Eusebius Riddle 29: De aetate et saltu
ALEXANDRAREIDER
Date: Mon 27 Dec 2021Original text:
Rite, vicenis cum quadragies octies una
Quaeque sororum formatur de more mearum
Nempe momentis. Tunc ego sola, peracta, videbor
Cicli nondecimus cum deficit extimus annus.
Translation:
In due manner, every twenty-four hours (1)
Each one of my sisters is formed according to custom
Without doubt. Then I alone will be seen, completed,
When the nineteenth and final year of the cycle is passed.
On the age and leap of the moon
Notes:
(1) Literally “with forty-eight by twenty momenta.”
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