Eusebius Riddle 58: De noctua
ALEXANDRAREIDER
Date: Mon 27 Dec 2021Original text:
Garrula, nigriferas noctis discurro per umbras,
Vitans luciflui suffundi lumine Phoebi.
Nomen habens furvum, visus habitatus ob ortam
Titanis lucem, at Cretensis tellus habere
Sola nequibit me, potius, aliunde relata,
Extemplo austriferi patior discrimina loeti.
Translation:
Noisy, I run through the night’s dark-bearing shadows,
Avoiding suffusion with the light of shining Phoebus.
I have a nocturnal name, my vision weakened by the rising
Light of Titan, but the land of Crete alone
Will never hold me, but rather, brought here from elsewhere,
I immediately suffer the crises of violent death brought on the south wind.
On the night owl
Tags: riddles latin Eusebius