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Historical poem record

B U B A L V S .

Bubalus hinc abeat , neve intret prædia noſtra .

EnglishLet the buffalo depart from here, and let him not enter our estates. Let no one eat him: let him always go under the yoke.

Language
Latin
Date
17th century
Meter
elegiac_couplet
Editorial status
Source-attested
Text
Source and English

Unit 1 · poem · elegiac_couplet · 2 lines

Latin

Source text

  1. 1

    Bubalus hinc abeat , neve intret prædia noſtra .

  2. 2

    Non edat hunc quiſquam : ſub juga ſemper eat .

English text

Alignment approximate; line numbers are not a verified source-to-translation map.

Let the buffalo depart from here, and let him not enter our estates.

Let no one eat him: let him always go under the yoke.