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P A S S E R.

ARdet & eſt Paſſer molli duriſſimus alvo.

EnglishThe sparrow is hot, and very hard for a soft stomach. If you wish to be lustful, this one will provide its brains.

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

Unit 1 · poem · elegiac_couplet · 4 lines

Latin

Source text

  1. 1

    ARdet & eſt Paſſer molli duriſſimus alvo.

  2. 2

    Si vis eſſe ſalax hic cerebella dabit.

  3. 3

    Cur neget ? huic ſubitam ſunt adducentia mortem

  4. 4

    I Venus hinc, ſolas ni modò perdis Aves.

English text

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

The sparrow is hot, and very hard for a soft stomach.

If you wish to be lustful, this one will provide its brains.

Why would it deny them? They bring sudden death upon it.

Go hence, Venus, unless you destroy only birds.