Preces Quotidianae

Are you sorry?¹ Do you regret it? Are you ashamed? Does it pain you? Do you shudder at it? Are you weary of it?² If not seven times, like David,³ yet three times, like Daniel. 1 not at length, like Solomon,⁴ Yet, like the tax collector, be brief. 1 Not through the whole night, as Christ did—yet for a single hour. If not on the ground, if not in ashes, ( but not in beds. Ps.⁵ lxm.⁶ 6.]⁷ Not in sackcloth, yet not in purple and fine linen either. Not entirely from everything, yet from delicacies.⁸ Not fourfold, like Zacchaeus—Luke⁹ 19.¹⁰ Yet, as the law requires, with a fifth part added. Not like the rich, yet like the widow.¹¹ If not half, yet a thirtieth part.^✦ If¹² not beyond their ability, yet as regards power. 2 Cor.¹³ 8. 3.

Read the original Latin

Pemnitetne? Pigetne? Pudetne? Doletne? Horretne? Twdetne? Si non septies, ut David,

tamen ter, ut Daniel.

1 non, ut Salomon, prolixe, (

tamen ut Publicanus, concise.

1 non per totam noctem, ut Christus, tamen unica hora. Si non humi, si non in cinere, (

tamen non in lectis. Psal. lxm. 6.]

non in sacco, tamen non in purpura et bysso.

non omnino ab ommi, tamen a cupedus.

non, ut Zaccheus, quadruplum, Lwc. xix.

tamen, ut lex est, quinta parte superaddita.

S1 non ut divites, tamen ut vidua. Si

non dimidium, tamen tricesimam partem. Si

non super potentiam,

tamen quoad potentiam. 32 Cor. viii. 3.

Scripture echoes

↩Luke.19.8 — But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, I am giving half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I am paying it back fourfold."

Notes

1 ↩Source surface 'Pemnitetne' is almost certainly a corrupt reading of 'Pœnitetne' / 'Poenitetne' (impersonal poenitet + interrogative -ne).
2 ↩Source surface 'Twdetne' is almost certainly a corrupt reading of 'Tædetne' / 'Taedetne' (impersonal taedet + interrogative -ne).
3 ↩Elliptical continuation into the next section ('still three times, like Daniel'). 'Seven times' almost certainly means seven times a day in the daily-prayer frame of Preces Quotidianae.
4 ↩Source ends with an open parenthesis '(' after prolixe; treated as residual punctuation/fragment marker, not translated as content.
5 ↩Abbreviated citation label (Psal.); expanded to the conventional English short form Ps.
6 ↩Source reads lxm., which is not a standard Roman numeral. Possible corruptions include lxix (69) or another psalm number; left as printed pending source check.
7 ↩Looks like apparatus/section or verse closing matter rather than continuous prose; retained as printed.
8 ↩Latin appears corrupt: ommi read as omni; cupedus read as cupediis (abl. pl. of cupedia, ‘dainties/delicacies’). Sense: not total abstinence from all food, but abstinence from luxury foods—matching the section’s middle-way pattern with the previous clause on sackcloth vs. purple and fine linen.
9 ↩Source 'Lwc.' is almost certainly a corrupted abbreviation of Luc. (Luke); rendered as Luke. Context (quadruplum / Zaccheus) points to Luke 19:8 on fourfold restitution.
10 ↩Roman numeral chapter reference completing the Luc./Luke citation from the previous sentence.
11 ↩Leading 'S1' in the normalized Latin looks like a sentence/section label artifact, not lexical content; translation renders the remaining clause.
12 ↩Latin is only the protasis marker Si; the clause continues in the following section (non super potentiam).
13 ↩Source reads '32 Cor.'; treated as the standard abbreviation '2 Cor.' (2 Corinthians), with the leading '3' taken as a likely print/OCR artifact.

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