Caption: The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius. Erected in 175 CE, it is now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome which surrounds the Piazza del Campidoglio (designed by Michelangelo (1475--1564)) where a copy of the statue stands.

Marcus Aurelius (121--180 CE, Roman Emperor 161--180 CE) was the last of the Five Good Emperors and a Stoic philosopher:

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

---Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, VI. 29, p. 97, translation by John Hamilton Maxwell Staniforth, Max Himself (1893jun23--1985dec26), also author of At War with the 16th Irish Division 1914-1918: The Letters of J H M Staniforth (2012).

And his horse:

Get that carnsarn bird off my head.
---Pegasus, Sleipnir, Shadowfax, Bucephalus (fl. 330 BCE), Veillantif (c.778 in legend), Copenhagen (1808--1836), Traveller (1857--1871), Cincinnati (c.1860--1878), etc.

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