Re: Latin grammar

On 09/05 06:06  John Cowan wrote:
> andrew scripsit:
>
> > What about the Carmen Arvale then?  Someone around here should be able
> > to point you to the text.  (John C, perhaps?)
>
> Wow, what weird stuff.   Google found it instantly: here it is
> in old Latin, English, Italian, Spanish, and French:
> http://www.geocities.com/~stilicho/literature/carmen_arvale.html
>
I knew I had seen a Victorian translation in a book somewhere.  It took
me a while to find it:

Help us, O Lares, help us, Lares, help us.
And thou, O Marmar, suffer not
Fell plague and ruins rot
Our folk to devastate.
Be satiate, O fierce Mars, be satiate.
(Leap o'er the threshold. Halt. Now beat the ground.)
 [Thrice repeated]
(Call to your aid the heroes all.  New beat the ground.)
 [Thrice repeated]
Help us, O Marmar, help us, Marmar, help us.
(Bound high in solemn measure, bound and bound again.
 Bound high and bound again.

trans. John Wordsworth.

- andrew.
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