Sibylle de l'Hellespont | Pendant que je méditais, un jour j'ai vu orner une jeune fille

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Sibylla Hellespontiaca

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG FIN FRE

Dum meditor quondam, vidi decorare puellam
Eximio castam, quod se servaret honore
Munera digna suo et divino numine visa,
Quae sobolem multo pareret splendore micantem
Progenies summi speciosa et vera tonantis
Pacifica mundum, qui sub ditione gubernet.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from a medieval compilation of Jewish, Christian and pagan sources. [author's text not yet checked 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 Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "Sibylla Hellespontiaca", published 1578, from Prophetiae Sibyllarum, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (David Wyatt) , "The Hellespontine Oracle (of the Dardanelles)", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Sibylle de l'Hellespont", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 37

Sibylle de l'Hellespont

Language: French (Français) after the Latin

Pendant que je méditais, un jour j'ai vu orner une jeune fille
D'un honneur extraordinaire parce qu'elle se gardait pure,
Un don et une vision dignes de sa puissance divine,
Elle qui porterait une lignée brillant d'un grand éclat,
Descendance belle et vraie du Dieu de tonnerre
Qui gouverne le monde sous son pouvoir pacifique.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Latin to French (Français) copyright © 2010 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in Latin by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , from a medieval compilation of Jewish, Christian and pagan sources.
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This text was added to the website: 2010-04-05
Line count: 6
Word count: 55