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Hrabanus Maurus: Epitaphia

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This is a collection of verse epitaphs by Hrabanus Maurus, abbot of Fulda and archbishop of Mainz. They commemorate churchmen and rulers of his world: Bishop Hildebrat, the biographer and courtier Einhard, the emperor Lothar, the archbishops of Mainz Haistulf and Otgar, Alcuin, the chorbishop Reginbald, Abbot Eigil of Fulda and Abbot Walahfrid, as well as Hrabanus’s own epitaph. Written mostly in elegiac couplets, they address the passer-by, name the dead, summarise their lives and ask for prayers.

The epitaph for Einhard recalls that Charles raised him in his own hall and that he brought the bodies of saints from Rome; that for Walahfrid praises him as priest, monk and abbot, skilled in verse and eloquent in prose, carried off by death while still young. Short as they are, the poems preserve contemporary judgements on major figures of the Carolingian age, and show the conventions of the early medieval verse epitaph.

About this edition. The Latin text comes from Corpus Corporum, the Latin text repository of the University of Zurich (edition: Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 112, Parisiis 1852), reused with attribution for non-commercial purposes (CC BY-NC-SA). Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.

Latin · Lyric & Elegy
Epitaphia
Hrabanus Maurus · I.–epitaphium Hiltibrati Episcopi · every word parsed
BookI.–epitaphium Hiltibrati EpiscopiIi.–epitaphium EinhardiIii.–epitaphium Lotharii ImperatorisIv.–epitaphium Haistulphi ArchiepiscopiV.–epitaphium Otgarii ArchiepiscopiVi.–epitaphium Rabani ArchiepiscopiVii.–epitaphium AlcuiniViii.–epitaphium Reginbaldi ChorepiscopiIx.–epitaphium Eigili AbbatisX.–epitaphium Walachfredi AbbatisXi.–epitaphium AdalhardiXii.–epitaphium Isanberti Presbyteri et MonachiXiii.–ejusdemXiv.–ejusdemXv.–epitaphium WigfridaeXvi.–epitaphium IrmingardisXvii.–epitaphium TutiniXviii.–epitaphium GundramniXix.–epitaphium Otdrudae Conjugis EjusXx.–epitaphium Ratlaici Presbyteri
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Pontificis clari hic requiescunt membra sepulti,
Hildibrath dicti, nempe Dei famuli:
Francia quem genuit mater, quem Fulda nutriuit,
Delectu et Patrem hunc sibi constituit.
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Nam praesul post hic humili moderamine factus,
Iugiter extersit crimina cum lacrymis.
Cuius nunc animam fac, tu Dee Christe, beatam,
Hoc dic, o lector, dic, petit ipse Pater.
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Text: Perseus Digital Library, licensed CC BY-SA. Dictionary: Lewis & Short (Perseus, CC BY-SA). Morphology: LatinCy — machine parsing, corrected against the AGDT & PROIEL treebanks and Morpheus.
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