Eusebius Riddle 32: De membrano
ALEXANDRAREIDER
Date: Mon 27 Dec 2021Original text:
Antea per nos vox resonabat verba nequaquam.
Distincta sine nunc voce edere verba solemus.
Candida sed cum arva, lustramur milibus atris.
Viva nihil loquimur; responsum mortua famur.
Translation:
Formerly a voice did not utter words through us at all.
Now it is our custom to declare words without articulated voice.
Though white fields, we are traversed by innumerable black things.
Alive, we say nothing; dead, we speak our response.
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Tags: riddles latin Eusebius