chelidonart:Here’s a piece that I drew just to have fun: I’ve always loved Quintilian’s description

chelidonart:Here’s a piece that I drew just to have fun: I’ve always loved Quintilian’s description of Ovid as nimium amator ingenii sui (that loves too much his own wit), because not only it is completely true (and I love him for that), but also because I’m 90% sure he would very self-consciously laugh at that and put it on a t-shirt to wear. So I did that. I added Catullus, partly to honor my thesis, because I also love that marvelous poem that Catullus writes to Cicero, Cat. 49, which goes: “Most eloquent of Romulus’ descendants, of those who are, were, and will be, oh Marcus Tullius, I, Catullus, thank you greatly; I, Catullus, the worst poet of all (pessimus omnium poeta): the worst poet of all as much as you are the best orator of all.”, and I think he would totally wear his own quote (possibly when Cicero is around to see). -- source link
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