Aldhelm Riddle 90: Puerpera geminas enixa

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Date: Thu 14 Apr 2022
Original text:

Sunt mihi sex oculi, totidem simul auribus hausi,
Sed digitos decies senos in corpore gesto;
Ex quibus ecce quater denis de carne revulsis
Quinquies at tantum video remanere quaternos.

Translation:

I have six eyes, at the same time as I perceive sound with exactly that many ears,
But I carry sixty fingers and toes on my person;
And yet behold, with forty of them torn from my flesh,
I see that only twenty remain.

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Woman Birthing Twins


Notes:

This edition is based on Rudolf Ehwald, ed. Aldhelmi Opera Omnia. Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores Antiquissimi, 15. Berlin: Weidmann, 1919, pages 59-150. Available online here. 



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