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Оглавлениеἄμφω ὁμῶς θυμῷ φιλέουσά τε κηδομένη τε
For in her heart both of the pair
Did exercise her loving care.
T. E. LAWRENCE BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
“Nam castum esse decet pium poetam
Ipsum, versiculis nihil necesse est.”
Ταρσέυς · μὴ γήμας · εῖθὲ δὲ μήδ᾿ ὁ πάτηρ.
“Here lie I of Tarsus
Never having married, and I would that my father had not.”
“Alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram,
quae quondam in bustis aut culminibus desertis
nocte sedens serum canit importuna per umbras—
hanc versa in faciem Turni se pestis ob ora
fertque refertque sonans clipeumque everberat alis,
illi membra novus solvit formidine torpor....”
E’en thus the deadly child of night
Shot from the sky with earthward flight.
Soon as the armies and the town
Descending, she descries,
She dwarfs her huge proportion down
To bird of puny size,
Which perched on tombs or desert towers
Hoots long and lone through darkling hours
In such disguise the monster wheeled
Round Turnus’ head and ’gainst his shield
Unceasing flapped her wings
Strange chilly dread his limbs unstrung
Upstands his hair: his voiceless tongue
To his parched palate clings.
“non fuit excepto Laurentis corpore Turni.”
But when the chosen People grew more strong,
The rightful cause at length became the wrong;
And every loss the men of Jebus bore,
They still were thought God’s enemies the more.
Thus, worn and weaken’d, well or ill content,
Submit they must to David’s Government.
God’s pampered people whom, debauch’d with ease,
No king could govern and no God could please.
