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Poem #41

De nostrorum temporum calamitatibus silva. Ad lectorem
written before 1529-12-09 first edition 1530-01

Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 274, No. 179, p. 328-340


Early printed source materials:
1DANTISCUS 1530 Antverpia (Ad lectorem) (in extenso)
2DANTISCUS 1530 Bononia (Ad lectorem) (in extenso)
3DANTISCUS 1530 Köln (Ad lectorem) (in extenso)
4DANTISCUS 1530 Cracovia (Ad lectorem) (in extenso)
5DANTISCUS 1571 (Ad lectorem) p. A6v (in extenso)
6DANTISCUS 1576 (Ad lectorem) p. A6v (in extenso)
7DANTISCUS 1764 (De nostrorum temporum calamitatibus silva. Ad lectorem.) p. 62-63 (in extenso)

Prints:
1DANTISCUS 1902 (Ad lectorem) p. 18 (in extenso)
2DANTISCUS 1938 (O klęskach naszych czasów. Do czytelnika) No. 11, p. 81-82 (Polish translation, Jan Michał HARHALA)
3Dantisci Carmina (De nostrorum temporum calamitatibus silva. Ad lectorem) No. 35. 1, p. 140 (in extenso)

 

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Cum nova delectent, nova, lector, Sarmata vates
Edidit in Latio carmina; nonne placent?
Si re non alia, placeant novitate, quod ante
In Latio vates Sarmata rarus erat.
Naso, Tomitanas quondam datus exsul ad oras,
Edidicit Getice Sarmaticeque loqui.
Hesperice sic forte loqui, dum missus utramque
Hesperiam peragro, me didicisse puta!
Si quid inest igitur tersumve minusve politum,
Hac veniam iusta cum ratione dabis.
Extorsit faciles numeros miserabile tempus,
Quo tanto rerum turbine cuncta fluunt.
Si de Castalio non spirant fonte liquores
Nec redolent Phoebum Pieridumve choros,
Ne contemne tamen, sed rem perpende legendo!
Cum sensum teneas, nil ego verba moror.