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+ | |[[Iam]] [[princeps]] [[nimia]] [[succenditur]] [[efferus]] [[ira]], | ||
+ | |380 | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|Prudentius, ''Psychomachia'' 150: ''succenditur effera. '' ‘Wild passion fires her.’ ''Liber Hester'' 1.12: ''unde iratus rex et nimio furore succensus . . .''’Whereupon the king, being angry, and inflamed with a very great fury. . .’ | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SDSDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Mutant]] [[laetitiam]] [[maerentia]] [[corda1|corda]] [[priorem]]. | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SDSDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Ex]] [[humeris]] [[trabeam]] [[discindit]] [[ad]] [[infima]] [[totam]] | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Secundum Mattheum'' 26.65: ''princeps sacerdotum scidit vestimenta sua.'' ‘The high priest rent his garments.’ ''Aeneid'' 5.685:'' tum pius Aeneas humeris abscindere vestem. '' ‘Then loyal Aeneas rent the garment from his shoulders.’ 11.334: ''sellam regni trabeamque insignia nostri. . .'' ‘A throne and robe, signs of our royalty. . .’ | ||
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+ | |[[Et]] [[nunc]] [[huc]] [[animum]] [[tristem]], [[nunc]] [[dividit]] [[illuc]]. | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 4.285, 8.20: ''utque animum nunc huc celerem, nunc dividit illuc. . .'' ‘And as he casts his swift mind this way and that. . .’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SDSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Ac]] [[velut]] [[Aeolicis]] [[turbatur]] [[arena]] [[procellis]], | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 5.790-791.: ''maria omnia caelo/ miscuit, Aeoliis nequiquam freta procellis.'' ‘All the seas she mingled with the sky, in vain relying on the storms of Aeolus.’ | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DDSDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Sic]] [[intestinis]] [[rex]] [[fluctuat]] [[undique]] [[curis]], | ||
+ | |385 | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 8.19: ''magno curarum fluctuat aestu. '' ‘He tosses on a mighty sea of troubles.’ 4.532: ''magnoque irarum fluctuat aestu.'' ‘She heaves with a mighty tide of passion.’ 4.564: ''variosque irarum concitat aestus.'' ‘She awakens the swirling surge of passion.’ | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SSSDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Et]] [[varium]] [[pectus]] [[vario]] [[simul]] [[ore1|ore]] [[imitatus]], | ||
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+ | |{{Commentary|''Pectus'': i.e., emotional state | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSDDDS|elision=ore imitatus}} | ||
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+ | |[[Prodidit]] [[exterius]], [[quicquid1|quicquid]] [[toleraverat]] [[intus]], | ||
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+ | |[[Iraque]] [[sermonem]] [[permisit]] [[promere]] [[nullum]]. | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Ipso]] [[quippe]] [[die]] [[potum]] [[fastidit1|fastidit]] [[et]] [[escam]], | ||
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+ | |[[Nec]] [[placidam]] [[membris]] [[potuit]] [[dare]] [[cura1|cura]] [[quietem]]. | ||
+ | |390 | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 4.5:'' nec placidam membris dat cura quietem.'' ‘Longing witholds calm rest from her limbs.’ 1.691-692.: ''placidam per membra quietem/ inrigat. '' ‘She pours gentle repose over the limbs.’ 8.30: ''seramque dedit per membra quietem. '' ‘He let sleep at last steal over his limbs.’ 10.217: ''neque enim membris dat cura quietem.'' ‘Care allows no rest to his limbs.’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSDDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Namque]] [[ubi]] [[nox]] [[rebus]] [[iam]] [[dempserat]] [[atra]] [[colores]], | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 6.272: ''rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.'' ‘Black night has stolen from the world her hues.’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSSDDS|elision=namque ubi}} | ||
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+ | |[[Decidit]] [[in]] [[lectum]], verum [[nec]] lum[[in]]a [[clausit]], | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Liber I Macchabeorum ''1.6, 6.8: '' decidit in lectum. '' ‘He fell down upon his bed.’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Nunc]] [[latus]] [[in]] [[dextrum1|dextrum]] [[fultus]] [[nunc]] [[in]]que s[[in]]istrum, | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Eclogue'' 6.53: ''ille latus niveum molli fultus hyacintho. . .'' ‘He, pillowing his snowy side on soft hyacinths. . .’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Et]] [[veluti]] [[iaculo]] [[pectus]] [[transfixus]] [[acuto]] | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 11.574: ''iaculo palmas armavit acuto.'' ‘He armed her hands with a pointed lance.’ | ||
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+ | |[[Palpitat]] [[atque]] [[caput]] [[huc]] [[et]] [[mox]] [[iactitat]] [[illuc]], | ||
+ | |395 | ||
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+ | |[[Et]] [[modo]] [[subrectus]] [[fulcro]] [[consederat]] [[amens]]. | ||
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+ | |[[Nec]] [[iuvat]] [[hoc6|hoc]], [[demum]] [[surgens]] discurrit [[in]] [[urbe]], | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 4.68-69.: ''uritur infelix Dido totaque vagatur/ urbe furens. '' ‘Unhappy Dido burns, and through the city wanders in frenzy.’ 7.377: ''sine more furit lymphata per urbem.'' ‘In wild frenzy she rages from end to end of the city.’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Atque]] [[thorum]] [[veniens1|veniens]] [[simul]] [[attigit]] [[atque]] [[reliquit1|reliquit]]. | ||
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+ | |{{Commentary|''Thorum equiv. to torum'' | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DDDDDS|falsequantities=atque thorum?}} | ||
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+ | |[[Taliter]] [[insomnem]] [[consumpserat]] [[Attila]] [[noctem]]. | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 9.166-167.: ''noctem custodia ducit/ insomnem.'' ‘The guards spend the sleepless night.’ ''Liber Hester'' 6.1: ''noctem illam rex duxit insomnem.'' ‘That night the king passed without sleep.’ ''Aeineid'' 2.795: ''consumpta nocte. . .'' ‘When night is spent. . .’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSSDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[At]] [[profugi]] [[comites]] [[per]] [[amica]] [[silentia]] [[euntes]] | ||
+ | |400 | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 2.255: ''tacitae per amica silentia lunae. . .'' ‘Amid the friendly silence of the mute moon. . .’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DDDDDS|elision=silentia euntes}} | ||
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+ | |[[Suspectam]] [[properant]] [[post1|post]] [[terga]] [[relinquere]] [[terram]]. | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 3.550: ''suspectaque linquimus arva.'' ‘We leave the fields we distrust.’ Ovid, ''Metamorphoses ''2.187: ''multum caeli post terga relictum. '' ‘Much of the sky is now behind him.’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SDSDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Vix]] [[tamen]] [[erupit]] [[cras]], [[rex]] [[patribusque]] [[vocatis]] | ||
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+ | |{{Commentary|''Vix…erupit cras'' equiv. to ''postridie, prima luce'' | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |{{Parallel|''Isaias Propheta ''58.8: ''erumpet quasi mane lumen tuum.'' ‘Then shall thy light break forth as the morning.’ ''Aeineid'' 11.379: ''patribusque vocati. . .'' ‘When the senate is summoned. . .’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSSDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Dixerat]]: '[[o]] [[si]] [[quis2|quis]] [[mihi]] [[Waltharium]] [[fugientem]] | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|Statius, ''Thebaid ''8.739-740.: ''o caput, o mihi si quis/ adportet, Melanippe, tuum! '' ‘Thy head, O Melanippus, could one but bring me that!’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSDDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Afferat]] [[evinctum]] [[ceu]] [[nequam]] [[forte]] [[liciscam]]! | ||
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+ | |{{Commentary|''Liciscam'': “wolf-dog,” the product of interbreeding. | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |{{Parallel|Statius, ''Thebaid ''8.739-740.: ''o caput, o mihi si quis/ adportet, Melanippe, tuum! '' ‘Thy head, O Melanippus, could one but bring me that!’ | ||
+ | <br />''Eclogue'' 3.18: ''multum latrante Lycisca. . .'' ‘While the mongrel barked madly. . .’ ''evinctus: Aeineid'' 5.269, 5.364, 5.494, 5.774. | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[hunc2|Hunc]] [[ego]] [[mox]] [[auro]] [[vestirem]] [[saepe]] [[recocto]] | ||
+ | |405 | ||
+ | |{{Commentary|''Auro'': Attila seems to allude to custom among Germanic tribes of allowing a murderer to escape justice if he covered his victim’s body in gold; here a living man will be covered in gold if he brings Waltharius back alive. Attila’s promise of a reward, repeated thrice in varied form, in fact has something sinister and even threatening about it.<br />''Recocto'': “refined” | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 8.624: ''levis ocreas electro auroque recocto. . .'' ‘The smooth greaves of electrum and refined gold. . .’ ''Liber Exodi'' 30.3: ''vesties illud auro purissimo. '' ‘And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold.’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Et]] [[tellure1|tellure]] [[quidem]] [[stantem]] [[hinc]] [[inde]] [[onerarem]] | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SDSSDS|elision=inde onerarem|hiatus=stantem hinc}} | ||
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+ | |[[Atque]] [[viam]] [[penitus]] [[clausissem]] [[vivo]] [[talentis]]. | ||
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+ | |{{Commentary|''Clausissem'' equiv. to ''clauderem'' | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DDSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[sed1|Sed]] [[nullus]] [[fuit]] [[in]] [[tanta]] [[regione1|regione]] [[tyrannus]] | ||
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+ | |{{Commentary|''Tyrannus'': apparently “prince” or a neighboring “king.” | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 10.714-715.: ''iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. '' ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’ | ||
+ | <br />''Liber Hester ''6.9: ''primus de regis principibus ac tyrannis''. . . ‘The first of the king’s princes and nobles. . .’ ''Aeineid'' 4.320: ''Nomadumque tyranni. . .'' ‘The Numidian chiefs. . .’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SDSDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Vel]] [[dux]] [[sive]] [[comes]] [[seu]] [[miles]] [[sive]] [[minister]], | ||
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+ | |{{Commentary|''Dux…comes…miles…minister'': continues the series of various positions at the royal court in descending order of rank. A “duke” among the Franks was an administrator who oversaw a number of smaller regions placed under “counts,” beneath whom came “free vassals” and finally “servants.” | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 10.714-715.: ''iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. '' ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’ | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SDSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[qui3|Qui]], [[quamvis]] [[cuperet]] [[proprias]] [[ostendere]] [[vires1|vires]] | ||
+ | |410 | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 10.714-715.: ''iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. '' ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SDDSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Ac]] [[virtute]] [[sua]] [[laudem]] [[captare]] [[perennem]] | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 10.714-715.: ''iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. '' ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’ | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SDSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Ambiretque]] [[simul]] [[gazam]] [[infarcire]] [[cruminis]], | ||
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+ | |{{Commentary|''Ambiret'' equiv. to ''studeret''<br />''Infarcire cruminis'': “to stuff his money-pouches” | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 10.714-715.: ''iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. '' ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’ | ||
+ | <br />Prudentius, ''Psychomachia'' 459-460.: ''iuvat infercire cruminis/ turpe lucrum.'' ‘She delights to stuff her base gain in money-bags.’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=SDDSDS|hiatus=NOT H-HIATUS: gazam infarcire}} | ||
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+ | |[[Waltharium]] [[tamen]] [[iratum]] praesumpserat [[armis]] | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 10.714-715.: ''iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. '' ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DDSSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Insequier]] [[strictoque]] [[virum]] [[mucrone]] [[videre]]. | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 10.714-715.: ''iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. '' ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’ | ||
+ | <br />''Aeineid'' 10.714: ''non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro. '' ‘None had heart to meet him with drawn sword.’ 2.449: ''strictis muconibus. . .'' ‘With drawn swords. . .’ 10.651-652.: ''strictumque coruscat/ mucronem. '' ‘He brandishes his naked blade.’ 12.663-664.: ''strictisque seges mucronibus horret/ ferrea. '' ‘A harvest of steel bristles with drawn swords.’ Statius, ''Thebaid'' 10.486:'' horrendi stricto mucrone furores. '' ‘Terrible is the fury of my drawn sword.’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSDSDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Nota]] [[equidem]] [[virtus]], [[experti sunt]] [[quoque]], [[quantas]] | ||
+ | |415 | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 9.526-527.: ''quas ibi tum ferro strages, quae funera Turnus/ ediderit.'' ‘. . .While I sing what slaughter, what deaths Turnus dealt on that day.’ 9.784-785.: ''tantas strages impune per urbem/ ediderit?'' ‘Shall he deal such carnage thoughout the city and go unpunished?’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DSSSDS|elision=nota equidem}} | ||
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+ | |[[colomis [[dederit1|Dederit]] [[strages]] [[sine]] [[vulnere]] [[victor]]. | ||
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+ | |{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 9.526-527.: ''quas ibi tum ferro strages, quae funera Turnus/ ediderit.'' ‘. . .While I sing what slaughter, what deaths Turnus dealt on that day.’ 9.784-785.: ''tantas strages impune per urbem/ ediderit?'' ‘Shall he deal such carnage thoughout the city and go unpunished?’ | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | |{{Meter|scansion=DDSDDS}} | ||
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+ | |[[Nec]] [[potis est]] [[ullum2|ullum]] [[rex]] [[persuadere]] [[virorum]], | ||
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+ | |[[qui3|Qui]] [[promissa]] [[velit]] [[hac1|hac]] [[condicione]] [[talenta]]. | ||
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Iam princeps nimia succenditur efferus ira, | 380 | Prudentius, Psychomachia 150: succenditur effera. ‘Wild passion fires her.’ Liber Hester 1.12: unde iratus rex et nimio furore succensus . . .’Whereupon the king, being angry, and inflamed with a very great fury. . .’
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Mutant laetitiam maerentia corda priorem. | SDSDDS | |||||
Ex humeris trabeam discindit ad infima totam | Secundum Mattheum 26.65: princeps sacerdotum scidit vestimenta sua. ‘The high priest rent his garments.’ Aeneid 5.685: tum pius Aeneas humeris abscindere vestem. ‘Then loyal Aeneas rent the garment from his shoulders.’ 11.334: sellam regni trabeamque insignia nostri. . . ‘A throne and robe, signs of our royalty. . .’
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Et nunc huc animum tristem, nunc dividit illuc. | Aeneid 4.285, 8.20: utque animum nunc huc celerem, nunc dividit illuc. . . ‘And as he casts his swift mind this way and that. . .’
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Ac velut Aeolicis turbatur arena procellis, | Aeineid 5.790-791.: maria omnia caelo/ miscuit, Aeoliis nequiquam freta procellis. ‘All the seas she mingled with the sky, in vain relying on the storms of Aeolus.’
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Sic intestinis rex fluctuat undique curis, | 385 | Aeineid 8.19: magno curarum fluctuat aestu. ‘He tosses on a mighty sea of troubles.’ 4.532: magnoque irarum fluctuat aestu. ‘She heaves with a mighty tide of passion.’ 4.564: variosque irarum concitat aestus. ‘She awakens the swirling surge of passion.’
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Et varium pectus vario simul ore imitatus, | Pectus: i.e., emotional state
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Prodidit exterius, quicquid toleraverat intus, | DDSDDS | |||||
Iraque sermonem permisit promere nullum. | DSSSDS | |||||
Ipso quippe die potum fastidit et escam, | SDSSDS | |||||
Nec placidam membris potuit dare cura quietem. | 390 | Aeineid 4.5: nec placidam membris dat cura quietem. ‘Longing witholds calm rest from her limbs.’ 1.691-692.: placidam per membra quietem/ inrigat. ‘She pours gentle repose over the limbs.’ 8.30: seramque dedit per membra quietem. ‘He let sleep at last steal over his limbs.’ 10.217: neque enim membris dat cura quietem. ‘Care allows no rest to his limbs.’
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Namque ubi nox rebus iam dempserat atra colores, | Aeineid 6.272: rebus nox abstulit atra colorem. ‘Black night has stolen from the world her hues.’
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Decidit in lectum, verum nec lumina clausit, | Liber I Macchabeorum 1.6, 6.8: decidit in lectum. ‘He fell down upon his bed.’
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Nunc latus in dextrum fultus nunc inque sinistrum, | Eclogue 6.53: ille latus niveum molli fultus hyacintho. . . ‘He, pillowing his snowy side on soft hyacinths. . .’
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Et veluti iaculo pectus transfixus acuto | Aeineid 11.574: iaculo palmas armavit acuto. ‘He armed her hands with a pointed lance.’
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Palpitat atque caput huc et mox iactitat illuc, | 395 | DDSSDS | ||||
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Nec iuvat hoc, demum surgens discurrit in urbe, | Aeineid 4.68-69.: uritur infelix Dido totaque vagatur/ urbe furens. ‘Unhappy Dido burns, and through the city wanders in frenzy.’ 7.377: sine more furit lymphata per urbem. ‘In wild frenzy she rages from end to end of the city.’
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Atque thorum veniens simul attigit atque reliquit. | Thorum equiv. to torum
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Taliter insomnem consumpserat Attila noctem. | Aeineid 9.166-167.: noctem custodia ducit/ insomnem. ‘The guards spend the sleepless night.’ Liber Hester 6.1: noctem illam rex duxit insomnem. ‘That night the king passed without sleep.’ Aeineid 2.795: consumpta nocte. . . ‘When night is spent. . .’
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At profugi comites per amica silentia euntes | 400 | Aeineid 2.255: tacitae per amica silentia lunae. . . ‘Amid the friendly silence of the mute moon. . .’
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Suspectam properant post terga relinquere terram. | Aeineid 3.550: suspectaque linquimus arva. ‘We leave the fields we distrust.’ Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.187: multum caeli post terga relictum. ‘Much of the sky is now behind him.’
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Vix tamen erupit cras, rex patribusque vocatis | Vix…erupit cras equiv. to postridie, prima luce
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Isaias Propheta 58.8: erumpet quasi mane lumen tuum. ‘Then shall thy light break forth as the morning.’ Aeineid 11.379: patribusque vocati. . . ‘When the senate is summoned. . .’
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Dixerat: 'o si quis mihi Waltharium fugientem | Statius, Thebaid 8.739-740.: o caput, o mihi si quis/ adportet, Melanippe, tuum! ‘Thy head, O Melanippus, could one but bring me that!’
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Afferat evinctum ceu nequam forte liciscam! | Liciscam: “wolf-dog,” the product of interbreeding.
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Statius, Thebaid 8.739-740.: o caput, o mihi si quis/ adportet, Melanippe, tuum! ‘Thy head, O Melanippus, could one but bring me that!’
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Hunc ego mox auro vestirem saepe recocto | 405 | Auro: Attila seems to allude to custom among Germanic tribes of allowing a murderer to escape justice if he covered his victim’s body in gold; here a living man will be covered in gold if he brings Waltharius back alive. Attila’s promise of a reward, repeated thrice in varied form, in fact has something sinister and even threatening about it. Recocto: “refined”
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Aeineid 8.624: levis ocreas electro auroque recocto. . . ‘The smooth greaves of electrum and refined gold. . .’ Liber Exodi 30.3: vesties illud auro purissimo. ‘And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold.’
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Et tellure quidem stantem hinc inde onerarem | SDSSDS Elision: inde onerarem Hiatus: stantem hinc |
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Atque viam penitus clausissem vivo talentis. | Clausissem equiv. to clauderem
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Sed nullus fuit in tanta regione tyrannus | Tyrannus: apparently “prince” or a neighboring “king.”
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Aeineid 10.714-715.: iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’
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Vel dux sive comes seu miles sive minister, | Dux…comes…miles…minister: continues the series of various positions at the royal court in descending order of rank. A “duke” among the Franks was an administrator who oversaw a number of smaller regions placed under “counts,” beneath whom came “free vassals” and finally “servants.”
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Aeineid 10.714-715.: iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’
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Qui, quamvis cuperet proprias ostendere vires | 410 | Aeineid 10.714-715.: iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’
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Ac virtute sua laudem captare perennem | Aeineid 10.714-715.: iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’
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Ambiretque simul gazam infarcire cruminis, | Ambiret equiv. to studeret Infarcire cruminis: “to stuff his money-pouches”
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Aeineid 10.714-715.: iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’
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Waltharium tamen iratum praesumpserat armis | Aeineid 10.714-715.: iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’
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Insequier strictoque virum mucrone videre. | Aeineid 10.714-715.: iustae quibus est Mezentius irae,/ non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro,/ missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt. ‘Of all those who had righteous hatred of Mezentius, none had heart to meet him with drawn sword; from a distance they provoke him with missiles and far-echoing shouts.’
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Nota equidem virtus, experti sunt quoque, quantas | 415 | Aeneid 9.526-527.: quas ibi tum ferro strages, quae funera Turnus/ ediderit. ‘. . .While I sing what slaughter, what deaths Turnus dealt on that day.’ 9.784-785.: tantas strages impune per urbem/ ediderit? ‘Shall he deal such carnage thoughout the city and go unpunished?’
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[[colomis Dederit strages sine vulnere victor. | Aeneid 9.526-527.: quas ibi tum ferro strages, quae funera Turnus/ ediderit. ‘. . .While I sing what slaughter, what deaths Turnus dealt on that day.’ 9.784-785.: tantas strages impune per urbem/ ediderit? ‘Shall he deal such carnage thoughout the city and go unpunished?’
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Nec potis est ullum rex persuadere virorum, | DSSSDS | |||||
Qui promissa velit hac condicione talenta. | SDSDDS |
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