Stay me with flowers; his left hand; I adjure you
Stay me with flowers, heap me with apples, for I languish with love. His left hand under my head, and his right hand will embrace me. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and stags of the field, not to raise or awaken love until she please. Thus far the Second Book has woven its first series of lemmas from I am black through the bundle and the cluster and the couch as far as the adjuration; what follows will come in the next tips.
Latin
Fulcite me floribus, stipate me malis, quia amore langueo. Sinistra eius sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexabitur me. Adiuro vos, filiae Hierusalem, per capreas cervosque camporum, ne suscitetis neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, quoadusque ipsa velit. Hucusque Liber Secundus primam seriem lemmatorum a Nigra sum per fasciculum et botrum et lectulum usque ad adiurationem contexuit; sequentia in proximis tipis.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber II (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber II. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber II §§1–20 (closeout).
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- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber II §§1–20)
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