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Latin 5r

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Te galea[1] prensum teneo / qui terga revolvis.
In terram post te currendo pectore mittam.[2]

Ut modo tellurem calcato corpore tundas
Est opus . hoc faciunt contraria gesta . malignus
Tu tamen illud idem mihimet tentare cupisti.

English 5r


I maintain this capture by your helmet, since you are turning your back,
I would send [your] chest on the ground while galloping behind you.


If you were to beat the ground with a trampled corpse in this way,
The countering gestures are effective for this. The work is spiteful.
Nevertheless, you want to attempt the same at myself.

  1. Added later: “??eeu vit”. Could this be “heeume”, misspelling of “heaume”, old french for “helmet”? There are certainly letters beginning above the g in “galea” and reaching to above the e in “prensum”, but we can’t make out enough to guess further. If the latter word is meant to be “heaume”, this must be hand F.
  2. Enjambment bracket