Latin Poetry Podcast

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Vt uidit Agnes stare trucem uirum
mucrone nudo, laetior haec ait:
`exulto, talis quod potius uenit,
uaesanus, atrox, turbidus, armiger,
quam si ueniret languidus ac tener
mollisque efybus tinctus aromate,
qui me pudoris funere perderet.
Hic, hic amator iam, fateor, placet;
ibo inruentis gressibus obuiam
nec demorabor uota calentia:
ferrum in papillas omne recepero
pectusque ad imum uim gladii traham.
Sic nupta Christo transiliam poli
omnes tenebras aethere celsior.’
. . .

Sic fata Christum uertice cernuo
supplex adorat, uulnus ut inminens
ceruix subiret prona paratius.
Ast ille tantam spem peragit manu,
uno sub ictu nam caput amputat,
sensum doloris mors cita praeuenit.

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