DEMENTED

“A LOVER SHOULD BE REGARDED AS A PERSON DEMENTED”

~ Roman proverb ~

“demented” is from the Latin word:  demens ‘out of one’s mind‘.

The ancient Roman mosaic shows a Satyr and Nymph, borrowed from Greek Mythology of Pan. The mosaic tile image was excavated from the ruins of The House of the Faun (Italian: Casa del Fauno), which built during the 2nd century BC. The villa was covered in the ash of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.  The mountain is still a very volatile volcano.  Sexual love, like a volcano, could be said to be as potentially devastating as a volcanic eruption.