Letter 7019: Item ad Flavum et Euodium
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Likewise, to Flavus and Euodius
How well they accord, whom one father brought up,
if a single heart holds them both at once!
Flavus and Euodius, begotten of the same flesh,
our own flesh enfolds them utterly in one love.
The one is held by my gaze in the looking upon the other,
and the likeness of the one brother gave the appearance of the other brother.
From the face of the one the face of the second is known to me:
so a form, mirrored back, renders one like to its match.
Therefore, with equal prayer offering vows of well-being to the equal pair,
I shall be a third one between the two of them:
desiring this, that those whom one same love holds in dear embraces,
three of them, this letter too may bind us together.
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Latin / Greek Original
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Item ad Flavum et Euodium
Quam bene conveniunt genitor quos sustulit unus,
si simul hos unum pectus utrosque tenet!
visceribus hisdem genitos Flavum Euodiumque
prorsus amore uno viscera nostra tegunt.
alter in alterius mihi visu visus habetur,
et fratris speciem fratris imago dedit.
unius ex facie facies mihi nota secundi:
sic speculo similem forma repressa refert.
ergo pari voto paribus dans vota salutis
ambos inter ego tertius alter ero:
hoc cupiens, ut quos caris amplexibus idem
tres amor unus habet, nos quoque Charta liget.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern venantius fortunatus retranslated v1.
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