Friday, January 15th, 2010...11:41 amfrancese
To a Glutton (Francesco Filelfo, Odes 1.9)
Si te trux adeo podagra torquet,
nec cessat laterum dolor, podarge,
affligitque premens nec exeundi
urinae reperit viam profusus
imber, pone modum gulae voraci 5
et dirae veneri. Quibus per omnis
quando luxurias ruis protervus,
morbum non pateris subactus unum.
Membris te cruciat doloris haerens
aestus. Quo penitus furis procellis 10
excitus rabidis per omne mentis
excussae facinus, trahit volentem
hanc corpus, ratio quod ipsa nullis
fraenis compositum suprema rexit.
Hinc fervet vitiis furens et atrae 15
pestis flammigerum recludit aestum.
Hinc humana simul deumque iura
contemnit penitus nefas omne
praeceps flagitiisque prona cunctis.
Quod si sustuleris nimis, podarge, 20
quod praestas veneri gulaeque turgens,
nec torquebere corporis dolore,
nec tot nequitiis comes protervus
accedes populo levis susurrus.
Text: Francesco Filelfo, Odes, ed. and trans. Diana Robin in the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009)
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1 Comment
August 12th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Hi there,
Just a note to say I really enjoyed this podcast, it was very interesting to hear what a neo-latin poet did with the hendecasyllable.
I have just discovered your podcast via itunes and I am working my way through the back catalogue. Thanks very much for making this material available!
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