Quote of the Day: Horace

[Inspiration Bot]

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

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[Razors Edge ★]

...and is the tongue the pen of the mind?  

With a pen, you write down your mind's thoughts. With a tongue, you speak your mind's thoughts.  

IOW, WTF is Horace writing about??? And I bet he said the same thing at some point too. 

[donkpow]

2 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

...and is the tongue the pen of the mind?  

With a pen, you write down your mind's thoughts. With a tongue, you speak your mind's thoughts.  

IOW, WTF is Horace writing about??? And I bet he said the same thing at some point too. 

Yes but when you drool, it's not a permanent stain. Ink makes a permanent stain.

[Razors Edge ★]

Just now, donkpow said:

Yes but when you drool, it's not a permanent stain. Ink makes a permanent stain.

What remains from the Great Library of Alexandria?  Around Horace's time, wiki blames directly/indirectly, those rotten Romans!

Despite the widespread modern belief that the Library of Alexandria was burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, the Library actually declined gradually over the course of several centuries. This decline began with the purging of intellectuals from Alexandria in 145 BC during the reign of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, which resulted in Aristarchus of Samothrace, the head librarian, resigning from his position and exiling himself to Cyprus. Many other scholars, including Dionysius Thrax and Apollodorus of Athens, fled to other cities, where they continued teaching and conducting scholarship. The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter; the geographer Strabo mentions having visited the Mouseion in around 20 BC and the prodigious scholarly output of Didymus Chalcenterus in Alexandria from this period indicates that he had access to at least some of the Library's resources.

[donkpow]

2 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

What remains from the Great Library of Alexandria?  Around Horace's time, wiki blames directly/indirectly, those rotten Romans!

Despite the widespread modern belief that the Library of Alexandria was burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, the Library actually declined gradually over the course of several centuries. This decline began with the purging of intellectuals from Alexandria in 145 BC during the reign of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, which resulted in Aristarchus of Samothrace, the head librarian, resigning from his position and exiling himself to Cyprus. Many other scholars, including Dionysius Thrax and Apollodorus of Athens, fled to other cities, where they continued teaching and conducting scholarship. The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter; the geographer Strabo mentions having visited the Mouseion in around 20 BC and the prodigious scholarly output of Didymus Chalcenterus in Alexandria from this period indicates that he had access to at least some of the Library's resources.

Did you see that on the History Channel, too? You'll want to run it by @MickinMD for veracity and @Mr. Beanz for voracity.

[Razors Edge ★]

Just now, donkpow said:

Did you see that on the History Channel, too? You'll want to run it by @MickinMD for veracity and @Mr. Beanz for voracity.

That's the Bible of historical facts!  

[Wilbur ★]

I thought the tongue was the tongue of the mind? 

[donkpow]

33 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

I thought the tongue was the tongue of the mind? 

What are you talking about, lengua?