The birds die of jealousy and the owl does not care.
Inscription above a scene tiled into the floor of a bath complex in Thysdrus, A.D. 300
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Random quote and unrelated photo of the week, classical edition
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think maybe that quote is referring to the battle of the sexes?
ReplyDeleteFunny, I hadn't thought of it that way. It was part of a tile mosaic that litterally did show an owl and a bunch of dead and dying songbirds.
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