Preces Quotidianae
Opening Petitions and Call to Servitude
A series of brief petitions for healing, mercy, and a declaration of servitude to God.
Resolutions of the Heart
A list of inner resolutions including vindication, resolve, purpose, longing, zeal, eagerness, and defense.
Vindicate, rescue. Set free, save. I resolve.4 I purpose.5 l.6 I have set, I established. 2. I have desired, I long for.7 9. I long for — longing.8 4. I am zealous — I am jealous for.9 — which.10 I am eager — diligence.11 6. I make my defense — a defense.12
Resolutions of Detachment
Resolutions to turn away, forsake, depart, and declare 'enough'—a commitment to leave behind sin and worldly attachments.
l. I will turn away — ἀποστρέψω.13 3. I will forsake — ἀπολείπειν.14 — (Js. lv. 7.] 1. Which. 4. 3. I will depart.15 . 4. I will say, "It is enough"—sufficient.16 5. Not from now on again.17 No longer.
Read the original Latin
. Sana.
Remissius fac, σῶσον ἀπό.
IV. Servitus.
Vindica, Erue. Libera, Salva. Propono. IIpoatpo. l. Statui, ἔστησα. 2. Conecupivi, ἐπιθυμῶ.
9. Desidero, ἐπιπόθησις. 4. Zelo, ζηλῶ. — ὃ. Studeo, σπουδή. 6. Allego, ἀπολογία.
l. avertam, ἀποστρέψω. 3. derelinquam, ἀπολείπειν. — (Js. lv. 7.] 1.
Quod 4 3. discedam, aóíerac0a. . 4. dicam sufficit, ἀρκετός. 5. non dehine denuo. οὐκέτι.
Notes
- 1 ↩Remissius fac is taken as an imperative petition: ‘deal/act more gently (or more leniently).’ remissius may also mean ‘more mildly/with less severity.’
- 2 ↩σῶσον ἀπό is Greek (‘save from’), but the object of ἀπό is missing in the supplied text; rendering preserves the incomplete sense.
- 3 ↩Latin servitus can mean bondage/slavery or devoted service; rendered as Servitude to fit a prayer-heading register and the following deliverance petitions (Vindica, Erue, Libera, Salva).
- 4 ↩Propono may mean 'I set before myself,' 'I propose,' or 'I resolve'; resolved as a firm personal resolve in this devotional word-list context.
- 5 ↩Source 'IIpoatpo' is not readable Latin/Greek as printed; most plausible recovery beside Propono is Greek προαιρῶ / προαιροῦμαι ('I choose,' 'I purpose').
- 6 ↩Source is only the fragment 'l.'; no secure lemma or sense can be recovered.
- 7 ↩Latin 'Conecupivi' is almost certainly 'Concupivi' (I have desired/coveted); Greek ἐπιθυμῶ is present-tense 'I desire/long for.'
- 8 ↩Latin Desidero is first-person present; Greek ἐπιπόθησις is a noun ('longing/desire'). Rendered as verb + noun gloss to mirror the source pairing.
- 9 ↩Zelo / ζηλῶ can mean either godly zeal or jealous envy; in private-devotion vocabulary the positive 'zealous for' sense is primary, with the Greek verb matching the Latin person/tense.
- 10 ↩Source is fragmentary: em dash + Greek relative ὃ ('which/that which'). Sense is uncertain without fuller context; may be a lemma stub or truncated citation marker.
- 11 ↩Studeo ranges over 'study,' 'be eager,' and 'devote myself'; Greek σπουδή is the noun 'eagerness/diligence/zeal.' Chosen 'I am eager' for the verb and 'diligence' for the gloss.
- 12 ↩Allego can mean 'I allege/adduce' or 'I plead'; paired with ἀπολογία ('defense/apology' in the classical sense), so rendered as pleading a defense rather than modern 'apology' as expression of regret.
- 13 ↩avertam is 1st person singular future of averto: 'I will turn away / turn aside.' Greek ἀποστρέψω matches that future sense.
- 14 ↩derelinquam is 1st person singular future of derelinquo: 'I will forsake / leave behind / abandon.' Greek ἀπολείπειν is the present infinitive 'to leave/forsake,' so the pair is parallel in sense but not identical in tense/mood.
- 15 ↩Latin discedam is clear ('I will depart/withdraw'). Following token 'aóíerac0a' is corrupt OCR, almost certainly a Greek parallel form (cf. neighboring ἀποστρέψω / ἀπολείπειν pattern); not recoverable with confidence.
- 16 ↩ἀρκετός = 'sufficient/enough'; kept as the Greek gloss parallel to Latin sufficit, matching the Latin–Greek entry pattern of this chapter.
- 17 ↩Reading 'dehine' as intended 'dehinc' ('from here on / hereafter'); 'dehine' is not standard classical/late Latin and fits OCR/print error beside denuo.
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