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Translation15 lines have been partly excised to remove the initial I ( for Ignis). The lines are completed here.and have angered me with their worthlessness./ And I will provoke them with those who are no people: and will vex them with a foolish nation./ Fire is kindled in my wrath: and shall burn even to the last hell./ It shall devour the earth with her shoots: and burn up the foundations of the mountains./ I will heap evils upon them: and will spend my arrows among them./ They shall be consumed by famine: and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite./ I will send the teeth of beasts upon them: and with the frenzy of serpents that trail along the ground./ Outside the sword shall lay waste to them and terror within: both the young man and the virgin and the sucking child with the aged man./ And I said./ where are they:/ I will make their memory cease from among men./ But I have delayed it on account of the wrath of the enemies: |
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Transcriptionet irritauer[un]t in uanitatib[us] suis./ Et ego p[ro]uocabo eos in eo q[u]i n[on] est pop[u]l[u]s: et in gente stulta irritabo illos./ [[I]]GNIS SVCC/E\NS[US] EST in furore meo: et ardebit usq[u]e ad inferni nouissima./ Deuorabitq[u]e terram cu[m] germine suo: et montiu[m] fundamenta co[n]buret./ Co[n]gregabo sup[er] eos mala: et sagittas meas co[n]plebo in eis./ Consumentur fame: et deuorab[un]t [[+ 1, e]]os aues morsu amarissimo./ [[+ 6, dentes, + 3, bes]]tiaru[m] i[n]mitta[m] in eos: cu[m] furore trahentiu[m] sup[er] t[er]ra[m] atq[u]e serpentiu[m]./ Foris uastabit eos gladi[us] et int[us] pauor: iuuene[m] simul ac uirgine[m] lactente[m] cum homine sene./ Et dixi./ ubinam sunt:/ c[a]essare faciam ex hominib[us] memoria[m] eor[um]./ Sed p[ro]pt[er] ira[m] inimicor[um] distuli: |
Translation15 lines have been partly excised to remove the initial I ( for Ignis). The lines are completed here.and have angered me with their worthlessness./ And I will provoke them with those who are no people: and will vex them with a foolish nation./ Fire is kindled in my wrath: and shall burn even to the last hell./ It shall devour the earth with her shoots: and burn up the foundations of the mountains./ I will heap evils upon them: and will spend my arrows among them./ They shall be consumed by famine: and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite./ I will send the teeth of beasts upon them: and with the frenzy of serpents that trail along the ground./ Outside the sword shall lay waste to them and terror within: both the young man and the virgin and the sucking child with the aged man./ And I said./ where are they:/ I will make their memory cease from among men./ But I have delayed it on account of the wrath of the enemies:
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