Tatwine Riddle 14: De caritate
ALEXANDRAREIDER
Date: Wed 05 Jan 2022Original text:
Haud tristis, gemino sub nexu vincula gesto.
Vincta resolvo ligata iterumque soluta ligabo.
Est mirum dictu ardent quod mea viscera flammis.
Nemo, tamen, sentit fera vinctus dampna cremandi:
Sed mulcent ea plus vinctum quam dulcia mella.
Translation:
Not sad, I bear fetters under a twin bond.
I free those bound and tied and in turn I will bind the free.
It is miraculous to say how my insides burn with flames.
No one who is bound, however, feels the cruel injuries of burning:
Rather, they appease the bound more than sweet honey.
On charity
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