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Equo ne credite, Teucri.
Quidquid id est,
timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

Don't trust them, Trojans.
Whatever it may be,
I fear the Dànai,
and more when they offer gifts.

Virgil
Aeneid
II, 48-49

Artwork
Fabio Viale
Laocoonte
2024

De situatie doet me denken aan Laocoön - de priester die de Trojanen waarschuwde voor het paard

Equo ne credite, Teucri, riep hij.

Het geschenk van de Grieken zou tot de ondergang van hun stad leiden

We weten allemaal hoe het afgelopen is met Troje.

Teucri: a possible #Teucri linguistic link has been suggested with the #Tjekker, one of the later #SeaPeoples, with apparently some archaeological evidence to support this theory.

www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsMid...

#history #historyfiles #neareast #ancientworld #bronzeage #bronzeagecollapse

Llorer, ginesta de flor blanca i teucri blau. La importància vital dels parcs urbans.
Alacant.

“Aliquis latet error; PackHum ne credite, Teucri.”

Equo ne credite, Teucri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
h/t @billbramhall.bsky.social

😍 👍 Trojan priest Laocoön suspects some menace is hidden in the horse & warns Trojans to not accept the gift, crying, "Equō nē crēdite, Teucrī! Quidquid id est, timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs". ( "Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Danaans, even when bringing gifts". )

3) about 2.5 years ago now @wilemist.bsky.social asked me about making him a batch of 1/1 Pegasus tokens for his next Extra Life fundraiser in the form of his mascot, Teucri. I am grateful for the challenge and I learned a lot about my own process making them. (I printed 50+, one a time)

"Here was the ancient line of Teucer, a most beautiful race, great-souled heroes, born in better times [...] From far off, Aeneas marvels at the warriors' arms and empty chariots"
(Verg. Aen. 648-51)

not gonna lie, I got a bit of ptsd from the Hades game when I read this passage.

Y sabemos su hoja de ruta

Equo ne credite, Teucri / Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
No confiéis en el caballo, troyanos. Sea lo que sea, temo a los dánaos (griegos), aun portando regalos.

Despertemos!

timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.

popcorn ne credite, Teucri 🤣

Equo no credite teucri...

Virgilio, en la Eneida (libro II, 49) puso en labios de Laocooonte la frase: "Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes."

La cosa acabó mal para él y sus hijos.
📷 Laocoonte y sus hijos - Agesandro, Polidoro y Atenodoro.

Vergil really cooked when he wrote those lines:

www.thelatinlibrary.com/vergil/aen2....

it's fuckin magnificent

"umbra magna terramque polumque Myrmidonumque dolos"

It's so beautiful to read it's so rare with Latin for the tongue to also love it. Terramque polumque Myrmidonumque. Glorious.

And yes Virgil writes "inclusos utero Danaos", imprisoned in the womb.

Letting in the Horse (Trojan or not) paradelle.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/l...