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Historical poem record

De carne ſuilla.

Sus calidam & udam, multum uentriq; rebellem,

EnglishThe pig [yields meat that is] hot and moist, and very rebellious to the belly, Unless it is young, which is usually good.

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

    Sus calidam & udam, multum uentriq; rebellem,

  2. 2

    Ni iuuenis fuerit, quæ ſolet eſſe bona.

English text

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

The pig [yields meat that is] hot and moist, and very rebellious to the belly,

Unless it is young, which is usually good.