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Historical poem record

AD FONTEM ACIN.

VAlle ſub umbroſa teneras qui perfluis herbas

EnglishYou who flow through the tender grasses in the shady valley, Where the grove, O Acis, draws its name from the holm oaks:

Language
Latin
Date
16th century
Form
elegiac_couplet
Editorial status
Reviewed source page
Text
Source and English

Unit 1 · poem · elegiac_couplet · 18 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

    VAlle ſub umbroſa teneras qui perfluis herbas

  2. 2

    Nomen ab ilicibus qua trahit Aci nemus:

  3. 3

    Tu mihi grata quies, & dulce leuamen in æſtu,

  4. 4

    Ceſpite feſſa leuas membra, liquore ſitim.

  5. 5

    Murmur & inuitat blandos in margine ſomnos,

  6. 6

    Lenis & e gelidis uallibus aura uenit.

  7. 7

    Nec pecudes riuum, nec turbat limus, & imum

  8. 8

    Splendidior uitro lucet ad uſque ſolum.

English · verified range

Verified range

  1. 1

    Woe is me, that as a young man, having left my nourishing homeland,

  2. 2

    I am deprived of these woods, and forever of these waters.

  3. 3

    Where I often remember that I once, in the cool shade,

  4. 4

    as a boy consulted the Aonian Goddesses.

  5. 5

    But it is sweet to remember exhausted labor, and

  6. 6

    rest will be more pleasing after first wandering the world.

  7. 7

    And now farewell again, mindful of me, grass-bearing Aci;

  8. 8

    this I wish for you as I depart: may you flow forever.

Source lines 9-18

  1. 9

    Flumineos latices hic libat, & abdita ramis

  2. 10

    Multa nemus querulis cantibus implet auis.

  3. 11

    H ei mihi quod iuuenis tellure altrice relicta

  4. 12

    His careo ſyluis, his ego ſemper aquis.

  5. 13

    Q ua gelida quondam me ſæpe recordor in umbra

  6. 14

    Aonias puerum conſuluiſſe Deas.

  7. 15

    D ulce ſed exhauſti meminiſſe laboris, eritq;

  8. 16

    Ante pererrato gratior orbe quies.

  9. 17

    I amq; uale rurſus, noſtri memor, herbifer Aci,

  10. 18

    Hoc tibi diſcedens opto, perennis eas.

English

No translation for source lines 9-18.