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Hagen sees his nephew Patavrid going off to fight Walther and laments the evil wreaked on mankind by greed (846–877)

Sextus erat Patavrid. soror hunc germana Haganonis  Aeineid 10.810-811: Lausum increpitat Lausoque minatur: ‘quo moriture ruis maioraque viribus audes?/ fallit te incautum pietas tua.’ ‘He chides Lausus and threatens Lausus: “Where are you rushing to death, with your daring beyond your strength? Your love is betraying you into rashness.” ’

 

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Elision: H-ELISION: germana Haganonis
 
Protulit ad lucem. quem dum procedere vidit,  Quem: Patavrid; the subject is Hagen, watching from his hill.

 

 Aeineid 10.810-811: Lausum increpitat Lausoque minatur: ‘quo moriture ruis maioraque viribus audes?/ fallit te incautum pietas tua.’ ‘He chides Lausus and threatens Lausus: “Where are you rushing to death, with your daring beyond your strength? Your love is betraying you into rashness.” ’

 

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Vocibus et precibus conatur avunculus inde  Avunculus: cf. Tac. Germ. 20 on the importance of this familial relationship among the Germanic tribes.

 

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Flectere proclamans: 'quonam ruis? aspice mortem,  Aeineid 12.800: precibusque inflectere nostris. ‘Yield to my entreaties.’ Aeineid 10.811: quo moriture ruis? ‘Where are you rushing to death?’ Prudentius, Psychomachia 352: quo ruitis? ‘To what fate are you rushing?’

 

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Qualiter arridet! desiste! en ultima Parcae 850  Parcae: the three sisters of Classical antiquity who controlled the destiny of humans, also known as the Fates or Moirae, had a counterpart in the Germanic Norns.

 

 Aeineid 12.60: unum oro: desiste manum committere Teucris. ‘One boon I beg: forbear to join combat with the Trojans.’ 10.814-815.: extrema Lauso/ Parcae fila legunt. ‘The Fates gather up Lausus’ last threads.’

 

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Elision: desiste en
 
Fila legunt. o care nepos, te mens tua fallit.  Aeineid 10.812: fallit te incautum pietas tua. ‘Your love is betraying you into rashness.’

 

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Desine! Waltharii tu denique viribus impar.'  Aeineid 12.800: desine iam tandem. ‘Cease now, I pray you.’ 10.458-459.: si qua fors adiuvet ausum/ viribus imparibus. . . ‘In the hope that chance would aid the venture of his ill-matched strength. . .’ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.610: ego viribus inpar. . . ‘I, being ill-matched in strength. . .’ Lucan, De Bello Civili 2.607-608.: sic viribus inpar/ tradidit Hesperiam. ‘Thus he surrendered Italy to his stronger rival.’

 

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Infelix tamen ille means haec omnia sprevit,  SDDSDS 
Arsit enim venis laudem captare cupiscens.  Aeineid 12.71: ardet in arma magis. ‘He burns yet more for the fray.’

 

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Tristatusque Hagano suspiria pectore longa 855  Aeineid 1.371: suspirans imoque trahens a pectore vocem. . . ‘Sighing and drawing every word deep from his breast. . .’ Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.402-403.: suspiria duxit ab imo/ pectore. ‘She sighed deeply from the bottom of her heart.’

 

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Elision: H-ELISION: tristatusque Hagano
 
Traxit et has imo fudit de corde loquelas:  Aeineid 5.842: funditque has ore loquelas. ‘He pours these accents from his lips.’

 

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O vortex mundi, fames insatiatus habendi,  Insatiatus equiv. to insatiata, an anomaly.

 

 Prudentius, Psychomachia 478-479.: nec parcit propriis amor insatiatus habendi/ pigneribus. ‘The insatiable love of possession spares not his own dear ones.’ Hamartigenia 254-255.: sorbeat ut cumulos nummorum faucibus amplis/ gurges avaritiae, finis quam nullus habendi/ temperat. . .inde seges scelerum, radix et sola malorum. ‘The maw of greed swallows piles of money down its wide throat, since no limit of possession controls it. . .Hence comes a crop of sins and the sole root of evil.’ Epistula Ad Timotheum I 6.10: radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas. ‘For the desire of money is the root of all evils.’

 

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Gurges avaritiae, cunctorum fibra malorum!  Fibra equiv. to radix

 

 Prudentius, Psychomachia 478-479.: nec parcit propriis amor insatiatus habendi/ pigneribus. ‘The insatiable love of possession spares not his own dear ones.’ Hamartigenia 254-255.: sorbeat ut cumulos nummorum faucibus amplis/ gurges avaritiae, finis quam nullus habendi/ temperat. . .inde seges scelerum, radix et sola malorum. ‘The maw of greed swallows piles of money down its wide throat, since no limit of possession controls it. . .Hence comes a crop of sins and the sole root of evil.’ Epistula Ad Timotheum I 6.10: radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas. ‘For the desire of money is the root of all evils.’

 

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O utinam solum gluttires dira metallum  Dira: sc. Avaritia

 

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Hiatus: o utinam
 
Divitiasque alias, homines impune remittens! 860  DDDSDS
Elision: divitiasque alias
 
Sed tu nunc homines perverso numine perflans  Aeineid 7.584: contra fata deum perverso numine poscunt. ‘Despite the oracles of gods, with perverse will clamour for unholy war.’

 

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Incendis nullique suum iam sufficit. ecce  SSDSDS 
Non trepidant mortem pro lucro incurrere turpem.  DSSSDS
Elision: lucro incurrere
 
Quanto plus retinent, tanto sitis ardet habendi.  Boethius, Philosophiae Consolationis 2.2.17-18.: largis potius muneribus fluens/ sitis ardescit habendi. ‘Even in those whose wealth is overflowing, the thirst for gain still burns.’ 2.5.26: fervens amor ardet habendi. ‘The hot lust for gain burns.’

 

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Externis modo vi modo furtive potiuntur 865  Retinent equiv. to habent
Tanto: sc. magis

 

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Et, quod plus renovat gemitus lacrimasque ciebit,  Aeineid 6.468: lacrimasque ciebat. ‘He stirred up tears.’

 

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Caeligenas animas Erebi fornace retrudunt.  Caeligenas: “born from heaven”

 

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Ecce ego dilectum nequeo revocare nepotem,  DSDDDS
Elision: ecce ego
 
Instimulatus enim de te est, o saeva cupido.  Statius, Silvae 2.1.214: saeva cupido. . . ‘Fierce desire. . .’

 

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Elision: te est
 
En caecus mortem properat gustare nefandam 870  Secundum Mattheum 16.28: non gustabunt mortem. ‘They will not taste death.’

 

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Et vili pro laude cupit descendere ad umbras.  Aeineid 6.404: imas Erebi descendit ad umbras. ‘He descends to the lowest shades of Erebus.’

 

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Elision: descendere ad
 
Heu, mihi care nepos, quid matri, perdite, mandas?  Quid equiv. to Quae ultima verba

 

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Quis nuper ductam refovebit, care, maritam,  SSDSDS 
Cui nec, rapte spei, pueri ludicra dedisti?  Pueri: objective genitive

 

 Prudentius, Psychomachia 298: expertus pueri quid possint ludicra parvi. ‘He found what a little child’s toy can do.’

 

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Quis tibi nam furor est? unde haec dementia venit?' 875  Georgics 4.495: quis tantus furor? ‘What dreadful madness. . .?’ Aeineid 5.670: quis furor iste novus? ‘What strange madness is this?’ Prudentius, Psychomachia 351: quis furor insanas agitat caligine mentes? ‘What blinding madness is vexing your disordered minds?’ Aeineid 6.373: unde haec, o Palinure, tibi tam dira cupido? ‘Whence, Palinurus, comes this wild longing of yours?’9.601: quae vos dementia adegit? ‘What madness has driven you?’

 

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Elision: unde haec
 
Sic ait et gremium lacrimis conspersit obortis,  Aeineid 4.30: sic effata sinum lacrimis implevit obortis. ‘So saying, she filled her breast with upwelling tears.’ 3.492: hos ego digrediens lacrimis adfabar obortis. ‘My tears welled up as I spoke to them my parting words.’ 6.867: tum pater Anchises lacrimis ingressus obortis. ‘Then, as his tears well up, Father Anchises begins.’

 

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Et longum 'formose, vale' singultibus edit.  Eclogue 3.79: et longum, ‘formose, vale, vale,’ inquit, Iolla. ‘She cried in halting accents, Iollas: “Farewell, farewell, my lovely!” ’

 

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