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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter C

Clementia

Mythology
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Personification of mercy and leniency, especially in imperial governance.

Detailed Definition
Clementia was promoted by Augustus and later emperors as a virtue of just rule. In poetry, she appears in panegyric or philosophical verse (e.g., Seneca’s treatise) as an ideal counter to tyranny, symbolizing the moral authority of the ruler and the hope for humane justice in a hierarchical society.
Example
Example in poetry:
Clementia, personified mercy, appears in imperial and ethical verse: "Caesar embodies Clementia—sword sheathed, hand outstretched"; Seneca’s De Clementia inspires poetic praise: "Clementia, rarest of virtues, turns conqueror to healer"; A plea in elegy: "O Clementia, soften the judge’s heart"; In contrast to wrath: "Where Mars rages, Clementia whispers peace."
Additional Notes
Clementia was elevated to divine status during the late Republic and early Empire as a key imperial virtue—Augustus and later emperors promoted it to contrast with the brutality of civil war; Seneca’s treatise De Clementia frames it as the highest virtue of a ruler; unlike Greek eleos (pity), Roman clementia implied conscious restraint of power; poets invoke her in panegyric to praise a merciful emperor or in satire to lament its absence; she often appears alongside Iustitia and Aequitas as part of a triad of ideal governance.
Also Known As
mercy goddess clemency personified forgiveness virtue
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