Versos French Joachim Du Bellay Cur Vestalibus Innati Sint Velut Quidam Amoris Igniculi

French poem

Cur Vestalibus Innati Sint Velut Quidam Amoris Igniculi

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Æternum extingui Vestæ in penetralibus ignem Romulidum quondam relligio vetuit.

Virginibus sacris nostros hinc mansit in annos, Pectora ut æternis ignibus urat Amor.

Dii faxint, mea vita, tuos hic crescat in ignes Ignis, et ut nostri sis memor usque, precor.

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