Velut aegri somnia
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| - | '''Velut aegri somnia, vanae fingentur species, ut nec pes nec caput uni reddatur formae''' is a famous phrase from [[Horace]]'s [[Ars Poetica]]: It translates as "like the dreams of a sick person, senseless images are fashioned in such a way that neither head nor foot can be associated in a single shape." | + | '''Velut aegri somnia, vanae fingentur species, ut nec pes nec caput uni reddatur formae''' is a famous phrase from [[Horace's Ars Poetica]]: It translates as "like the dreams of a sick person, senseless images are fashioned in such a way that neither head nor foot can be associated in a single shape." (tr. unidentified) |
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| - | *"As a sick man's dreams, creating vain phantasms." | ||
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| - | Also cited in [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Essays_of_Montaigne/Book_I/Chapter_VIII] | ||
| + | The phrase is also cited in [[Montaigne]]'s ''[[Essays]]'', in the chapter "Of idleness"[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Essays_of_Montaigne/Book_I/Chapter_VIII] where it is translated by [[William Carew Hazlitt]] as "As a sick man's dreams, creating vain phantasms." | ||
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Artistic license]] | ||
| + | *[[Ars Poetica (Horace)]] | ||
| + | *[[Vitruvius on the grotesque]] | ||
| + | *[[What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick]], dictum by Goethe | ||
| + | ==External links== | ||
| + | *http://im-akermariano.blogspot.be/2009/03/painters-and-poets.html | ||
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Velut aegri somnia, vanae fingentur species, ut nec pes nec caput uni reddatur formae is a famous phrase from Horace's Ars Poetica: It translates as "like the dreams of a sick person, senseless images are fashioned in such a way that neither head nor foot can be associated in a single shape." (tr. unidentified)
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The phrase is also cited in Montaigne's Essays, in the chapter "Of idleness"[1] where it is translated by William Carew Hazlitt as "As a sick man's dreams, creating vain phantasms."
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See also
- Artistic license
- Ars Poetica (Horace)
- Vitruvius on the grotesque
- What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick, dictum by Goethe
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