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Locus amoenus (Latin for "pleasant place") is a literary topos involving an idealized place of safety or comfort. A locus amoenus is usually a beautiful, shady lawn or open woodland, or a group of idyllic islands, sometimes with connotations of Eden or Elysium .
The locus amoenus: the strophes that come after strophe 52 of Canto IX, and some of the main parts that appear from strophe 68 to 95 describe the scenery where the love encountered between the sailors and the Nymphs take place. The poet also talks about the fauna that live there and of fruits produced instantly.
the locus amoenus (for example, the imaginary world of Arcadia) and the locus horridus (for example, Dante's Inferno); the idyll; cemetery poetry (see the Spoon River Anthology); love and death (in Greek, eros and thanatos), love as disease and love as death, (see the character of Dido in Virgil's Aeneid);
Scholars have compared Alcinous' garden and the island of Calypso; both are a locus amoenus with fresh springs and fruit trees. [2] Some differences are noted; Calypso's garden is lush and endowed with a supernatural aesthetic beauty, while Alcinous' garden is simple and productive.
Spartam nactus es; hanc exorna: your lot is cast in Sparta, be a credit to it: from Euripides's Telephus, Agamemnon to Menelaus. [12] specialia generalibus derogant: special departs from general: species nova: new species: Used in biological taxonomy: spectemur agendo: let us be judged by our acts: Motto of Hawthorn Football Club: Speculum ...
Locus iste is the Latin gradual for the anniversary of the dedication of a church (Missa in anniversario dedicationis ecclesiae), which in German is called Kirchweih. [1] The incipit Locus iste a Deo factus est translates to "This place was made by God". [2] One of the most famous settings is by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner.
Locus iste (English: This place), WAB 23, is a sacred motet composed by Anton Bruckner in 1869. The text is the Latin gradual Locus iste for the annual celebration of a church's dedication. The incipit , Locus iste a Deo factus est , translates to "This place was made by God". [ 1 ]
Loci communes or Loci communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae (Latin for Common Places in Theology or Fundamental Doctrinal Themes) was a work by the Lutheran theologian Philipp Melanchthon published in 1521 [1] (other, modified editions were produced during the life of the author in 1535, 1543 and 1559).