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XX

Tarda, gradu lento, specioso praedita dorso;
Docta quidem studio, sed duro prodita fato
Viva nihil dixi, quae sic modo mortua canto.

Peck:

My gait is slow, though splendidly I'm dressed,
And learnèd, though by envious fate oppressed,
Alive I nothing say, but dead, my voice is blessed.

Ohl:

Slow, with tardy tread and beauteous back endowed; learned indeed in my zeal, but by cruel fate betrayed, when living not a word I spoke, who dead in this wise sing.

Editor's Additional Notes:

zzz:

zzz: zzz

Ohl's Critical Notes on the Latin Text:

1 gradu lentu zzz A1 — spatioso Heum.

v. 3, 2 transponit Schenkl

2 sevo duro A; duro B; seva d — praedita GHI; perdita Heum.

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