Paolo Diacono – Paulus Diaconus

History Of The Lombards


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By feeding those who fast, according to the rite, they celebrate the feast.

       Greedy shepherds bring welcome sustenance to the cave

       But they bring back pleasing food to soothed souls.

       Fire extinguishers fire, while the flesh tears the brambles;

       The carnal fire is extinguished by the celestial fire.

       An unjust death is hidden, but from afar he warns it shrewd;

       The unjust death hidden does not bear the weapons of the cross.

       They correct the mind that wanders slight rods and discipline it;

       Slight rods close out the plague that is wandering.

       A stream of perennial water flows from the native rock;

       the arid hearts irrigate the wave of perennial water.

       At the bottom of the whirlpool you had come down, fold like a scythe detached from the handle;

       it rose to the surface, leaving the bottom of the eddy.

       Dropped into the water while waiting for his father's order, he survives;

       runs on the water, while waiting at the order of the father.

       The wave led the way to those who were ready for the master's order;

       to those who did not know where he was running, the wave made the road.

       And you, little child, are drawn on the wave and do not drown;

       and intervene, true witness too, little boy.

       The perfidious hearts stirred by evil stimuli are attracted;

       inflamed from hell perfidious hearts become sad.

       The crow takes the food offered to him by benign hands;

       and in command takes the deadly food away from the crow.

       It pains the holy heart that his enemy died in the fall;

       through the guilt of the disciple the holy heart hurts;

       On the pleasant banks of the glorious Liri guides accompany you;

       from heaven you fell to the pleasant banks of the Liri.

       Iniquitous snake, you rage stripped of the woods and the area;

       for the peoples you have lost, O unjust serpent, you are raging.

       Evil you are on top, go away: let the marble be placed on the walls;

       His order bends you: go away, wicked you're on.

       You can see a voracious fire rising with false flames;

       but you, shining Gemma, do not see that voracious fire.

       As he pulls up the wall, his brother's bowels torn;

       The brother comes back to safety as he pulls up the wall.

       What has been done in secret appears, the gluttons are revealed;

       the fact appears secretly.

       Ferocious tyrant, the nets of your deception are in vain.

       receive a brake on your life, fierce tyrant.

       The high walls of Nuka by no enemy will be torn down;

       a whirlwind - he says - knocks down the excellent walls of Numa.

       You are beaten by the fierce enemy, because you do not offer the sacred gift to the altar;

       You offer the sacred gift to the altar; you are beaten by the fierce enemy.

       In the future he sees every enclosure of the flock given to a lineage;

       but that same lineage rebuilds every enclosure of the flock.

       O servant friend of fraud, you are screwed by the serpent's enticements;

       but you are not prey to the serpent, a servant friend of fraud.

       Silent mind, keep quiet: do not murmur of those who see silent thoughts;

       everything is revealed to the prophet; shut up, mind proud.

       Foods brought down from heaven cast out black hunger;

       and at the same time the black hunger of the mind is chased away.

       All hearts are amazed that you without a body are present;

       that you in view disturb, the hearts are all amazed.

       At the command of the voice they try to stop the tongues;

       they flee the sepulchre under the command of the voice.

       they are not allowed to remain in command during the rite;

       together with the sacred rites in command of the voice.

       The earth is split and the buried body is rejected from the womb;

       at your command the broken earth holds the body in its womb.

       The perfidious dragon seduces the fugitive to hurry;

       but the evil dragon blocks the forbidden path.

       A deadly disease has shaken the gold catkin of the head;

       at his command he escaped g and the deadly disease.

       Merciful he promises to those who need it the fawn metal without having it;

       by the work of heaven the pitiful finds the metal fawn.

       You, worthy of compassion, Chuli spot snakeskin poisons;

       get your skin intact as before, or worthy of compassion.

       Fans bounce the rugged rocks off the glass, nor can they break it;

       the harsh rocks remain intact the glass.

       Why dispenser, hesitate to offer a drop of the jar?

       Look: the jars are overflowing. Why do you hesitate?

       How can you have medicine that you have no hope of salvation;

       You who always give death, how can you have medicine?

       Ah, miserable old man, you fall upon the blows of the enemy;

       but suddenly you come back to yourself, old miserable.

       The barbarian's ropes shake innocent hands;

       The barbarian's ropes are united by themselves.

       That superb horse screams threatening cries,

       prostrate on the ground lies that superb horse.

       Around the neck the father carries the beloved body of the extinct son;

       the father carries the alive son around his neck.

       Everything wins love: with the rain he bound his sister the blessed;

       sleep stays away from the eyelids, everything wins love.

       Accept for its simplicity, fly into the sky like a dove;

       Reaches the kingdom of heaven, for its simplicity.

       Or embraced God, to whom the whole universe is revealed,

       you that the arcane manifest.

       In a sphere of fire the righteous one rises into the ether;

       to which a sacred love burned or a sphere of fire closes.

       Three times called came who must witness the prodigy;

       precious for the love of his father, three times called he comes.