Text
The original lines are:
- Se pareba boves
- alba pratalia araba
- albo versorio teneba
- negro semen seminaba
which translates more or less like this:
- In front of him (he) led oxen
- White fields (he) plowed
- A white plow (he) held
- A black seed (he) sowed
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