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A D L I B R V M.

IBis inepte Liber : ronchos & inania vulgi

EnglishYou will go forth, foolish Book: learn to endure the sneers and empty annoyances of the mob: the fault is yours, not mine.

Language
Latin
Date
17th century
Form
elegiac_couplet
Editorial status
Reviewed source page
Text
Source and English

Unit 1 · poem · elegiac_couplet · 10 lines

Latin

Block alignment is approximate: translation blocks are shown against their source line ranges, with untranslated gaps and overlaps surfaced rather than shifted into a verified line map.

Source lines 1-8

  1. 1

    IBis inepte Liber : ronchos & inania vulgi

  2. 2

    Tædia diſce pati : non mea, culpa tua eſt.

  3. 3

    Et Medici & Vates intra ſua pulpita nugas

  4. 4

    Mille tuas tacitâ non ſine laude legent.

  5. 5

    Poſt tamen in triviis damnabere : fabula fies

  6. 6

    Publica ; ſed moneo, tu modò diſce pati.

  7. 7

    Hic tua ridebit medicamina, ut ille poëſim :

  8. 8

    Alter erit Vates, cui nec eris Medicus.

English

No translation for source lines 1-8.

Source lines 9-10

  1. 9

    Vade tamen : mitis domini templa ampla ſubito.

  2. 10

    Huic, ſatis & ſuper eſt, ſi ſatis eſſe potes.

English · verified range

Verified range

  1. 1

    You will go forth, foolish Book: learn to endure the sneers

  2. 2

    and empty annoyances of the mob: the fault is yours, not mine.

  3. 3

    Both Physicians and Poets within their pulpits will read

  4. 4

    your thousand trifles not without silent praise.

  5. 5

    Yet afterward you will be condemned at the crossroads: you will become

  6. 6

    a public fable; but I warn you, just learn to endure.

  7. 7

    This one will laugh at your medicines, as that one your poetry:

  8. 8

    Another will be a Poet, for whom you will not be a Physician.

  9. 9

    Go nevertheless: approach the spacious temples of a gentle master.

  10. 10

    For him, it is enough and more than enough, if you can be enough.