Metrum 3

Meter: Anapestic dimeter with diaeresis. The last verse is a monometer (- u u - -).

line 3

ueris: ueris . . . duobus: "two truths."
duobus: ueris . . . duobus: "two truths."

line 4

carptim: "in parts, piecemeal."

line 6

6: No diaeresis between halves of verse in this line.

line 9

oppressi luminis igne: for oppressi ignis lumine (transferred epithet: here for metrical reasons). The light of the mind is caecis obruta membris, hence does not shine.

line 11

flagrat: sc. mens.

line 12

notas: "signs, indicators."

line 13

Scitne: "Does [the mind] know [already] . . . ?"

line 14

nota: < nosco.

line 15

caeca: nominative singular.

line 17

nescita: accusative plural, the opposite of nota (line 14).

line 20

mentem: mentem . . . altam: i.e., the divine mind.
altam: mentem . . . altam: i.e., the divine mind.

line 21

summam et singula: "the whole and its parts."

line 22

membrorum: sc. corporis (see note on line 9).
condita: sc. mens humana (from line 8).

line 23

in totum: "completely."
sui: see on 1P2.6.

line 26

neutro: neutro . . . habitu: "in neither condition"; specified in 26-27.
habitu: neutro . . . habitu: "in neither condition"; specified in 26-27.

line 29

alte uisa: "things seen on high."

line 30

seruatis: "to the [parts] retained (i.e., remembered)." Compare the discussion of memory's role in 3M11.