Tatwine Riddle 16: De praepositione utriusque casus
ALEXANDRAREIDER
Date: Wed 05 Jan 2022Original text:
Emerita gemina sortis sub lege tenemur,
Nam tollenti nos, stabiles, servire necesse est.
Causanti, contra, cursus comitamur eundo,
Sicque vicissim bis binae coniungimur ambis
Quippe sorores decreta stat legibus urna.
Translation:
We are held under tried-and-tested, two-fold law of fate,
For it is necessary that we, stationary, serve that which removes.
Moving, on the contrary, we join that which advances a cause,
And thus we twice-two sisters are joined to both in turn;
Indeed, our decreed lot stands subject to these laws.
On the preposition governing two cases
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