Rectius vives (Alexander Utendal)

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• (Posted 2023-07-25)  CPDL #74667:         

Editor: Ulrich Alpers (submitted 2023-07-25).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 161 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: Rectius vives
Composer: Alexander Utendal
Lyricist: Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Unknown, Unknown

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1577 in Cantiones sacrae, Liber 3, no. 20
Description: 

Original text and translations

Latin text

Rectius vives, Licini, nec altum semper urgendo
neque dum procellas cautus horrescis,
nimium premendo litus iniquum.

Auream quisquis dimeocritatem diligit
tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti,
caret in videnda sobrius aula.

Sæpius ventis agitatur ingens pinus
et celsæ graviore casu decidunt turres,
feriuntque sum mos fulmina montes.

Sperat infestis, metuit secundis
alteram sortem bene præparatum pectus,
informes hyemes reducit Iuppiter, idem submovet.

Non, si male nunc, et olim sic erit,
quondam cithara tacentem suscitat Musam,
neque emperar cum tendit Apollo.

Rebus angustis animosus atque fortis appare,
sapienter idem fortis appare con trahes vento
nimium secundo turgida vela.