Eusebius Riddle 49: De amphisbaena serpente
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Date: Mon 27 Dec 2021Original text:
Flexosis geminum contractibus in caput errans
Curro, caput nam trux aliud mea cauda retentat.
Flammigeros gestans animos ex more lucernae,
Viperei generis solam, me confero brumae.
Translation:
Toing and froing in sinuous contractions, on a double head
I move, for my tail contains another fierce head.
Bearing spirits fiery like a lamp,
I bring myself, alone among viper-kind, into the cold.
On the two-headed snake
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