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Dum Dianae vitrea Sero lampas oritur Et a fratris rosea Luce dum succenditur, Dulcis aura Zephyri Spirans omnes aetheri Nubes tollit ; Sic emollit [Vi]1 chordarum pectora, Et immutat Cor quod nutat Ad amoris [pignora]2. [Laetum iubar hesperi Gratiorem Dat humorem Roris soporiferi Mortalium generi.]3 O quam felix est Antidotum soporis, Quod curarum tempestates Sedat et doloris ! Dum surrepit clausis Oculorum poris, Gaudio aequiparat Dulcedini amoris. Morpheus in mentem Trahit impellentem Ventum lenem Segetes maturas, Murmura rivorum Per arenas puras, Circulares ambitus Molendinorum, Qui furantur somno Lumen oculorum.
J. Novák sets stanza 1
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with F.A. Wright, Ed., A Book of Latin Prose and Latin Verse, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1929, Page 199.
1 Novák: "Vis"2 Novák: "pondera"
3 omitted by Novák.
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 12th/13th century ) , no title, appears in Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae, no. 62 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jan Novák (1921 - 1984), "Dianae lampas", stanza 1, from Cantica latina, no. 25 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 35
Word count: 91
When Diana's glass lantern rises in the evening and from her brother's rosy light catches fire, the West Wind's sweet breeze scatters with its breath all the clouds of the sky: so are breasts soothed by music's power, and the heart transformed, that falters under the [pledges]1 of love. [The evening star's luxuriant splendor the most agreeable moisture bestows of sleep-inducing dew upon the race of mortals.]2 O how happy is the remedy of sleep, by which the storms of care and of pain are allayed! When it creeps in by the closed passages of the eyes it rivals in joy the sweetness of love. Into the mind Morpheus draws the gently blowing wind across ripe fields of grain, the murmurs of streams through unsullied sands, the turning round of millhouses, which during sleep steal light from the eyes.
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"Dianae lampas" = "Diana's Lantern"
Note for stanza 3, line 1, "Morpheus": the god of dreams.
1 Novák: "burdens"
2 omitted by Novák.
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in Latin by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title, appears in Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae, no. 62
This text was added to the website: 2025-10-30
Line count: 35
Word count: 141