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Lunchtime Photo

This is a picture of turtles and.......fish? ready to spout at the Latona Fountain in the gardens of Versailles.

No, wait: turtles and lizards, to celebrate the myth of Latona, who got pissed off at the Lycians and had them turned into frogs and lizards. Frogs? So why does the fountain have turtles and lizards? Where are the frogs?

The Versailles site explains it. The frogs are on an upper level of the fountain along with a few poor Lycian peasants. But still, what's the deal with the turtles?

May 25, 2022 — Versailles, France

6 thoughts on “Lunchtime Photo

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  1. kaleberg

    Was the word literally only-lizards or was it a word with a broader meaning which would include other reptiles? People speaking different languages often classify things differently. Look at Japan with its red-yellow-blue traffic lights. There is a word for what we would call "green" in Japanese, but it's borrowed from the German.

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