Sunday, July 11, 2021
Sine Qua Non
Maximianus, Elegies 5.111-116 (tr. A.M. Juster):
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It makes the human race, the herds, the birds, the beastsThe antecedent of the pronouns haec and hac is mentula (prick).
and everything that breathes throughout the world.
Without it there's no union of the different sexes;
the highest grace of marriage dies without it.
It brings together coupled minds with its strong bond
so that the pair combine to be one flesh.
haec genus humanum, pecudum, volucrumque, ferarum
et quicquid toto spirat in orbe, creat
hac sine diversi nulla est concordia sexus,
hac sine coniugii gratia summa perit.
haec geminas tanto constringit foedere mentes,
unius ut faciat corporis esse duo.
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