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A S P A R A G U S.

QUòd, Liber, Aſparagos habeas vix igne tepentes,

EnglishThat you, Liber, have asparagus scarcely warm from the fire, Which Ravenna, girt by Adriatic shoals, has brought forth:

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

Unit 1 · poem · elegiac_couplet · 12 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 1-2

  1. 1

    QUòd, Liber, Aſparagos habeas vix igne tepentes,

  2. 2

    Quos tulit Adriacis cincta Ravenna vadis:

English

No translation for source lines 1-2.

Source lines 3-10

  1. 3

    Quòd etiam incultis, durâq; à cote revulſis,

  2. 4

    Qui magis exurant, plena culina tua eſt ;

  3. 5

    Hoc tibi ab excelſo eſt non parvum munus Ubaldo,

  4. 6

    Cui datur immotæ gloria prima Rotæ.

  5. 7

    Quàm bene conſuluit nobis ? tibi nomen ab illo

  6. 8

    Æternum : addicta eſt vita ſaluſq; mihi.

  7. 9

    Renibus hinc valeo, jecore, intumidoq; liene:

  8. 10

    Ilia, nec mundum tergus, ut ante, dolet.

English · verified range

Verified range

  1. 1

    This is no small gift to you from the lofty Ubaldo,

  2. 2

    To whom is given the first glory of the unmoving Rota.

  3. 3

    How well has he provided for us? To you is an eternal name from him:

  4. 4

    life and health have been granted to me.

  5. 5

    Hence I am healthy in my kidneys, liver, and unswollen spleen:

  6. 6

    my flanks and my clean back do not ache, as before.

  7. 7

    If I am tormented by Venus from this, this gift is more than abundant for me:

  8. 8

    He gave what he could with religion intact.

Source lines 11-12

  1. 11

    Si venere hinc crucior, ſupra hoc mihi munus abundè eſt:

  2. 12

    Quod potuit ſalvâ relligione dedit.

English

No translation for source lines 11-12.