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Relatio de legatione Constantinopolitana (968 - 970) Liutprand of Cremona |
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5. Cui inquam ego: "Romanam civitatem dominus meus non vi aut tyrannice invasit, sed a tyranni, immo tyrannorum, iugo liberavit. Nonne effoeminati dominabantur eius, et - quod gravius sive turpius - nonne meretrices? Dormiebat, ut puto, tunc potestas tua, immo decessorum tuorum, qui nomine solo, non autem re ipsa imperatores Romanorum vocantur.
Si potentes, si imperatores Romanorum erant, cur Romam in meretricum potestate sinebant? |
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To which I replied: “My lord did not invade the Roman city by force or in a tyrannical way, but rather he freed it from the yoke of the tyrant, or tyrants.16 Were not effeminates lording it over Rome,17 and, what is more serious and sordid, were not whores doing the same? Back then, I think, your power was snoozing, along with that of your predecessors, who in name alone, and not in actual fact, are considered emperors of the Romans. “If they were powerful, if they were emperors of the Romans, why were they leaving Rome to the power of the whores? (Trans. Squatriti, p. 241) |
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(p. 348, lin. 6) |
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