help with Latin translation
  • Don9of11Don9of11
    Posts: 708
    I could use some help in translating the following text. If you click on the image, you can see the complete text.
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  • Andrew_Malton
    Posts: 1,187
    “You too, hands of the people, receive, if you may, our verses dismayed by the shame of their rejection." Ovid. Tristia III 1 81 Trans. Wheeler (1939)
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  • MarkB
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    It's a line from Ovid's Tristia, Book III, Poem I, lines 81-82 (the last two):

    You too, ordinary hands, if it’s allowed, take up
    my poetry, dismayed by the shame of its rejection.
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