a door knocker with an ouroboros around a lion's head

A door knocker with an ouroboros (serpent eating its own tail) surrounding a lion's head. From the door of a baroque house, the Casa Marina in the town of Calmocha, Aragon, Spain.

Navigatio Brendani 21.4:

(bestiae marinae) tālēs vidēbantur sīcut iūnctās in gīrum, applicantēs capita ad posteriōra iacendō.

The creatures seemed to be curled up into a circle (in gīrum). CL would be (e.g.) vidēbantur tālēs ut (aliquās) iūnctās in gīrum, or would omit tālēs entirely.

 

Associated Passages
21.1–9
Type
Image
License
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
Location
Calmocha, Spain
Image Credit
Zarateman