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Tertia pars orbis, fratres, Europa vocatur,<ref>Lucan, De Bello Civili 9.411-412.: Tertia pars rerum Libye, si credere famae/ Cuncta velis; at, si ventos caelumque sequaris,/ Pars erit Europae.
‘Libya is the third continent of the world, if one is willing in all things to trust report; but, if you judge by the winds and the sky, you will find it to be part of Europe.’</ref> |
DSSSDS | A third part of the world is called Europe, brothers: | |
Moribus ac linguis varias et nomine gentes | By customs, tongues and name dividing various peoples, | ||
Distinguens cultu, tum relligione sequestrans. | Then separating them by their religious practice. | ||
Inter quas gens Pannoniae residere probatur, | Among them lived the people of Pannonia, | ||
Quam tamen et Hunos plerumque vocare solemus. | 5 | Whom we are generally accustomed to call Huns. | |
Hic populus fortis virtute vigebat et armis, | This brave folk flourished both by courage and by arms; | ||
Non circumpositas solum domitans regiones, | Subduing not just those lands which surrounded theirs, | ||
Litoris oceani sed pertransiverat oras, | They had extended even to the seashore’s limits; | ||
Foedera supplicibus donans sternensque rebelles. | They granted pacts to suppliants, but crushed resisters. | ||
Ultra millenos fertur dominarier annos. | 10 | They held sway, it is said, more than a thousand years. |
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