Leo Bensemann
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1912, d.1986
Leo Bensemann Ex Libris
- c. 1935
- Ink on paper
- Gift of Anna Leonie, 2025
- 196 x 132mm
- 2025/182
The inscription is taken from Horace. The complete line is
Atqui non ego te tigris ut aspera Gaetulusve leo frangere persequor
which can be translated as
And yet I’m not pursuing you to hurt you like a fierce tiger, or a Gaetulian lion
(Horace, Odes, Book 1, number 23)