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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Potatores exquisiti
Language: Latin 
Potatores exquisiti,
licet sitis sine siti,
et bibatis expediti
et scyphorum inobliti,
scyphi crebro repetiti
non dormiant,
et sermones inauditi
prosiliant.

Qui potare non potestis
ite procul ab his festis,
non est locus hic modestis
Inter letos mos agrestis
modestie,
et est sue certus testis
ignavie.


Si quis latitat hic forte,
qui non curat vinum forte
ostendantur illi porte,
exeat ab hac cohorte:
plus est nobis gravis morte,
si maneat,
si recedat a consorte,
tunc pereat.

Cum contingat te prestare,
ita bibas absque pare,
ut non possis pede stare,
neque recta verba dare,
sed sit tibi salutare
potissimum
semper vas evacuare
quam maximum.

Dea deo ne iungatur,
deam deus aspernatur,
nam qui Liber appellatur
libertate gloriatur,
virtus eius adnullatur
in poculis,
et vinum debilitatur
in copulis.

Cum regina sit in mari,
dea potest appellari,
sed indigna tanto pari,
quem presumat osculari,
nunquam Bacchus adaquari
se voluit,
nec se Liber baptizari
sustinuit.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "Potatores exquisiti" [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):

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  • Also set in English, a translation by Helen Jane Waddell (1889 - 1965) , "To you, consummate drinkers", appears in Medieval Latin Lyrics, first published 1929 ; composed by Gustav Holst.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-04-04
Line count: 47
Word count: 151

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