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From: otto@tm.net.my (Otto Steinmayer)
Subject: a piece of neo-latin

I am trying to find who wrote the follwing haunting line, the second verse
of an elegiac couplet:

praesentem narrat quaeliber herba deum.

This was quoted in an English book of 1643.  All I can say about it is that
it is not classical, and not from Buchanan's _Periphraseis Psalmorum_.
Could it be antique Christian?  My guess that it is neo-Latin.

Otto Steinmayer
Institute of East Asian Studies
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak



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