Seen that post about Odysseus being naked when the fight with the suitors starts ?
Well, in the same vein, Vergil, in the first Georgic, literally says that, as a farmer, you should work naked when it’s too hot outside
(Plough naked, sow naked)
And I think that’s beautiful
reblogging this again because i discovered vergil here is reprising hesiod (works and days l. 391-392):
(sow naked, plough naked, reap naked)
and it’s beautiful because this is truly the intertextuality that matters
This is the most cursed tag someone ever put under one of my posts thanks
@uncarnetmaisvirtuel remember me saying that my Latin is better than my French? This makes me wish my French was just that little bit worse, so I could unsee this.
Okay, I just need to add this:
In my country, there is a comedy show with the premise that a bunch of comedians get confronted with a weird word or phrase and then have to figure out its meaning. One time, they got the question “What was the pubic hair revolt?” One of the comedians suggested that back in the old days people figured out that you can cut it because otherwise it would “get all tangled up in harvesting tools” to which the host replied “Who the hell harvests naked??”
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