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Poem #35

De procrastinata audientia
written 1523-01-04 — 1523-01-05 first edition 1764-04-30 — 1764-12-31

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, BNW, BOZ, 2053, TG 23, No. 2855, f. 216


Early printed source materials:
1DANTISCUS 1764 (Epigramma de procrastinata audientia apud Carolum V caesarem) p. 142-143 (in extenso)

Prints:
1DANTISCUS 1938 (Epigram na odroczona audjencję u cesarza Karola V) p. 179-180 (Polish translation, Jan Michał HARHALA)
2Dantisci Carmina (De procrastinata audientia) No. 29, p. 136-137 (in extenso; facsimile, Appendix, No. 1, p. 305)

 

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Quam sit Sarmaticis orator gratus ab oris,
In primis domus, in qua manet, arcta probat.
Et probat hoc, quod eum non vult admittere caesar,
In nonum trahitur iam sua causa diem.
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Regius, o caesar, si non honor et sacra iura,
Sanguinis et si te vincula nulla movent,
lnclinata tamen te nunc Res publica flectat,
Ob quam tam durum per mare fecit iter!
Si nescis, Hunni patiuntur idemque Poloni;
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Commune exitium non procul esse timent.
Quod si conciderint — di talem avertite casum! —
Post se quod reliquum est, ista ruina trahet.
Est grave de is audire tibi? Graviora profecto
Facta videbuntur, nunc quibus esset opus.
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Nunc poteris teneras, si vis, exstinguere flammas,
Posthac, dum crescent, nulla iuvabit aqua.