Monday, Oct 27, 2008

Desert Island Latin Lyrics 6

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Dies irae, dies illa

A poem from the 13th century about the Last Judgement.

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Monday, Oct 27, 2008

Desert Island Latin Lyrics 5

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Levis exsurgit Zephyrus.

This comes from a manuscript of St Augustine of Canterbury.

Before it, I read a poem by Rupert Brook called simply 'Song.'

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Monday, Oct 27, 2008

Desert Island Latin Lyrics 4

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Solus ad victimam procedis, Domine

Peter Abelard's hymn for Good Friday, written for his beloved Heloise and her nuns.

The translation, which I read first, is by Helen Waddell in 'Mediaeval Latin Lyrics.'

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Monday, Oct 27, 2008

Desert Island Latin Lyrics 3

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Peter Abelard's great hymn for Saturday Vespers, one of the collection of 93 hymns which he wrote for Eloise, once his wife, now Abbess of the Paraclete Convent.

A translation appears in English hymnbooks as Oh what their joy and their glory must be.

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Monday, Oct 27, 2008

Desert Island Latin Lyrics 2

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This Spring song, from the manuscript of Benedictbeuern, begins:

Salve, ver optatum,
amantibus gratum,
gaudiorum
fax, multorum
florum incrementum!
Multitudo florum
et color colorum,
salvetote
et estote
iocorum augmentum!
Dulcis avium concentus
sonat: gaudeat iuventus!
Hiems seva transiit,
nam lenis spirat ventus.

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Monday, Oct 27, 2008

Desert Island Latin Lyrics 1

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Animula, vagula, blandula
Hospes comesque corporis!
Quae nunc abibis in loca,
Pallidula, frigida nudula
Nec ut soles dabis ioca?

- by the Emperor Hadrian, to his soul.

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Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008

Pro Roscio chapter 20

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Now Cicero begins to tread on dangerous ground. He is going to accuse Sulla's henchman Chrysogonus of profiting from the murder. The news reaches Chrysogonus in Sulla's camp at Volaterrae. Chrysogonus in his greed for a share in Sextus Roscius' estate promises his help in eliminating the son.

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Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008

Pro Roscio chapter 19

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Cicero paints a vivid word-picture of news of the murder reaching Ameria. It was a freedman of Titus Roscius who brought the news, and he had travelled 40 miles in ten hours, at night, in a cisium, to show the murder weapon still dripping blood!

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Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008

Pro Roscio chapter 18

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Cicero sets out his defence: he will prove that Titus Roscius was guilty of the murder, and if he fails to prove this, let the jury convict his client. While Sextus was acting the good son back on the farm, Titus was in Rome.

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Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008

Pro Roscio chapter 17

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The two villains, Titus Roscius Capito and Titus Roscius Magnus, are introduced as enemies of the defendant's father. Cicero makes his first hint that they were guilty of the elder Sextus Roscius' murder.

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