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A moro muerto gran lançada.

Ottava rhima.

Hares nibbling at the corpse of a lion.
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Como despues de herido de la mano
Del impio Achilles viesse ansi arrastrarse
Hector[1], en derredor de aquel Troyano
Muro, no pudo menos de esforçarse
A baldonar un pueblo tan profano,
Qualquier (diciendo) venga en mi à vengarse
Que ansi las liebres pelan (como es cierto)
La barba d’el leon despues de muerto.[2]

Notes:

1.  Hector was the greatest warrior on the Trojan side in the Trojan War, killed in single combat by Achilles, the Greek champion. See Homer, Iliad 22.367ff. and 24.14ff. for Achilles’ desecration of Hector’s body, dragging it, tied by the feet behind his chariot, round the tomb of Patroclus.

2.  The end of the verse is based on the two-line epigram Anthologia graeca 16.4, where, in Planudes’ text, the words are attributed to Hector in the heading.

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PAREM DELINQUENTIS ET
suasoris culpam esse.

The one who urges wrongdoing is as guilty as the one who does the wrong

Group of men outside a castle, one with a trumpet
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Praeconem lituo perflantem classica victrix,
Captivum in tetro carcere turma tenet.
Quîs ille excusat, quod nec sit strenuus armis,
Ullius aut saevo leserit ense latus.
Hinc[1] illi quin ipse magis timidissime peccas,
Qui clangore alios aeris in arma cies.[2]

The victorious troop holds captive in a foul dungeon a herald, who sounds military commands on his trumpet. To them he makes his excuses - he is no strong fighting man and has wounded no one’s side with a cruel sword. They reply: You abject coward, you are in fact more guilty, for you with the sound of your trumpet stir up others to fight.

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1.  Later editions have Huic.

2.  This is a version of Aesop, Fables 325.

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