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Alakÿul: Avarice
Sanatur eg’ aditurus luee medele
The sick man is healed, being about to approach the light of medicine.
A missa sine tua est perdere plura necesse
Without your [thing] sent, it is necessary to lose more.
P dignus est ualde. debebit hinc tibi euum
[P] is very worthy; from this time he will owe you an age.
T repidare sine. regit te summa potestas
Be without trembling; the highest power rules you.
L ongiorem uitam t’ custodia prebet
Protection offers you a longer life.
O pus fictu’ facile tuu’ erit et inutile tibi fictile
Your work feigned will be easy and useless to you fragile.
D octrina tua mala est cum illa peribis
Your teaching is bad; with it you will perish.
H ec bona si mala est credo mutabit i’
These goods—if [fortune] is bad, I believe she will change them [for the better].
I nuoca datore’ deum q’ dabit honore’
Invoke God the giver, who will give honor.
S epe quod optas melius te fata deducunt ine
Fate leads you better than what you often desire in the end.
C vntis adde decus tibi diuicie plures
Add grace to all things; more riches shall be yours.
Y elis si dominos habebis plimos ista
If you wish, you will have very many masters in these matters.
Y ietus eris ete bellum si feceris istud
You will be conquered if you wage this war.
F ugit de carce’ r’ uenit p’tinu’ ille
He flees from prison and he comes immediately.
H anc due uxore’ h’i dileccio tua. est
Take this woman as wife; here is your love. it is
C aute facit multu’ r’ perdere te cupit host’
He acts very cautiously, and the enemy desires to destroy you.
I n parte ueniet spes tua g’ra tibi
Your hope will come in part; grace shall be to you.
D apna uentura t’ pro c’to fida docent
Faithful signs teach for certain that losses are coming to you.
E uis fortune succedunt prosp’a cuncta
All prosperous things follow upon a brief fortune.
H eres tuus bonus dilect’ omnib; erit
Your heir will be good and beloved by all.
R editum tuu’ i’ iusta iudicia dabunt
They will grant your return into just judgments.
R oga creatorem q’ mala uisio tua
Ask the Creator, for your vision is bad.
S ecure meatum isto sub fide facit
He makes his passage securely under this faith.
V otum si p’res p’tabunt alia loca
If you offer a vow, other places will carry it.
I ncedas caute consort diligere te uult q’ diligit s’bdolo te uult
Walk cautiously; your companion wishes to love you who loves you deceitfully.
I ngrede nūc uiam r’ perfice fide bono
Enter the way now and finish it with good faith.
V ulcis amor nūtius r’ dulcia fecta uita
Sweet love is a messenger, and sweet deeds are made in life.
I mpediunt multa n’ uenit pegremissus
Many things impede; the messenger sent from abroad does not come.
Head of the Scorpion