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DIAZINZIBEREOS.

Arterias male concurvas, rauceque sonantes,

English395 The windpipes badly curved, and sounding hoarsely, To which a viscous and excessively tenacious humor adheres,

Language
Latin
Date
19th century
Form
hexameter
Editorial status
Reviewed source page
Text
Source and English

Unit 1 · poem · hexameter · 15 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 1-15

  1. 1

    Arterias male concurvas, rauceque sonantes,

  2. 2

    Viscosus nimiumque tenax quibus humor adhaeret,

  3. 3

    Planat et elimat Diazinziber atque resolvit;

  4. 4

    Spurcitiae veteris concretas frigore sordes

  5. 5

    Mundat et extergit: vitium spirabilis aurae

  6. 6

    Lenit: et humectat aditus humore latenti. —

  7. 7

    Cum premitur gelidis pulmonis fistula chymis

  8. 8

    Eruit asthmatico querulo de pectore cantus,

  9. 9

    Et tussim de viscosis humoribus ortam.

  10. 10

    Sed ptisanae succos aegro sorbere iuvabit,

  11. 11

    Admixtis sibi penidiis, gummi, dragaganto

  12. 12

    Atque liquiriciae succo, caricis et hysopo.

  13. 13

    Ex crudo quibus est stomachi sitis orta vapore,

  14. 14

    Gutturis ardorem quibus indigestio praestat,

  15. 15

    Inflammatque volas manuum, Diazinziber illos

English

No translation for source lines 1-15.

Unit 2 · poem · hexameter · 10 lines

Latin

Source lines 1-10

  1. 1

    Curat, cum vino susceptum feniculato

  2. 2

    Vel quo bullierit anisum, mastix et anethum.

  3. 3

    Excitat officium coitus, et iura caloris

  4. 4

    Perdita restaurat, pexim in crudore iacentem

  5. 5

    Sublevat, et faciem pulso pallore venustat. —

  6. 6

    Cum ptisano sumtum, cuius toties memorata

  7. 7

    Saepius expressit propriam descriptio formam,

  8. 8

    Jam facta sanie, rupta compage tumoris

  9. 9

    Pessima pleuretici prohibet contagia morbi. —

  10. 10

    Vix transire potest primum Diazinziber annum.

English · verified range

Verified range

  1. 1

    410 It cures, taken with fennel-flavored wine

  2. 2

    Or one in which anise, mastic, and dill have boiled.

  3. 3

    It stimulates the function of coitus, and restores the lost

  4. 4

    Rights of heat, raises up digestion lying in rawness,

  5. 5

    And beautifies the face with pallor driven away. —

  6. 6

    415 Taken with ptisana, the proper form of which

  7. 7

    The oft-remembered description has very often expressed,

  8. 8

    When pus has already formed, with the framework of the tumor broken,

  9. 9

    It prohibits the worst contagions of pleuritic disease. —

  10. 10

    *Diazinziber* can scarcely pass beyond its first year.