I went to a friend's birthday party tonight and the only thing I remembered and liked about the movie he showed was the Latin quote above. It is a line from the movie The Rock (1996) with Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery. A long movie. And when you are only half-paying attention as I was, the movie only seems much longer because you weren't as invested in it as you could have been.
It is a line from Virgil's Aeneid and refers to the words uttered by Laocoön, a priest who warns the Trojans of Odysseus' devastatingly clever gift of the Trojan Horse. The gods punish him for his pronouncement by sending sea serpents to suffocate him and his sons. It's times like these that I miss Latin class. It's also times like these that I'm glad I have not angered the gods! (Knock on wood).
It is a line from Virgil's Aeneid and refers to the words uttered by Laocoön, a priest who warns the Trojans of Odysseus' devastatingly clever gift of the Trojan Horse. The gods punish him for his pronouncement by sending sea serpents to suffocate him and his sons. It's times like these that I miss Latin class. It's also times like these that I'm glad I have not angered the gods! (Knock on wood).
Pictured below: The Laocoön Group, on display at the Vatican Museum.
Ohh I have a picture of this too, but I didn't know what it meant. I just took a picture because you and Anna did..
ReplyDeleteit was a good movie, Giosy! shall we watch it again? ;)
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