Tentator
Sic, velut in muros mures, in pectora Demon
Invenit occultas, aut facit ipse, vias.
THE TEMPTER
As Mice in Walls, so Satan in man’s heart
Or finds, or makes a way with his black Art.
As Mice in Walls, so Satan in man’s heart
Or finds, or makes a way with his black Art.
The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There are only three words in this poem that are not on the DCC list:
daemon, daemonis m. - demon, devil
mūs, mūris - mouse
occultus -a -um - hidden, secret
aut: or
faciō facere fēcī factum: do, make
in: in, on (+ abl.); into, onto (+ acc)
inveniō -venīre -vēnī -ventum: find; discover
ipse ipsa ipsum: him- her- itself
mūrus -ī m.: wall
pectus -oris n.: chest, breast
sīc: in this manner, thus; sīc . . . ut: in the same way as
velut: even as, just as
via -ae f.: way, street