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Thread #163314   Message #3895000
Posted By: mg
20-Dec-17 - 07:04 PM
Thread Name: ADD: men and boys (sing for joy?)- Personent Hodie
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: men and boys (sing for joy?)
here you have my best nice catholic girl latin. the verbs seem to be gerunds or something...but i could be wrong..

1. Personent hodie they something today
Voces puerulae,      voices of boys
Laudantes iucunde praises
Qui nobis est natus, whom to us is born
Summo Deo datus,   to highest God given?
Et de virgineo       and out of the virgin
Ventre procreatus.   The creation ???/ exit ?????

2. In mundo nascitur;   in the world born
Pannis involvitur;    bread ??
Praesepi ponitur   ?
Stabulo brutorum    stable
Rector supernorum; king?
Perdidit spolia
Princeps Infernorum.    Prince of infernos

3. Magi tres venerunt;   three magi worship
Munera offerunt;       they offer ??
Parvulum inquirunt,   they inquire ??
Stellulam sequendo, star something?
Ipsum adorando, this I adore?
Aurum, thus et myrrham    gold, ? frankincense I bet and myrhh
Ei offerendo.    I offer to him

4. Omnes clericuli,   all the clerics
Pariter pueri,      something boys
Cantent ut angeli:    sing in order that angels
'Advenisti mundo:   have come to? The world
Laudes tibi fundo    praise to you I something
Ideo: Gloria      therefore Gloria in heights to God
In excelsis Deo'.