James Duport Job 42.12

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English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) (English) (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.)

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Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 42.12.1 focus
Ὡς μὲν Ἴωβος ἔπειτα μακάρτερος ἦ τὸ πάρος περ,
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Δὶς τόσον ἀφνειὸς, καὶ δὶς τόσον ὀλβιοδαίμων,
"Ὅσση ἔλεν τὰ πρῶτα, Θεοῦ μεγάλοιο ἕκητι.
"Ἦ γάρ οἱ ἦν μετόπισθε δὶς ἑπτηχίλια μῆλα
Πίονα καὶ δασύμαλλα, καὶ ὑψίλοφοί τε κάμηλοι
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Δὶς τετραχίλιαι αὐτῷ ἐν οὔρεσι βουκολέοντο
Θήλειαι τοκάδες, (τὰ δ' διπλόα πάντα τέτυκτο)
Ζεύγεα δὶς δ' βοῶν πεντήκοσ' εὐρυμετώπων,
Καὶ δὶς ὄνοι πεντηκόσιαι, καὶ πάμπαλα πλείω.
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Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 42.12.1 focus
Ità Jobus poſtea felicior quàm antea,
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Duplo ditior, & duplo fortunatior,
Quàm erat primùm, Dei magni voluntate.
Certè enim ei erant deinceps bis ſepties-mille oves,
Pingues & villoſæ, & elata-colla-habentes cameli
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Bis ter-mille ei in montibus paſcebantur
Fœminæ fœtæ, (duplicia autem omnia facta erant)
Juga autem boum bis quingenta latas-frontes-habentium,
Et bis aſinæ quingentæ, & poſſeſſiones plures.