Johann Heinrich Schönfeld: Scythians at the Tomb of Ovid (1640)
Vincitur Aegisos testataque tempus in omne
sunt tua, Vestalis, carmine facta meo.
Vestalis
you’ve been posted here yourself
to the land of the midnight sun
to police the Hyperboreans
below the pole
you know that I’m not lying
you can see the ice
the frozen bottles
bikies
racing their hogs
along the floes
you’ve seen the poisoned nunchucks
had to fight yourself
when the stockade was attacked
(your deeds will live forever
in my verse)
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