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Latin 05r

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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 05r

I maintain this grasp on 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.[3]
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
  3. The countering gestures are grammatically surrounded by spite.