque ad occasum laudabile nomen Domini." (Psalmi, 113.3)
🇬🇧 "From the rising of the sun to its going down The Lord’s name is to be praised." (Psalm, 113.3)
🇨🇵 "Du lever du soleil jusqu'à son couchant, Que le nom de l'Éternel soit célébré!" (Psaumes 113.3)
🇪🇦 "De la salida del sol hasta su ocaso, alabado sea el nombre del Señor." (Salmos, 113.3)

#sunsets
#cycladicislands
#greece
#latinlanguage
#aegeansea taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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🏛 Sailing in Latin (somewhere in the Aegean sea): Horace invokes Venus, the Dioscuri (the stars protecting sailors) and Aeolus to ensure Virgil a safe passage to Greece
🏛 "Sic te diva potens Cypri, sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera, ventorumque regat pater obstrictis aliis praeter Iapyga, navis, quae tibi creditum debes Vergilium; finibus Atticis reddas incolumem precor et serves animae dimidium meae." (Horatius, Carmina III.1)
🇬🇧 "May the powerful goddess of Cyprus, may Helen’s brothers, those shining stars, and the father of the winds guide you, O ship, holding back all other winds except the Iapyx; you, to whom Virgil has been entrusted, bring him safe and sound to the shores of Attica, I pray, and preserve for me the half of my soul." (Horace, Odes; I.3)
🇪🇦 "Que la diosa poderosa de Chipre, que los hermanos de Helena, luminosos astros, y el padre de los vientos te guíen, oh nave, reteniendo a todos los demás, salvo al Iápige; tú, a quien ha sido confiado Virgilio, devuélvelo sano y salvo a las costas de Ática, te lo ruego, y guarda para mí la mitad de mi alma." (Horacio, Odas, I.3)
#sailing
#greece
#aegeansea
#horace
#virgil taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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5 days ago

Byzantine art : replica of the famous revered icon of Panagia Myrtidiotissa (Our Lady of the Myrtle Tree) located inside the Hagia Triada Cathedral (Church of the Holy Trinity) in Piraeus, Greece.

#byzantineart
#greece
#piraeus
#orthodoxchristianity
#orthodoxchurch taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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9 days ago

Romanesque architecture in the province of Soria (Spain): magnificent portico of the 12th-century church of the ‘Virgen del Rivero’ in San Esteban de Gormaz.
#soria #architecture #spain #romanesquechurch taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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a month ago

The river Nervion flowing through Bilbao.
🏛 "Cum transieris per aquas, tecum ero, et flumina non operient te." (Isaias, 43:2)
🇬🇧 "When you pass through the water, I will be with you; in the rivers you shall not drown." (Isaias, 43:2)
🇨🇵 "Quand tu passeras par les eaux, je serai avec toi, quand tu traverseras les fleuves, ils ne te submergeront pas." (Isaias, 43:2)
🇪🇦 "Cuando cruces las aguas, yo estaré contigo; cuando cruces los ríos, no te cubrirán sus aguas." (Isaias, 43:2)

#bilbao #basquecountry #spain #rivers #bilbaocity taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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🏛 Sunflowers in the fields of Soria (Spain). In Ovid's Fasti, the author evokes the celebration of the Carmentalia and quotes Carmentis, metaphorically announcing the arrival of spring, to encourage her son Evander, who will finally reach Hesperian lands.
🏛 "nec fera tempestas toto tamen horret in anno: et tibi, crede mihi, tempora veris erunt." (P. Ovidius Nasus, Fasti, I, 495)
🇬🇧 "The storm does not rage throughout the whole year, and, believe me, springtime will come to you too." (Ovid, Fasti, I, 495)
🇪🇦 "La tempestad no dura todo el año, y créeme, la primavera también llegará para ti." (Ovidio, Fastos, I, 365)
#soria
#spain
#sunflower
#spring
#latinlanguage taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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a month ago

🇨🇵 Paris (Lutetia Parisiorum 🏛) : Magnificent Art Nouveau stained-glass dome at Galeries Lafayette. 🎶 "... ce soir Paris murmure ..." 🎶
#paris
#france
#galerieslafayette
#architecture
#artnouveau taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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2 months ago

Fabulous stained-glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle (Paris), commissioned by King Louis IX of France (picture 2) and built in the 13th century.

#paris
#france
#saintechapelle
#saintlouis
#architecture taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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Two charming pictures from the painting ‘La lecture dans le parc, un après-midi d’automne’ by Théo Van Rysselberghe, which decorates the staircase of the Hotel Solvay (Brussels).
🏛 "Tale tuom carmen nobis, divine poeta, quale sopor fessis in gramine, quale per aestum
dulcis aquae saliente sitim restinguere rivo." (P. Vergilius Maro, Ecogla, V)
🇬🇧 "Divine poet, your song to me is like sleep, on the grass, to the weary, like slaking one’s thirst, in summer, in a dancing stream of sweet water.' (Virgil, The Bucolics, V)
🇨🇵 "Tel est pour nous ton chant, divin poète, comme le sommeil pour les hommes las sur l’herbe, comme, dans la chaleur, étancher sa soif à l’eau douce d’un ruisseau bondissant.' (Virgile, Bucoliques, V)
🇪🇦 "Así es tu canto para nosotros, divino poeta, como el sueño para los fatigados en la hierba, como un arroyo de agua dulce que brota para saciar la sed en medio del calor.' (Virgilio, Bucólicas, V)

#brussels
#belgium
#latinlanguage
#hotelsolvay
#architecture taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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🍺 Beer in Latin: the picture shows sections of the beer-themed flower carpet installed by the Belgian Beer World Experience inside the Brussels Stock Exchange. St Isidore of Sevilla, author of an outstanding 7th century’s Latin ‘encyclopaedia’ (Etymologiae), mentions two kinds of beer:
🏛 "Cervisia a Cerere, id est fruge vocata; est enim potio ex seminibus frumenti vario modo confecta. Caelia a calefaciendo appellata; est enim potio ex suco tritici per artem confecta … Quae fit in his partibus Hispaniae cuius ferax vini locus non est. Fex dicta, quod sese vasis emergendo adfigat." (Etymologiae, XX, 3, 17-18)
🇬🇧 "Cervisia is so called from Ceres, that is, from grain; for it is a drink made in various ways from the seeds of grain. Caelia is called from calefacere (“to heat”); for it is a drink made by a process from the juice of wheat. … This drink is made in those regions of Spain where the land is not productive of wine." (Etymologies, XX, 3, 17-18)
🇪🇦 "La cerveza (cervisia), toma su nombre de Ceres, es decir, del grano; pues es una bebida elaborada de diversas maneras a partir de las semillas de los cereales. Caelia, llamada así de calefacere («calentar»); pues es una bebida elaborada a partir del jugo del trigo mediante un procedimiento técnico determinado … Esta bebida se produce en aquellas regiones de Hispania cuyo terreno no es fértil para producir vino." (Etimologías, XX, 3, 17-18)

#beer
#flowercarpet
#brussels
#belgium
#latinlanguage taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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2 months ago

Hotel Solvay (Avenue Louise 224, Brussels): one of the Art Nouveau town houses designed and built by Victor Horta. It was commissioned by Armand Solvay and built at the end of the 19th century. The picture shows the painting ‘La lecture dans le parc, un après-midi d’automne’ by Théo Van Rysselberghe, which decorates the staircase of the house. In 2000 the Hotel Solvay was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

#brussels
#belgium
#hotelsolvay
#victorhorta
#architecture taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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Beer in Latin 🏛: In 2026 (13/16 August) a beer-themed flower carpet was installed inside the Brussels Stock Exchange by the Belgian Beer World Experience. Among the various references to beer in classical Latin literature, Pliny the Elder stands out:
🏛 "Ex iisdem fiunt et potus, zythum in Aegypto, caelia et cerea in Hispania, cervesia et plura genera in Galia aliisque provinciis, quorum omnium spuma cutem feminarum in facie nutrit. "(Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia, XXII, 164)
🇬🇧 "From cereals are made drinks, zythum in Egypt, ‘celia’ and ‘cerea’ in Spain, beer and many other kinds in Gaul and other provinces, the foam of all of which nourishes the skin of women's faces." (Pliny the Elder ,
🇨🇵 "Les céréales fournissent aussi des boissons : le zythum en Égypte, la ‘célia’ et la ‘céréa’ en Espagne, la bière et bien d’autres en Gaule et ailleurs, dont la mousse nourrit la peau du visage des femmes." (Pline l’Ancien, Histoire Naturelle, XXII, 164)
🇪🇦 "De los cereales se elaboran bebidas: zythum en Egipto, ‘celia’ y ‘cerea’ en España, cerveza y muchas otras en la Galia y otras provincias, cuya espuma nutre la piel del rostro de las mujeres." (Plinio el Viejo, Historia Natural, XXII, 164)

#brussels
#belgium
#flowers
#flowercarpet
#beer taken in Brussels, Belgium by @iri__je

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