Les Effects de Lune
Nov. 1st, 2007 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
porphyryThis text is not entirely without interste for the refernce to Catullus' Mille Basia:
But to see the more amusing obverse side of this and its companion cards, see here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Anebo10/LesEffectsDeLune
(the idea that dew cast down by the moon makes things on earth swell up can be found in Pliny and Plutarch--it is the heliacal rising of the star Sirius, according to Hesiod, however that makes men weaker and more worn out, while women become more voloptuous, so this must be an August moon).
But to see the more amusing obverse side of this and its companion cards, see here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Anebo10/LesEffectsDeLune
(the idea that dew cast down by the moon makes things on earth swell up can be found in Pliny and Plutarch--it is the heliacal rising of the star Sirius, according to Hesiod, however that makes men weaker and more worn out, while women become more voloptuous, so this must be an August moon).
