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The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies ‘Neo-Latin Podcast’ introduces and presents selected pieces from the wide-ranging and diverse world of Neo-Latin literature. In line with the Institute's wider goals, the podcast aims to underline the importance of Neo-Latin and to garner enthusiasm for some of its well-known pieces as well as its very many hidden gems.
Ver placidum, frondeis nemori, syluisque reponens,
Quas glacialis hiems Borea grassante hiemali
Discussit, renovatque comas, formosaque prata.
Ergo iam rident silvae, iam frondibus arbos
Luxuriat fecunda novis: iam palmite gemmae
Turgent in vitidi segetes iam laetus opimas
Fundit ager, multo reddens cum foenore semen,
Et blando strepidant volucrum nemora avia cantu;
Indomiti pariter cessant Eurique Notique,
Trux Aquilo cessat, tantum per florea rura
Regna tenent molles Zephyri, atque tepentior aura
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Ego Carolus de Malatestis Armini, et nonnullarum aliarum terrarum in temporalibus Vicarius, necnon Provinciae Romandiolae Rector pro Sanctissimo in Christo Patre Nomine Gregorio divina providentia Papa Duodecimo et Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae generalis, atque eiusdem Sanctissimi Domini nostri Papae procurator, habens ad infra scripta plenum, speciale et irrevocabile mandatum, quemadmodum constat per bullam authenticam Sanctissimi Domini nostri praedicti proxime lectam, nulla oppressus aut coactus violentia aut nullo ductus errore, ut omnibus aperte patea
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Castitatem ut pupillam oculi servabat tam illaesam ut, media in barbarie ipsoque ut ita dicam libidinis in regno, purus semper atque integerrimus perstiterit, haud minus quam si desertas rupes atque inaccessa hominibus loca solus incoluisset. Quadam die obviam habuit foeminam, remoto ab arbitris in loco, quae fidem eius tentavit haud obscuris verbis. Haec foeda in aures viri castissimi non in pectus, descenderunt.
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Hi in herbis et arundinibus latitantes, ubi ad eum locum pervenimus in quo nobis insidias paraverant, bombardas, quas satis magna numero habebant, exploserunt, occiderunt tamen neminem. Ad primos bombarbarum ictus, Hurones paene omnes, relictis canois - ad littus enim, quod media in alveo concitatior sit amnis, adnavigabamus - concitata fuga se in penitissimas sylvas abdiderunt. Relicti igitur nos Galli quatuor cum paucis, partim christianis vel catechumenis praemissa ad Christum oratione hosti resistimus.
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Baianas petiit Batilla thermas / Dumque illi tener it comes Cupido / Atque una lavat et fovetur una, / Dum molli simul in toro quiescit / Ac ludos facit improbasque rixas, / Sopito pueroque lassuloque / Arcum surripuit Batilla ridens, / Mox picta latus instruit pharetra / Et molles iacit huc et huc sagittas. / Nil, o nil reliquum miselli amantes, / Nil his impenetrabile est sagittis: / Heu, cladem iuvenum senumque, Baias!
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Mons Vogesus sumit Rhaetis ex Alpibus ortum / Et viridi costa te quoque, Trevir, adit, / Gallica Teutonicis qui separat arva colonis, / Ex cuius venis multa fluenta scatent. / Occiduum pars aspectans Titana perenne / Frondet pinetis conspcienda suis, / Et Mosam et Mortam, Mortanam, te quoque Sella, / Immittit Gallis divite fonte plagis. / Confluit unda omnis haec antea (vidimus ispi), / Quam Mediomatricum videt urbis agros. / Hince Mosella, unum gemino de nomine nomen, / Ingreditur Rhenum, pluribus auctus aquis.
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Stylum et elocutionem quod attinet, hic equidem quantus in re Poetica sis, appareat. Cave solem unquam suo nomine appelles. Phoebum semper, quin ne sic quidem, multi enim forent, qui hoc nomen intelligerent. Hyperione natum dicito, aut quid ejusmodi. Phaetontis currus, Pyrois, Eous, et Aethon tibi carmen assiduo impleant. Si de inferis loquaris, non Styga, non Lethem, sed nec Phlegetonta silebis. Denique conare, ut tragoedia tua totius sit Mythologiae synopsis.
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2.152: Abscindi passus caput est a corpore Morus, / Abscindi crines noluit a capite. // 2.85: Stultitiae laudem scripsisti primus, Erasme. / Indicat ingenium stultitia ista tuum. // 1.79: Cum verbum sit eras, mus nomen, quid sit Erasmus / Ingenio lector colligat inde suo.
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Horace, Odes 3.21: O nata mecum consule Manlio, / seu tu querelas siue geris iocos / seu rixam et insanos amores / seu facilem, pia testa, somnum [...] // Balde, Odes 1.12: O nata Capri sidere frigido, / Seu tu querelam sive geris minas, / Seu ventris insanum tumultum et / Difficilem, mala testa, somnum; // Quocumque servas nomine toxicum / Numquam moveri digna bono die, / Averte nolenti poetae / Promere languidius venenum // Non ille, quamquam Gorgoneis madet / Assuetus undis, te bibet horridus. / Narratur et Boius Menalcas / Saepe tuo doluisse aceto.
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