Hexameters from the Chronicle of Æthelweard University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/ÆTHELWEARD.Edgar.Vers Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems Hexameters from the Chronicle of Æthelweard
Annis sextenis siquidem per regna meatus, Bisque dies numero tenuit minus obice septem, (Argiuæ hebdomadas gentis posuere magistri, Septimanas recitant post quas nunc uoce Latini. Tingite nunc calamo, Musæ, propriumque uocate Carmen, et ignoto uentis properate secundis. Cum placido steterint fontes, aperite poetam.) Fungitur interea regno post anax in arce, Akimannis castrum a priscis iam nomine dicta, Nec Bathum ab aliis non pro feruentibus undis. Costis pentidies fuerat quam quondam honore Bradifonus domino Moyses sacrarat amore. Aduenit et populus pariter sine nomine turmæ, Quin etiam ferro syncipite rasi corona.