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User:Kendra Brown/Florius/English MS Latin 11269 05v
Latin 05v
- ¶ Crure simul stafile levans / te vertet ad imum
Hec mea dextra potens. nec erit quae molliat artus.[1]
¶ Aspice quam forti teneo tua[2] colla lacerto /
Qui modo per terram frustra conatis[3] inermem[4]
Spargere[5] tentabas. sed te contraria vincunt .
Italian
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I want to lift your leg with the stirrup, |
[33b-a] La staffa cum la gamba te voio levar |
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You wanted to throw me well from my horse; |
[33b-b] De cavallo tu me volisti ben butare |
English 05v
¶ Lifting by the leg and also by the stirrup[6], this, my strong right [hand],
will turn you to the farthest [the ground], nor will there be anything which would enfeeble [my] limb [arm].
¶ Observe how I hold your neck with my strong upper arm
In this way, you have attempted in vain with these efforts to scatter the Weaponless One
to the ground, but the counters conquer you.[7]
- ↑ To the right of the verse are a bracket, a +, and some erased words. The binding did not open wide enough to reveal these with ultraviolet photography.
- ↑ Added later: "pro tui".
- ↑ This can also be read "conatus"
- ↑ Added later: "scilicet".
- ↑ This separation between the initial letter and remainder of the first word of the line is inconsistent with the rest of the text.
- ↑ stafile is probably a form of staffa, listed in DMLBS meaning "stirrup" and borrowed from German
- ↑ Curiously, these clauses appear to state the necessary actions in the reverse order: this is the counter to the previous action, if you attempt it, I will throw my arm around your neck.
