Sunday, November 8, 2020

Feast of Scotus 2020

 Happy feast dear readers!


Here is a link to a terrible song about Scotus for your entertainment. well, they tried at least. 


Here's an old poem that appears in some mss of Scotus' works:



Scotia plange, quia periit tua gloria cara,

Funde precem, confunde necem, tibi cum sit amara.

Troia luit florem de viribus Hectora visum (!).

Sic luo Doctorem iuvenili flore recisum.

Caelum, terra, mare nequeunt similem reparare.

Si quaeras, quare, - probat hae editio clare.

Quam fera, quam nequam sit mors, tribuens tibi legem

Cum reliquis  aequam, rapiens ex ordine regem.

Lux, lex doctorum rex, iudex philosophorum,

Ut documentorum demonstrant dicta suorum.

Fletibus immensis urbs plorat Parisiensis,

Nuda suo flore, solo spoliata decore.

Ergo, legens, plora, quia non huic subfuit hora,

Sed ruit absque mora: pro quo, studens, precora, ora.

3 comments:

Matthew Guertin said...

"thought beyond old boundaries"

Garrett said...

you know, like moldy old Thomism

Matthew said...

Well, sure, but...