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Nunc suscipe, terra, fovendum, gremioque hunc concipe molli. Hominis tibi membra sequestro, generosa et fragmina credo.
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Nunc suscipe, terra, fovendum,gremioque hunc concipe molli.Hominis tibi membra sequestro,generosa et fragmina credo.
prudentius— Take him, earth, for cherishing,To thy tender breast receive him.Body of a man I bring thee,Noble even in its ruin.
— "Hymnus X: Ad Exequias Defuncti", line 125 ; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (London: Constable, [1929] 1943) p. 45.
Disjecti membra poetæ.
— The scattered remnants of the poet.
— Horace, Satires, I. 4. 62
