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Historical poem record

De bubula & caprina.

Bos reddit duram, cunctis quos cocta polenta

EnglishThe ox yields hard [meat], profitable for all those whom cooked barley-meal Nourishes, but the he-goat yields useless [meat].

Language
Latin
Date
16th century
Meter
elegiac_couplet
Editorial status
Source-attested
Text
Source and English

Unit 1 · poem · elegiac_couplet · 2 lines

Latin

Source text

  1. 1

    Bos reddit duram, cunctis quos cocta polenta

  2. 2

    Nutrit proficuam, ſed caper inutilem.

English text

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

The ox yields hard [meat], profitable for all those whom cooked barley-meal

Nourishes, but the he-goat yields useless [meat].