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Epilogue (1453–1456)
Haec quicunque legis, stridenti ignosce cicadae | The correct interpretation of this and the following two lines is not entirely obvious. Beck takes aevum as aetatem iuvenilem, but what is the point of exhorting the reader here to remember the days of youth? Better to take aevum as aeternitatem (cf. prologue, lines 5, 8); thus a young reader is encouraged to remember (like Waltharius) the importance of Christian salvation as he goes out into the world on his own.
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Eclogue 2.12-13.: me cum raucis. . .resonant arbusta cicadis. ‘The copses echo my voice with that of the shrill cicadas.’
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Raucellam nec adhuc vocem perpende, sed aevum, | Eclogue 2.12-13.: me cum raucis. . .resonant arbusta cicadis. ‘The copses echo my voice with that of the shrill cicadas.’
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Utpote quae nidis nondum petit alta relictis. | 1455 | Georgics 2.210: illae altum nidis petiere relictis. ‘These leave their nests and seek the sky.’ | DSSDDS | |||
Haec est Waltharii poesis. vos salvet Iesus. | IHS: an abbreviation for the name Jesus, based on its first three letters in Greek. | ???????? |