{"id":10952,"date":"2011-07-22T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/?p=10952"},"modified":"2011-07-22T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:24:36","slug":"the-fall-of-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/2011\/07\/22\/the-fall-of-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"

“De mutata Romae fortuna,” incerti auctoris, ed. N. E. Lemaire, Poetae Latini Minores<\/em> vol. 4 (Paris, 1825), pp. 537-538.

\"Romulus<\/a>

Romulus Augustulus Deposed<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

De mutata Romae fortuna<\/a><\/p>\n

Nobilibus quondam fueras c\u014dnstructa patr\u014dn\u012bs
\nsubdita nunc servis, heu, male Roma tuis.<\/span>
\nDeseruere tui tanto te tempore reges;
\ncessit et ad Graecos nomen honosque tuus.<\/span>
\nC\u014dnstant\u012bnopolis florens, nova Roma vocatur,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5
\nmoribus et muris Roma vetusta cadis.<\/span>
\nTransiit imperium, mansitque superbia tecum;
\ncultus avaritiae te nimium superat.<\/span>
\nVulgus ab extremis distractum partibus orbis,
\nservorum servi, nunc tibi sunt domini.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10
\nIn te nobilium rectorum nemo remansit,
\ningenuique tui rura Pelasga colunt.<\/span>
\nTruncasti vivos crudeli funere sanctos,
\nvendere nunc horum mortua membra soles.<\/span>
\nNam nisi te meritum Petri Paullique foveret,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15
\ntempore iam longo Roma misella fores.<\/span><\/p>\n

My translation:<\/p>\n

Once upon a time you had been built up by noble patrons; now, alas, Rome, you are shamefully subjected to your (former) slaves (i.e. the Goths). The emperors who ruled here for such a long time have abandoned you, and your name and title have been ceded to the Greeks. Flourishing Constantinople is called the New Rome, and old Rome is falling, in both the walls and the character (of its people). Political power has moved along, and your haughty attitude has remained with you; the pursuit of avarice is too much your downfall. A rabble drawn from the furthest regions of the earth, the slaves of slaves, are now your masters. None of the old noble leaders has stayed with you, and your native born sons tend Greek lands. You\u00a0 mained, mutilated and cruelly killed living saints; now you often set up a trade in pieces of their dead bodies. For if you were not keeping alive the memory of the good deeds of Peter and Paul, you would long ago have become a sad little town.<\/p>\n

The Gibbonesque quote <\/a>about men’s minds being “pusillanimous, gloomy, and spiritless” comes from The Life and Letters of Barthold George Niebuhr, and Selections from his Minor Writings<\/em>, ed. Susanna Winkworth, 2nd ed., vol. 3 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1852), pp. 282-283, in\u00a0an essay called “Sketch of the History of the City of Rome,” written in 1823.<\/p>\n

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“De mutata Romae fortuna,” incerti auctoris, ed. N. E. Lemaire, Poetae Latini Minores vol. 4 (Paris, 1825), pp. 537-538. De mutata Romae fortuna Nobilibus quondam fueras c\u014dnstructa patr\u014dn\u012bs subdita nunc servis, heu, male Roma tuis. Deseruere tui tanto te tempore reges; cessit et ad Graecos nomen honosque tuus. C\u014dnstant\u012bnopolis florens, nova Roma vocatur,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 moribus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725],"tags":[5521,5520],"class_list":["post-10952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-poetry-podcast","tag-elegiac-couplets","tag-fall-of-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}